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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
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80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE
81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
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87 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
88
89- None
90 Changes since 4.3.0b1
91
92- Tidy up receive packet processing.
93 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
94 a possible patch.
95 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
96
97 Changes since 4.3.0a1
98
99- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
100 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
101 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
102 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
103
104- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
105 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
106
6980ae03 107 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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109- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
110 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
111 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
112 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
113 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
114 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 115 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 116 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 117 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 118 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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120- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
121 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
122 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
123
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124- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
125 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
126 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
127 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 128 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 129
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130- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
131 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
132 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
133 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
134 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
135 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
136
a7341359 137- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 138 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 139
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140- Add support for using classes with v6.
141 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
142
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143- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
144 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
145 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
146 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
147 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
148 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
149 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 150 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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152- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
153 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
154 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
155 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
156 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
157 not recommended.
64fb661c 158 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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160- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
161 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
162 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
163 This is "Server starting service.".
164 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
165 its failover peer are in the normal state.
166 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 167 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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169- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
170 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
171 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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172 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
173 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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174 man page for a description.
175 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
176
e54ff84f 177- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 178 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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179 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
180 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
181 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
182 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
183 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
184
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185- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
186 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
187 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
188 one instance of their respective address types.
189 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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191- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
192 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
193 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
194 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 195 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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196 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
197 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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199- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
200 and take host declarations into account.
201 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
202 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
203
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204- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
205 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
206 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
207 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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209- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
210 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 211 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 213 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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215- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
216 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 217
01a44a77 218- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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220- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
221 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 222
01a44a77 223- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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225- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
226 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
227 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
228 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
229 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
230 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 232- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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234- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
235 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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237- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
238 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
239 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
240 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 241
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242- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
243 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
244 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
245 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
246 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
247 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
248 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
249 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
250 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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252- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
253 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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255! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
256 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
257 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
258 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 259
01a44a77 260- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 261
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262- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
263 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
264 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
265 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
266 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 267
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268- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
269 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
270 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
271 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
272 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
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01a44a77 274- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 275
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276- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
277 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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279- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
280 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
281 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
282 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
283 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
284 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
47e8308d 285
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286- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
287 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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289 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
290 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 291
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292 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
293 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 294
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295 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
296 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 297
01a44a77 298- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 299
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300- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
301 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
302 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
303 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
304 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
305 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 306
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307- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
308 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
309 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
310 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
311 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
312 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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314- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
315 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
316 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 317
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318- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
319 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
320 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
321 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 322
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323- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
324 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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326- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
327 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
328 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 329
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330- Minor code fixes
331 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
332 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
333 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
334 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
335 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
336 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
337 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
338 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
339 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
340 Thanks to Martin Pala.
341 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
342 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 343
01a44a77 344- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 345
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346- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
347 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 348
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349- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
350 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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352- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
353 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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355- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
356 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
357 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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359- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
360 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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362- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
363 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
364 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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366- Fixes to lease input and output.
367 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
368 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
369 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
370 characters.
371 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
372 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 373
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374- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
375 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
376 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
377 at Red Hat.
378 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
379 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
380 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
381 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 382
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383- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
384 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
385 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
386 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 387
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388! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
389 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
390 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
391 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 392
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393- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
394 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
395 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 396
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397- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
398 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
399 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
400 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
401 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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403- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
404 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
405 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
406 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
407 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 408
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410 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
411 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
412 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
413 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
414 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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416- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
417 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
418 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 419
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420- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
421 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
422 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 423
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424- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
425 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
426 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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428- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
429 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
430 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
431 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
432 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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434- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
435 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
436 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
437 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 438
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440 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
441 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
442 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
443 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
444 and reset its timeout value.
445 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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447- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
448 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
449 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
450 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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452 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
453 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
454 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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456- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
457 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
458 when removing the ddns information.
459 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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461- Some fixes for LDAP
462 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
463 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
464 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 465
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466- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
467 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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469! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
470 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
471 interfaces with the OS.
472 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
473 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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475- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
476 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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478- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
479 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
480 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
481 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
482 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
483 in v6 mode at configure time.
484 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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486- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
487 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
488 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 489 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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491- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
492 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
493 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
494 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 495 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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497- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
498 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
499 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
500 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 501 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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503- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
504 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
505 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
506 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 507 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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509- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
510 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 511 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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513- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
514 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
515 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
516 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 517 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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519- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
520 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
521 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
522
523- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
524 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
525 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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527- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
528 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
529 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
530 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
531 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
532 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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534- Documentation fixes
535 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
536 responses to the all-ones address.
537 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
538 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
539
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540- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
541 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
542 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
543 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
544
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545- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
546 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
547
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548- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
549 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
550 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
551
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552- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
553 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
554 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
555 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
556 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
557 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
558 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
559 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
560 enable this except for testing purposes.
561 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
562 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
563
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564- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
565 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
566
567- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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569- Client Script fixes
570 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
571 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
572 the domain search address is link local.
573 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
574 case of the default router information being changed without the address
575 being changed.
576
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577- Documentation cleanup
578 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
579
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580- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
581 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
582
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583- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
584 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
585 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
586 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
587
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588- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
589 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
590 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
591
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592- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
593 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
594
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595- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
596 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
597 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
598 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
599 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
600 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
601
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602- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
603 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
604 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
605 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
606 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
607 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
608 in site.h then server will be terminated
609 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
610
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611! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
612 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
613 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
614 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
615 One CVE number for each class of packet.
616 CVE-2011-2748
617 CVE-2011-2749
618
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619- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
620 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
621 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
622 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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624- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
625 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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627- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
628 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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630- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
631 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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633! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
634 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
635 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
636 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
637 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
638 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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640! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
641 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
642 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
643 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
644 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
645 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
646 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
647 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
648 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
649 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
650 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
651 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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653- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
654 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
655 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
656 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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658- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
659 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
660 from the DNS client code.
661 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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663- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
664 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
665
666- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
667 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
668 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
669 some issues we found in the socket code.
670 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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672- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
673 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
674 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
675 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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677- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
678 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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680- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
681 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
682 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
683 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
684 weren't removed from the DNS.
685 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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687- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
688 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
689 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
690 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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692- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
693 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
694 dynamic bootp clients.
695 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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697- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
698 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
699 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
700 handing it out.
701 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
702 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
703 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
704 for different IAs.
705 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
706 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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708- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
709 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
710 an int as a boolean).
711 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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713- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
714 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
715 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
716 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
717 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
718 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
719 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
720 may be removed in the future.
721 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
722 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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724- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
725 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
726 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
727 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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729- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
730 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
731 report and the first version of the patch.
732 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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734- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
735 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
736 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
737 for reporting this issue.
738 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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740- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
741 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
742 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
743 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
744 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
745 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
746 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
747 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
748 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
749 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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751! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
752 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
753 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
754 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
755 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
756 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
757 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
758 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
759 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
760 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
761 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
762 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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764! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
765 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
766 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
767 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
768 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
769 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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771! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
772 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
773 this issue.
774 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
775 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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777- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
778 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
779 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
780 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
781 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
782 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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784! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
785 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
786 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
787 New Zealand for finding this issue.
788 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
789 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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791- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
792 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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794- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
795 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
796 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
797 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
798 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
799 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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801- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
802 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
803 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
804 freed in other cases.
805 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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807- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
808 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
809 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
810 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
811 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
812 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
813 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
814 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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816- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
817 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
818 and patches.
819 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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821- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
822 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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824- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
825 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
826 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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828- The client now passes information about the options it requested
829 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
830 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
831 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
832 variables.
833 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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835- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
836 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
837 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
838 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
839 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
840 enabling it.
841 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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843- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
844 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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846- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
847 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
848 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
849 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
850 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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852- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
853 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
854 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
855 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
856 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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858- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
859 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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861- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
862 and comment out a currently unused test.
863 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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865- Address static analysis warnings.
866 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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868- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
869 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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871- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
872 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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874- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
875 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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877- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
878 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
879 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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881- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
882 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
883 for the patch.
884 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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886- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
887 objects.
888 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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890- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
891 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
892 to work more consistently.
893 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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895- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
896 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
897 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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899- Update client script for use with openwrt.
900 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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902- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
903 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
904 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
905 for the bug report and a potential patch.
906 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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908- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
909 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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911- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
912 to the clients.
913 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
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915- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
916 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
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919 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
920
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921- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
922 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 923 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 924
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925- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
926 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
927 Cantrell at Red Hat.
928
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929- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
930 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
931
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932- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
933
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934- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
935 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
936 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
937 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
938 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
939 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
940
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941- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
942 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
943 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
944 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
945 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
946 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
947 FQDN options by default).
948
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949- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
950 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
951 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
952 determined lease time) are omitted.
953
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09afca0d 955 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 956 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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957
958- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
959 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
960 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
961
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962 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
963
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964- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
965
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966- Validate the argument to the -p option.
967
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968- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
969 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
970 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
971 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
972 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
973
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974- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
975
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976- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
977 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
978 had been deleted from configuration.
979
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980- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
981 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 982 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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983 were being ignored.
984
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985- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
986
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987- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
988 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
989 Nordahl.
990
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991- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
992 dhcpv6 disabled.
993
8d7dca58 994- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 995 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 996
f4534b17
DH
997- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
998 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
999
f9453d21
DH
1000- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1001 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1002 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1003
1004- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1005 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1006 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1007 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1008 fewer system calls.
1009
a3dcc0b1
DH
1010- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1011 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1012 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1013 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1014 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1015 Christof Chen.
1016
95fd7038
DH
1017- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1018 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1019 and in normal state.
1020
1021- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1022 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1023
8a3c1e33
PS
1024- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1025
1026- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1027 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1028 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1029
dedde1ba
DH
1030- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1031 rather than restarting the listener.
1032
a57df74a
DH
1033- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1034 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1035
1036- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1037 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1038 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1039
350576c5
DH
1040- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1041 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1042 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1043 timeouts).
1044
792156a9
DH
1045- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1046 in failover state records.
1047
8a4e543b
DH
1048! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1049 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1050 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1051 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1052
a1308b64
DH
1053- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1054 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1055
1b12d999
DH
1056- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1057 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1058 last option definition is used.
1059
d453265f
PS
1060- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1061 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1062 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1063
3e29af1e
PS
1064- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1065 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1066
b8d45c67
DH
1067- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1068 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1069 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1070 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1071 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1072 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1073
583c1c16
DH
1074- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1075 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1076 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1077 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1078
e4e3a2ab
DH
1079! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1080 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1081
875e99dc
SR
1082- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1083 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1084
2267da84
DH
1085- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1086 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1087 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1088 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1089 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1090 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1091 configuration.
1092
cd3f0b9b
DH
1093- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1094 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1095
0493fdca
SR
1096- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1097 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1098 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1099 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1100
95bba8b6
SR
1101- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1102 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1103 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1104 was always properly set.
1105
adbef119 1106 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1107
1108- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1109 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1110
a4ffedd1
DH
1111 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1112
1113- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1114 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1115 "abandoned".
1116
6ff3b26d
FD
1117- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1118
1387545f
DH
1119- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1120 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1121
1122- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1123 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1124
1125- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1126 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1127
399d3dbe
DH
1128- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1129
fbcee149
DH
1130- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1131 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1132 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1133 in future releases.
1134
f1672d89
DH
1135- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1136 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1137
236d3a99
DH
1138- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1139 'dhclient -6' support.
1140
efa5e6b9
DH
1141- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1142 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1143 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1144 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1145
7d6180be 1146 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1147
1148- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1149
51e7687f
EH
1150- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1151
20210a7b
EH
1152- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1153 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1154 only the latter. Fixed.
1155
535485df
EH
1156- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1157
8fbb55ff
DH
1158- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1159 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1160
61220a00
EH
1161- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1162
c40e954c
EH
1163- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1164
63971a83
DH
1165- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1166 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1167 --enable-early-chroot.
1168
66cebfcb
DH
1169- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1170 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1171
f8cbf390
DH
1172- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1173 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1174 parameter.
1175
8269561d
DH
1176- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1177 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1178
b445a411
DH
1179- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1180 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1181
bd72740e
FD
1182- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1183
9322442f
FD
1184- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1185
8dea7ba7
FD
1186- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1187
4619c0a2
DH
1188- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1189
9ac4206a
DH
1190- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1191 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1192 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1193
420d8b3f
FD
1194- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1195 support.
1196
40ec5f38
DH
1197- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1198 repaired.
1199
80097764
FD
1200- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1201
ffbaa880
FD
1202- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1203
7de20a95
EH
1204- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1205 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1206
d352732e
EH
1207- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1208 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1209
7d6180be
DH
1210- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1211 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1212
1213- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1214 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1215 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1216 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1217 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1218 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1219 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1220 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1221 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1222 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1223 shared-network.
1224
1225- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1226 configured option values.
1227
1228- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1229 support class statements.
1230
dd484ced
DH
1231- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1232 selection were repaired.
1233
ecddae64
DH
1234- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1235 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1236 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1237 by the OS.
1238
1239- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1240 address.
1241
1242- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1243 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1244
d104d45b
DH
1245- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1246
1247- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1248
1249- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1250 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1251
01a54c17 1252 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1253
6d7f9584
FD
1254- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1255
4cafb815 1256- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1257 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1258
022fe95e
EH
1259- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1260 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1261 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1262
1dcc3612
SK
1263- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1264 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1265
aabfa4de
FD
1266- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1267
0674055a
FD
1268- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1269 reserved IDs avoided).
1270
b51c785f
FD
1271- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1272
900405e9
FD
1273- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1274 carries a rapid-commit option.
1275
96b620e5
FD
1276- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1277 an empty active lease.
1278
be62cf06
FD
1279- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1280
01a54c17
EH
1281- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1282 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1283 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1284 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1285
1286- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1287
1288- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1289 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1290 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1291 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1292 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1293 Christof Chen.
1294
1295 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1296
1297- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1298
1299- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1300 config file but -6 is not specified.
1301
1302- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1303
1304- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1305 be more helpful.
1306
1307- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1308 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1309 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1310
1311- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1312 was repaired.
1313
1314- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1315 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1316 been repaired.
1317
1318- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1319 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1320 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1321
49f61135
DH
1322- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1323 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1324
41d4652f
DH
1325- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1326 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1327 IPv4 address.
1328
2c9bf1f4
DH
1329- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1330 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1331 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1332 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1333 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1334
1335- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1336 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1337 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1338
cff9b78f
SK
1339- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1340
c4d29896
SK
1341- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1342
57fcb8d9
SK
1343- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1344 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1345 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1346 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1347 unnecessary logging.
1348
219a65eb
DH
1349- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1350 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1351
ffdf3c8c
DH
1352- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1353 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1354 is incompatible is printed.
1355
1356- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1357 a previously undefined option code.
1358
00a002fc
MA
1359- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1360 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1361
7e9f7a1b
FD
1362- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1363 than the year 2000.
1364
e2cfde76
FD
1365- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1366
cabdb9b1
FD
1367- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1368
5d89d60f
FD
1369- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1370
61d75ea2
DH
1371 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1372
1373- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1374 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1375 configuration.
76db44f9 1376
e32529a5
EH
1377- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1378 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1379
76db44f9
SK
1380- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1381 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1382 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1383
6f76de58
SK
1384- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1385 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1386 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1387 a requested address.
1388
703873ab
DH
1389- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1390 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1391 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1392 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1393
1394- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1395 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1396 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1397 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1398
b024480e
DH
1399- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1400 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1401 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1402
c0216cb7
DH
1403- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1404 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1405
1ac57173
FD
1406- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1407
83835822
DH
1408- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1409 codes through some conditions.
1410
c54db708
FD
1411- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1412 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1413
e5d83524
DH
1414- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1415 seemingly random values.
1416
821f2dda
DH
1417- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1418
f8b3c6f4
DH
1419- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1420 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1421 one ever has.
1422
b9137d42
SK
1423- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1424 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1425 to a REQUEST.
1426
9f1d5a2f
DH
1427- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1428 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1429 level.
1430
e4a6be15
DH
1431 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1432
65cf86d7
EH
1433- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1434
b1d3778c
DH
1435- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1436 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1437 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1438 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1439 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1440
bead14ea
DH
1441- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1442 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1443 new address.
1444
f765ec36
SK
1445 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1446
75135a3f
EH
1447- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1448 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1449 simultaneously on a single interface.
1450
5c2d55c7
EH
1451- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1452 of service under unusual server configurations
1453
1454- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1455
f765ec36
SK
1456- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1457 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1458
edb1283e
DH
1459- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1460 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1461 on every pool rebalance run.
1462
c71c6399
DH
1463- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1464 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1465
5279b8f3
DH
1466- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1467 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1468
ab3a540f 1469 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1470
884a458f
SK
1471- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1472 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1473
fa9b593d
DH
1474- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1475 point out the problem.
1476
1b5053b5
SK
1477- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1478 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1479 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1480
c886c298
SK
1481- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1482 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1483
eaf7eb17
DH
1484- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1485 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1486 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1487
109e00db
DH
1488- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1489
3ad9d48f
SK
1490- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1491 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1492
8eab95f2
DH
1493- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1494 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1495 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1496 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1497
07b9a351
DH
1498- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1499
7285af30
DH
1500- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1501 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1502 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1503 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1504 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1505
2394b26b
DH
1506- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1507
ab3a540f
SK
1508 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1509
97050349
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1510- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1511 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1512
763cba6b 1513- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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1515- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1516 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1517 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1518
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1519- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1520
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1521- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1522 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1523
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1524- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1525 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1526 loaded from persistent storage.
1527
45d545f0 1528- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1529 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1530 necessary.
1531
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1532- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1533 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1534 rapid-commit option.
1535
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1536- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1537 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1538
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1539 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1540
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1541- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1542 and fix.
1543
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1544- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1545
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1546- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1547
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1548- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1549 for when loading configuration.
1550
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1551- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1552 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1553 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1554
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1555- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1556 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1557 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1558 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1559
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1560- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1561
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1562- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1563 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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1565- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1566
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1567- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1568
1569- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1570 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1571
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1572- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1573 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1574
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1575- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1576
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1577- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1578 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1579
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1580 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1581
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1582- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1583
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1584- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1585 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1586
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1587- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1588
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1589- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1590 initialized.
1591
1592- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1593
1594- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1595 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1596
1597- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1599- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1600
1601- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1602 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1603
1604- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1605
8ea19a71 1606- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1607 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1608
1609- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1610 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1611
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1612- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1613
1614- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1615
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1616- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1617
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1618 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1619
1620- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1621 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1622 no support currently for both.
1623
1624- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1625 IAADDR option.
1626
1627- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1628 options.
1629
1630- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1631
1632- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1633 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1634
1635- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1636 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1637 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1638
1639- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1640 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1641
1642- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1643 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1644 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1645 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1646 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1647 differently, they both use the same code here).
1648
1649- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1650 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1651 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1652
1653- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1654
1655- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1656 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1657 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1658 it should not intercept.
1659
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1660 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1661
1662- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1663 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1664 between primary and secondary.
1665
1666- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1667 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1668 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1669
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1670- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1671
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1672- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1673 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1674 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1675 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1676 or REQUEST messages.
1677
1678- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1679 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1680
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1681- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1682
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1683 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1684
1685- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1686 failover protected subnets was removed.
1687
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1688 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1689
1690- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1691 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1692 odd number of leases).
1693
1694- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1695 rebalance run, and one after.
1696
1697- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1698 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1699 processing these messages.
1700
fe5b0fdd 1701 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1702
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1703- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1704 objects.
1705
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1706- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1707 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1708 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1709 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1710 at Allianz.
1711
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1712- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1713 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1714
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1715- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1716 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1717
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1718- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1719 caused the server to abort.
1720
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1721- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1722 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1723 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1724
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1725- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1726 by empty spaces would not get included.
1727
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1728- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1729 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1730
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1731- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1732 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1733
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1734- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1735 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1736
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1737- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1738 on the parameter request list.
1739
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1740 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1741
1742- Some spelling fixes.
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1744 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1745
1746- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1747 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1748
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1749- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1750 domain-search option syntax.
1751
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1752 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1753
1754- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1755 hash table was repaired.
1756
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1757- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1758 entering normal state.
1759
1760- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1761 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1762 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1763
1764- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1765 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1767- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1768 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1769 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1770 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1771
45d545f0 1772- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1773 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1774 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1775 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1776 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1777 to their needs.
1778
1779- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1780 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1781 run will attempt balance.
1782
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1783- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1784
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1785 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1786
1787- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1788 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1789 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1790 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1791
98bd7ca0 1792- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1793 was introduced.
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1794
1795- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1796 via OMAPI.
1797
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1798- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1799 the protocol draft.
1800
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1801- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1802 one does not already exist on the system.
1803
b43c87ad 1804- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1805
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1806- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1807 matches RFC 3074.
1808
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1809- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1810 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1811 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1813- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1814 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1815 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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1817- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1818 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1819 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1820 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1821
1822- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1823 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1824 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1825 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1826
f7fdb216 1827- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1828 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1829 DHCPv6 support.
1830
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1831- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1832 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1833 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1834
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1835- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1836 have been incorporated.
1837
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1838- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1839 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1840 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1841 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1842 that belong to the peer in need.
1843
1844- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1845 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1846
1847- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1848 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1849 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1850
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1851- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1852 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1853
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1854- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1855 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1856 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1857 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1858 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1859
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1860- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1861 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1862 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1863 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1864
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1865- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1866 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1867 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1868 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1869 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1870 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1871 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1872 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1873 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1874
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1875- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1876 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1877
41e45067 1878- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1879 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1880 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1881 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1882
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1883- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1884 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1885 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1886 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1887
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1888- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1889 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1890 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1891 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1892 via Robin Breathe.
1893
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1894- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1895 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1896 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1897 from Christof Chen.
1898
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1899- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1900 formally supported.
1901
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1902 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1903
1904- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1905 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1906
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1907 Changes since 3.0.5
1908
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1909- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1910 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1911 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1912 they actually received.
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1913
1914- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1915
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1916- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1917 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1918 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1919 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1920
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1921- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1922
d69fb6a8 1923- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1924 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1925
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1926- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1927 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1928 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1929 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1930 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1931 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1932 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1933 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1934
1935- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1936 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1937 'file' field.
02428754 1938
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1939- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1940 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1941
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1942- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1943 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1944 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1945
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1946- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1947 from Chris Wagner.
1948
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1949- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1950 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1951 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1952
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1953- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1954 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1955 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1956 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1957 was set.
1958
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1959- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1960 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1961
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1962- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1963 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1964 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1965 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1966 active ones.
1967
02428754 1968 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1969
901306d5 1970- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1971 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1972 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1973 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1974 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1975
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1976- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1977 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1978
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1979 Changes since 3.0.4
1980
1981- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1982 scopes are actually global has been added.
1983
1984- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1985 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1986 known to be damaging.
1987
1988- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1989 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1990 balancing).
1991
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1992- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1993 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1994 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1995
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1996- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1997 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1998 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1999
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2000- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2001 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2002 more clear now.
2003
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2004- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2005 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2006 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2007 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2008 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2009 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2010
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2011- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2012 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2013
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2014- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2015 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2016 made possible.
2017
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2018- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2019 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2020 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2021
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2022- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2023 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2024
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2025- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2026 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2027 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2028
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2029- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2030 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2031 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2032 value with the later configured value).
2033
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2034- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2035 have been named and documented.
2036
2037- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2038 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2039 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2040 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2041 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2042 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2043 write new output.
2044
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2045 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2046
2047- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2048 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2049
2050 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2051
2052- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2053 mailing list.
2054
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2055 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2056
45d545f0 2057- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2058 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2059
2060- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2061 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2062
2063- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2064 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2065 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2066 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2067
2068- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2069 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2070 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2071 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2072 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2073 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2074 transition (properly).
2075
2076- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2077
2078 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2079
2080- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2081 STDIN after reading one line.
2082
2083- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2084 descriptor it opened twice.
2085
2086- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2087 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2088 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2089
2090 Changes since 3.0.3
2091
2092- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2093 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2094 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2095
2096- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2097 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2098 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2099
2100- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2101 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2102 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2103 leases to allocate.
2104
2105- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2106 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2107 than the entire block of them.
2108
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2109! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2110 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2111 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2112 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2113 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2114 to a patch from infamous42md.
2115
2116! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2117 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2118 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2119 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2120 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2121 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2122
2123- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2124 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2125 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2126
2127- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2128 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2129
2130- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2131 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2132 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2133 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2134 transitional states.
2135
2136- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2137 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2138 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2139
2140- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2141 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2142 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2143
2144- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2145 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2146
2147- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2148 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2149
2150- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2151 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2152 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2153
2154- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2155 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2156
2157- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2158 repaired.
2159
2160- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2161 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2162 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2163 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2164
2165- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2166 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2167 data.
2168
2169- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2170 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2171 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2172 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2173 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2174
2175- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2176 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2177 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2178 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2179 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2180
2181- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2182 has been repaired.
2183
2184- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2185 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2186 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2187 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2188 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2189
2190- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2191 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 2193- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2194 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2195 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2196 move to 3.[01].x.
2197
2198- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2199 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2200
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2201 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2202
2203- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2204 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2205
2206- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2207 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2208 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2209 workaround.
2210
2211 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2212
2213- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2214 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2215
2216 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2217
2218- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2219 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2220 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2221
2222- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2223 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2224 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2225
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2226 Changes since 3.0.2
2227
2228- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2229 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2230 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2231
2232- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2233 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2234 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2235 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2236 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2237
2238- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2239 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2240 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2241
2242- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2243 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2244 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2245
2246- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2247 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2248 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2249 Peter Poeml.
2250
2251- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2252 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2253
2254- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2255 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2256 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2257 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2258 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2259 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2260
2261- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2262 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2263 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2264 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2265
2266- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2267 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2268 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2269 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2270
2271- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2272 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2273
2274- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2275 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2276 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2277
2278- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2279 7 bytes, and failover.
2280
2281- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2282 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2283 at Red Hat.
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2284
2285- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2286 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2287 should work better.
2288
2289- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2290 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2291 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2292
2293- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2294 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2295 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2296
2297 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2298
2299- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2300 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2301
2302 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2303
45d545f0 2304- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2305 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2306 overloading. This was repaired.
2307
2308- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2309 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2310 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2311 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2312 three chunks to fit.
2313
2314- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2315 were repaired.
2316
2317- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2318 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2319 leak).
2320
2321 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2322
2323- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2324 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2325
2326 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2327
2328- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2329
2330 Changes since 3.0.1
2331
2332- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2333 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2334 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2335
2336- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2337 name was not provided by the server.
2338
2339- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2340 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2341
2342- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2343 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2344
2345- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2346 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2347
2348- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2349
2350- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2351
2352- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2353 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2354 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2355 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2356 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2357
2358- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2359 the configuration be globally scoped.
2360
2361- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2362 Farkas.
2363
2364- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2365 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2366
2367- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2368 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2369
2370- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2371 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2372
2373- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2374 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2375 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2376 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2377
2378- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2379 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2380 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2381 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2382
2383- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2384 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2385 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2386
2387- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2388
2389- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2390 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2391 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2392
2393- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2394 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2395 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2396 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2397 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2398
2399- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2400 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2401
2402- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2403 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2404
2405- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2406 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2407 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2408 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2409
2410- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2411 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2412
2413- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2414 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2415 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2416
2417- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2418 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2419 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2420 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2421 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2422 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2423
2424- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2425 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2426 Infoblox.
2427
2428- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2429
2430- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2431 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2432 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2433 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2434 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2435 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2436 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2437
2438- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2439 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2440 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2441
2442- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2443 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2444 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2445
2446- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2447
2448 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2449
2450- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2451 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2452 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2453 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2454 systems either.
2455
2456- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2457
2458- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2459 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2460 is false.
2461
2462- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2463 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2464
2465- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2466
2467 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2468
2469! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2470 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2471 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2472 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2473 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2474 both finding and solving the problem.
2475
2476! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2477 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2478 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2479 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2480 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2481 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2482 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2483 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2484 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2485 published version of ISC DHCP.
2486
2487- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2488
2489- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2490
2491 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2492
2493- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2494 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2495 Richard Hirst.
2496
2497- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2498 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2499 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2500
2501- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2502
2503- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2504 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2505 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2506 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2507
2508- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2509 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2510
2511- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2512 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2513
2514- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2515
2516 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2517
2518- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2519 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2520
2521- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2522 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2523 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2524
2525- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2526 by name was fixed.
2527
45d545f0 2528- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2529 longer result in error.
2530
2531- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2532
2533- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2534 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2535 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2536
2537- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2538 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2539
2540- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2541 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2542 Blapp.
2543
2544- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2545 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2546 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2547 Martin Blapp.
2548
2549- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2550 expiry times in failover configurations.
2551
2552- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2553 Steve G.
2554
2555- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2556 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2557
2558- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2559 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2560 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2561 now "unknown-144".
2562
2563- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2564 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2565
2566 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2567
2568- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2569
2570- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2571 not be bash.
2572
2573- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2574
2575- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2576 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2577 that errored before will now work properly.
2578
2579- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2580 names was repaired.
2581
2582- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2583 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2584 configuration file.
2585
2586- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2587 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2588
2589- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2590 error rather than a null dereference.
2591
2592 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2593
2594- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2595
2596- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2597
2598- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2599 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2600
2601- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2602
2603- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2604
2605- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2606 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2607 self-corrupting lease databases.
2608
2609- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2610
2611- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2612 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2613
2614- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2615
2616- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2617
2618- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2619 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2620 Ling Gou.
2621
2622- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2623 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2624
2625- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2626 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2627 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2628
2629- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2630 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2631
2632 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2633
2634- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2635 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2636
2637- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2638
2639- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2640 a memory leak.
2641
2642- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2643 script.
2644
2645- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2646
2647- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2648
2649- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2650
2651- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2652
2653- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2654
2655- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2656
2657- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2658
2659- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2660
2661- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2662
2663- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2664
2665- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2666
2667- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2668
2669 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2670
2671- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2672 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2673 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2674
2675 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2676
2677- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2678 to be renewed.
2679
2680- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2681 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2682
2683- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2684 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2685
2686- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2687 that two permit lists matched.
2688
2689- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2690 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2691
2692- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2693
2694- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2695 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2696
2697- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2698
2699- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2700
2701- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2702 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2703 going to update its A record.
2704
2705- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2706 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2707 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2708 DNS server.
2709
2710- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2711
2712- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2713
2714- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2715 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2716 NetBSD project).
2717
2718- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2719 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2720
2721- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2722 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2723
2724- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2725
2726- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2727
2728- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2729 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2730 failover protocol standard.
2731
2732- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2733 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2734 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2735
2736- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2737 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2738 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2739 do so.
2740
2741- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2742
2743 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2744
2745- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2746
2747- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2748 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2749
2750- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2751 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2752
2753- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2754 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2755 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2756
2757- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2758 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2759 network, merge the two pools.
2760
2761- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2762 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2763 fix this bug.
2764
2765 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2766
2767- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2768 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2769
2770- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2771 the same case.
2772
2773- Additional documentation.
2774
2775- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2776 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2777
2778 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2779
2780- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2781- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2782
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2784
2785- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2786 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2787 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2788 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2789 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2790
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2792
2793- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2794 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2795 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2796 wasn't the one that removed it.
2797
2798- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2799 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2800 were not configured.
2801
2802- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2803
2804- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2805 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2806 routing information.
2807
2808- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2809 request being sent.
2810
2811- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2812 done.
2813
2814- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2815 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2816 were pending.
2817
2818- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2819 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2820 problems with failover.
2821
2822- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2823 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2824 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2825
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2827
2828- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2829 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2830
2831- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2832 no object is open, it dumps core.
2833
2834- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2835
2836- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2837
2838- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2839
2840- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2841 a host object attribute with a null value.
2842
2843 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2844
2845- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2846
2847- Fix an obscure core dump.
2848
2849- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2850 when crucial information is left out.
2851
2852- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2853
2854- Documentation updates.
2855
2856 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2857
2858- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2859
2860- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2861 structure wasn't zeroed.
2862
2863- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2864 incorrectly.
2865
2866- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2867 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2868 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2869 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2870 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2871 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2872 restarted.
2873
2874 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2875
2876- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2877 in failover-enabled pools.
2878
2879- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2880 declarations).
2881
2882- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2883 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2884
2885- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2886 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2887
2888- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2889
2890- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2891 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2892
2893- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2894
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2896
2897- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2898
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2899 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2900
2901- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2902
2903- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2904
2905- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2906
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2907 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2908
2909- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2910 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2911 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2912
2913- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2914 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2915 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2916 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2917 string.
2918
2919- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2920
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2921 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2922
2923- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2924 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2925
2926- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2927 malformed packets.
2928
2929- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2930
2931- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2932 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2933 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2934
2935- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2936
2937- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2938
2939- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2940
2941- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2942 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2943
2944- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2945 tcp connections from being played back.
2946
2947- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2948 on exit.
2949
2950- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2951
2952- Add some configurability to the build system.
2953
2954- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2955
2956- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2957 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2958 hadn't been noticed until now.
2959
2960 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2961
2962- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2963 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2964
2965- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2966 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2967 conformant, but also didn't work).
2968
2969- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2970 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2971
2972- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2973 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2974
2975- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2976 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2977
2978- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2979 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2980
2981- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2982 doing failover.
2983
2984- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2985 running on alpha processors.
2986
2987- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2988 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2989
2990- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2991
2992- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2993
2994- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2995 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2996
2997- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2998
2999- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3000 actually named (key names are domain names).
3001
3002- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3003
3004- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3005 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3006
3007- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3008 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3009
3010- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3011 statements.
3012
3013- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3014 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3015
3016- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3017 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3018 operating.
3019
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3020 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3021
3022- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3023 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3024 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3025 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3026
3027- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3028 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3029
3030- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3031
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3032 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3033
3034- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3035 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3036
3037- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3038 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3039 to the chain.
3040
3041- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3042
3043- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3044
3045- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3046
98311e4b 3047- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3048 attribute values in omshell.
3049
98311e4b 3050- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3051
3052- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3053
3054 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3055
3056- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3057 DHCPDECLINE.
3058
3059- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3060
3061- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3062 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3063 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3064
3065- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3066
3067- Documentation fixes.
3068
3069- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3070 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3071
3072- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3073 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3074
3075- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3076
3077- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3078
3079- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3080 case-insensitive.
3081
3082- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3083
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3085 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3086 consistently.
3087
3088- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3089 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3090
3091- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3092
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3093 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3094
3095- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3096 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3097 result of duplicate leases.
3098
3099- Document OMAPI server objects.
3100
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3101 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3102
3103- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3104 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3105
3106- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3107 core dumps.
3108
3109- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3110 Friedrich.
3111
3112- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3113
3114 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3115
3116- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3117 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3118 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3119 billing class code.
3120
3121- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3122 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3123
3124- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3125 trace file.
3126
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3129- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3130 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3131 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3132 e.g., Digital Unix.
3133
3134- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3135 when no error had occurred.
3136
3137- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3138 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3139 non-communicating state.
3140
3141- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3142
3143- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3144 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3145 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3146
3147- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3148 when the client lease expired.
3149
3150- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3151 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3152 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3153 in testing.
3154
3155- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3156 the command line, it would fail.
3157
3158- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3159 user impact).
3160
3161- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3162
3163- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3164 they're executable.
3165
3166 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3167
3168- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3169 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3170 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3171 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3172
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3173- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3174 Transmeta.
3175
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3176- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3177 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3178 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3179 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3180
3181- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3182 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3183
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3184 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3185
3186- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3187 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3188
3189- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3190
3191- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3192
3193- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3194
3195- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3196
3197- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3198
3199- Update some parts of the README file.
3200
3201- Support GCC on SCO.
3202
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3204
3205- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3206 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3207
3208- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3209 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3210 unbill the old class.
3211
3212- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3213 process the state transition immediately.
3214
3215- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3216 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3217
3218- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3219
3220- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3221
3222- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3223
3224- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3225
3226- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3227 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3228 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3229
3230- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3231 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3232
3233- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3234 lease file.
3235
3236- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3237
3238- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3241
3242- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3243 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3244
3245- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3246
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3248
3249- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3250
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3252
3253- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3254
3255- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3256 pl19.
3257
3258- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3259 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3260 past the regression test.
3261
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3263
3264- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3265 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3266
3267- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3268 DHCPREQUEST.
3269
3270- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3271
3272- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3273
3274- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3275
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3278- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3279 (Damien Neil)
3280
3281- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3282 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3283
3284- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3285 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3286 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3287
3288- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3289 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3290 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3291 message.
3292
3293- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3294 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3295 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3296
98311e4b 3297- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3298 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3299 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3300 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3301 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3302 this way will work.
3303
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3304- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3305
3306- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3307 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3308 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3309 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3310
3311 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3312
3313 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3314
3315- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3316 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3317 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3318
3319- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3320 Hermann Lauer.
3321
3322- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3323 messages.
3324
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3325- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3326 it contained quoted strings.
3327
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3328 ** there was no pl17 **
3329
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3332- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3333 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3334 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3335 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3336 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3337 tracking down memory leaks.
3338
3339- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3340 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3341 Solaris.
3342
3343- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3344 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3345 corruption and core dumps.
3346
3347- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3348 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3349
3350- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3351
3352- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3353 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3354
3355- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3356 name and version to standard output.
3357
3358- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3359
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3360- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3361 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3362
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3363- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3364
3365- Lots of documentation updates.
3366
3367- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3368 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3369
3370- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3371
3372- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3373 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3374
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3376
3377- Some documentation tweaks.
3378
3379- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3380
3381- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3382
3383- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3384 agent options into them.
3385
3386- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3387
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3388- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3389 options.
3390
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3392
3393- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3394 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3395 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3396 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3397 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3398
3399- Fix up documentation.
3400
3401- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3402 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3403
3404- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3405
3406- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3407
3408- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3409 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3410 practical use otherwise.
3411
3412- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3413 for debugging.
3414
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3416
3417- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3418 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3419 dump on some systems.
3420
3421- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3422 option.
3423
3424- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3425 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3426
3427- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3428 that were not printing enough information.
3429
3430- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3431 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3432
3433- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3434 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3435 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3436 were answering.
3437
3438- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3439 the transition.
3440
3441
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3443
3444- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3445
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3446 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3447
3448- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3449 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3450 representation from working correctly.
3451
3452- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3453 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3454 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3455 could spin.
3456
3457- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3458 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3459
3460- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3461 interface name on the command line.
3462
3463- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3464 client state.
3465
3466- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3467 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3468 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3469 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3470 added by Ted Lemon.
3471
3472- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3473 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3474
3475- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3476 end option.
3477
3478- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3479 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3480 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3481
3482- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3483 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3484 face of a null hardware address on input.
3485
3486- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3487 specified unqualified.
3488
3489- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3490 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3491
3492- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3493 RFC.
3494
3495- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3496
3497- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3498
3499- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3500 it works.
3501
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3502 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3503
3504- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3505 to CVS.
3506
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3507 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3508
3509- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3510
3511- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3512 in patchlevel 9.
3513
3514- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3515 options at renewal time.
3516
3517- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3518 configuration language.
3519
3520- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3521
3522- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3523 done when no client hostname was received.
3524
3525- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3526
3527- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3528 the DHCP option space.
3529
3530- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3531
3532- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3533 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3534
3535- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3536 silently dropped.
3537
3538- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3539 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3540
3541- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3542 will be correctly updated.
3543
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3544 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3545
3546- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3547 bounds-checking.
3548
3549 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3550
3551- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3552
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3555- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3556 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3557 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3558
3559- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3560 option.
3561
3562- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3563 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3564 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3565 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3566 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3567 meaningfully.
3568
3569- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3570 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3571 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3572
3573- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3574 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3575 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3576 this one down!
3577
3578- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3579 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3580 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3581 down and fixing this problem.
3582
3583 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3584
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3585- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3586 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3587
3588- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3589 environment.
3590
3591- Fix suffix operator.
3592
3593- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3594
3595- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3596 connection code.
3597
3598- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3599
3600- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3601
3602- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3603 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3604
3605- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3606
3607- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3608
3609- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3610 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3611
3612- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3613 spawn with.
3614
3615- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3616 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3617
3618- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3619 for OMAPI.
3620
3621- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3622 can install in host declarations.
3623
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3624 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3625
3626- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3627 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3628 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3629 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3630 comments)!
3631
3632- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3633
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3634- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3635 request for help on this with patches!
3636
3637- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3638 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3639 lost, they never reconnect.
3640
3641- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3642 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3643
3644- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3645 dump.
3646
3647- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3648 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3649 catching this one.
3650
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3651 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3652
3653- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3654 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3655 lease renewal time.
3656
3657- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3658 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3659 declared without a key.
3660
3661- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3662
3663- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3664 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3665
3666- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3667 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3668 determine the maximum size of the response.
3669
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3670 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3671
359b023e
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3672- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3673 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3674
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3675- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3676 RENEWING client.
3677
3678- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3679
3680- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3681 using memcmp().
3682
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3683 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3684
3685- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3686 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3687 pointing this out.
3688
3689- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3690 exit.
3691
3692- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3693
3694- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3695 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.