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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
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80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE
81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
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87- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID
88 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
89 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
90 option in the list.
91 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
92
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93- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
94 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
95 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 96 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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98- Remove unused RCSID tags.
99 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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101- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
102 for MRT limit it to MRD.
103 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
104 [ISC-Bugs #21238
105
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106- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
107 when a server, relay or client are killed.
108 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
109 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
110
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111 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
112
113- None
114 Changes since 4.3.0b1
115
116- Tidy up receive packet processing.
117 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
118 a possible patch.
119 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
120
121 Changes since 4.3.0a1
122
123- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
124 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
125 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
126 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
127
128- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
129 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
130
6980ae03 131 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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133- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
134 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
135 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
136 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
137 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
138 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 139 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 140 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 141 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 142 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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144- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
145 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
146 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
147
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148- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
149 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
150 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
151 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 152 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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154- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
155 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
156 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
157 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
158 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
159 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
160
a7341359 161- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 162 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
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164- Add support for using classes with v6.
165 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
166
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167- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
168 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
169 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
170 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
171 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
172 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
173 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 174 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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176- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
177 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
178 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
179 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
180 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
181 not recommended.
64fb661c 182 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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184- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
185 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
186 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
187 This is "Server starting service.".
188 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
189 its failover peer are in the normal state.
190 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 191 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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193- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
194 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
195 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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196 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
197 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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198 man page for a description.
199 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
200
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80778e94 202 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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203 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
204 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
205 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
206 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
207 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
208
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209- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
210 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
211 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
212 one instance of their respective address types.
213 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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215- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
216 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
217 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
218 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 219 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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220 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
221 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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223- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
224 and take host declarations into account.
225 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
226 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
227
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228- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
229 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
230 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
231 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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233- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
234 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 235 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 237 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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239- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
240 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 241
01a44a77 242- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 243
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244- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
245 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 246
01a44a77 247- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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249- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
250 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
251 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
252 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
253 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
254 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 256- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 257
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258- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
259 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 260
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261- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
262 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
263 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
264 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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266- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
267 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
268 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
269 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
270 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
271 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
272 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
273 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
274 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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276- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
277 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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279! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
280 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
281 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
282 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 283
01a44a77 284- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 285
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286- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
287 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
288 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
289 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
290 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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292- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
293 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
294 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
295 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
296 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 297
01a44a77 298- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 299
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300- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
301 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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303- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
304 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
305 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
306 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
307 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
308 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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310- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
311 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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313 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
314 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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316 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
317 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 318
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319 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
320 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 321
01a44a77 322- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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324- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
325 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
326 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
327 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
328 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
329 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 330
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331- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
332 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
333 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
334 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
335 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
336 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 337
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338- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
339 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
340 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 341
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342- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
343 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
344 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
345 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 346
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347- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
348 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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350- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
351 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
352 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 353
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354- Minor code fixes
355 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
356 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
357 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
358 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
359 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
360 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
361 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
362 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
363 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
364 Thanks to Martin Pala.
365 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
366 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 367
01a44a77 368- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 369
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370- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
371 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
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373- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
374 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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376- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
377 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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379- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
380 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
381 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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383- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
384 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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386- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
387 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
388 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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390- Fixes to lease input and output.
391 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
392 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
393 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
394 characters.
395 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
396 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 397
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398- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
399 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
400 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
401 at Red Hat.
402 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
403 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
404 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
405 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 406
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407- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
408 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
409 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
410 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
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413 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
414 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
415 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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417- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
418 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
419 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 420
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421- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
422 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
423 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
424 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
425 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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427- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
428 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
429 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
430 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
431 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 432
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434 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
435 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
436 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
437 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
438 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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440- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
441 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
442 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 443
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444- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
445 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
446 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 447
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448- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
449 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
450 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 451
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452- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
453 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
454 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
455 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
456 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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458- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
459 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
460 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
461 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 462
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463! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
464 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
465 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
466 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
467 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
468 and reset its timeout value.
469 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
470
471- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
472 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
473 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
474 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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477 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
478 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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480- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
481 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
482 when removing the ddns information.
483 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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485- Some fixes for LDAP
486 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
487 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
488 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 489
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490- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
491 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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493! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
494 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
495 interfaces with the OS.
496 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
497 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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499- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
500 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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502- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
503 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
504 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
505 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
506 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
507 in v6 mode at configure time.
508 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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510- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
511 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
512 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 513 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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515- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
516 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
517 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
518 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 519 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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521- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
522 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
523 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
524 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 525 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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527- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
528 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
529 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
530 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 531 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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533- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
534 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 535 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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537- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
538 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
539 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
540 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 541 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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543- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
544 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
545 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
546
547- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
548 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
549 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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551- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
552 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
553 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
554 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
555 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
556 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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558- Documentation fixes
559 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
560 responses to the all-ones address.
561 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
562 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
563
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564- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
565 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
566 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
567 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
568
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569- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
570 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
571
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572- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
573 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
574 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
575
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576- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
577 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
578 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
579 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
580 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
581 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
582 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
583 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
584 enable this except for testing purposes.
585 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
586 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
587
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588- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
589 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
590
591- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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593- Client Script fixes
594 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
595 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
596 the domain search address is link local.
597 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
598 case of the default router information being changed without the address
599 being changed.
600
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601- Documentation cleanup
602 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
603
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604- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
605 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
606
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607- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
608 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
609 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
610 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
611
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612- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
613 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
614 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
615
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616- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
617 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
618
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619- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
620 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
621 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
622 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
623 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
624 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
625
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626- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
627 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
628 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
629 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
630 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
631 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
632 in site.h then server will be terminated
633 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
634
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635! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
636 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
637 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
638 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
639 One CVE number for each class of packet.
640 CVE-2011-2748
641 CVE-2011-2749
642
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643- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
644 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
645 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
646 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 647
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648- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
649 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 650
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651- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
652 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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654- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
655 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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657! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
658 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
659 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
660 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
661 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
662 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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664! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
665 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
666 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
667 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
668 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
669 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
670 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
671 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
672 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
673 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
674 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
675 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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677- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
678 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
679 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
680 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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682- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
683 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
684 from the DNS client code.
685 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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687- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
688 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
689
690- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
691 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
692 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
693 some issues we found in the socket code.
694 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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696- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
697 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
698 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
699 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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701- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
702 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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704- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
705 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
706 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
707 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
708 weren't removed from the DNS.
709 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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711- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
712 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
713 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
714 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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716- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
717 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
718 dynamic bootp clients.
719 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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721- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
722 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
723 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
724 handing it out.
725 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
726 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
727 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
728 for different IAs.
729 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
730 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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732- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
733 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
734 an int as a boolean).
735 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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737- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
738 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
739 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
740 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
741 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
742 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
743 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
744 may be removed in the future.
745 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
746 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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748- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
749 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
750 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
751 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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753- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
754 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
755 report and the first version of the patch.
756 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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758- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
759 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
760 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
761 for reporting this issue.
762 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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764- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
765 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
766 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
767 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
768 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
769 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
770 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
771 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
772 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
773 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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775! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
776 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
777 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
778 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
779 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
780 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
781 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
782 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
783 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
784 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
785 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
786 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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788! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
789 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
790 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
791 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
792 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
793 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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795! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
796 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
797 this issue.
798 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
799 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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801- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
802 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
803 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
804 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
805 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
806 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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808! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
809 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
810 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
811 New Zealand for finding this issue.
812 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
813 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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815- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
816 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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818- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
819 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
820 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
821 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
822 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
823 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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825- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
826 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
827 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
828 freed in other cases.
829 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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831- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
832 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
833 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
834 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
835 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
836 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
837 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
838 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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840- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
841 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
842 and patches.
843 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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845- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
846 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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848- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
849 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
850 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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852- The client now passes information about the options it requested
853 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
854 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
855 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
856 variables.
857 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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859- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
860 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
861 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
862 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
863 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
864 enabling it.
865 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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867- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
868 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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870- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
871 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
872 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
873 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
874 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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876- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
877 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
878 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
879 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
880 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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882- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
883 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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885- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
886 and comment out a currently unused test.
887 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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889- Address static analysis warnings.
890 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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892- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
893 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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895- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
896 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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898- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
899 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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901- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
902 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
903 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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905- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
906 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
907 for the patch.
908 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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910- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
911 objects.
912 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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914- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
915 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
916 to work more consistently.
917 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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919- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
920 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
921 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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923- Update client script for use with openwrt.
924 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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926- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
927 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
928 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
929 for the bug report and a potential patch.
930 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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932- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
933 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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935- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
936 to the clients.
937 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
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939- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
940 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
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943 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
944
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945- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
946 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 947 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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949- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
950 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
951 Cantrell at Red Hat.
952
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953- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
954 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
955
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956- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
957
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958- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
959 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
960 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
961 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
962 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
963 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
964
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965- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
966 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
967 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
968 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
969 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
970 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
971 FQDN options by default).
972
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973- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
974 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
975 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
976 determined lease time) are omitted.
977
98bf1607 978- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 979 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 980 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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982- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
983 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
984 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
985
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986 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
987
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988- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
989
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990- Validate the argument to the -p option.
991
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992- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
993 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
994 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
995 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
996 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
997
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998- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
999
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1000- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1001 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1002 had been deleted from configuration.
1003
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SR
1004- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1005 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1006 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1007 were being ignored.
1008
64e1823d
DH
1009- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1010
26e59ee9
DH
1011- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1012 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1013 Nordahl.
1014
70ea9345
PS
1015- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1016 dhcpv6 disabled.
1017
8d7dca58 1018- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1019 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1020
f4534b17
DH
1021- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1022 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1023
f9453d21
DH
1024- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1025 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1026 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1027
1028- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1029 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1030 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1031 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1032 fewer system calls.
1033
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DH
1034- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1035 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1036 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1037 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1038 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1039 Christof Chen.
1040
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DH
1041- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1042 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1043 and in normal state.
1044
1045- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1046 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1047
8a3c1e33
PS
1048- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1049
1050- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1051 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1052 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1053
dedde1ba
DH
1054- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1055 rather than restarting the listener.
1056
a57df74a
DH
1057- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1058 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1059
1060- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1061 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1062 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1063
350576c5
DH
1064- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1065 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1066 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1067 timeouts).
1068
792156a9
DH
1069- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1070 in failover state records.
1071
8a4e543b
DH
1072! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1073 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1074 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1075 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1076
a1308b64
DH
1077- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1078 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1079
1b12d999
DH
1080- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1081 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1082 last option definition is used.
1083
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PS
1084- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1085 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1086 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1087
3e29af1e
PS
1088- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1089 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1090
b8d45c67
DH
1091- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1092 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1093 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1094 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1095 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1096 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1097
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DH
1098- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1099 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1100 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1101 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1102
e4e3a2ab
DH
1103! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1104 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1105
875e99dc
SR
1106- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1107 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1108
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DH
1109- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1110 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1111 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1112 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1113 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1114 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1115 configuration.
1116
cd3f0b9b
DH
1117- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1118 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1119
0493fdca
SR
1120- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1121 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1122 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1123 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1124
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SR
1125- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1126 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1127 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1128 was always properly set.
1129
adbef119 1130 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1131
1132- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1133 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1134
a4ffedd1
DH
1135 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1136
1137- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1138 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1139 "abandoned".
1140
6ff3b26d
FD
1141- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1142
1387545f
DH
1143- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1144 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1145
1146- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1147 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1148
1149- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1150 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1151
399d3dbe
DH
1152- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1153
fbcee149
DH
1154- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1155 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1156 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1157 in future releases.
1158
f1672d89
DH
1159- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1160 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1161
236d3a99
DH
1162- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1163 'dhclient -6' support.
1164
efa5e6b9
DH
1165- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1166 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1167 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1168 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1169
7d6180be 1170 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1171
1172- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1173
51e7687f
EH
1174- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1175
20210a7b
EH
1176- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1177 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1178 only the latter. Fixed.
1179
535485df
EH
1180- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1181
8fbb55ff
DH
1182- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1183 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1184
61220a00
EH
1185- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1186
c40e954c
EH
1187- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1188
63971a83
DH
1189- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1190 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1191 --enable-early-chroot.
1192
66cebfcb
DH
1193- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1194 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1195
f8cbf390
DH
1196- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1197 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1198 parameter.
1199
8269561d
DH
1200- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1201 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1202
b445a411
DH
1203- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1204 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1205
bd72740e
FD
1206- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1207
9322442f
FD
1208- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1209
8dea7ba7
FD
1210- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1211
4619c0a2
DH
1212- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1213
9ac4206a
DH
1214- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1215 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1216 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1217
420d8b3f
FD
1218- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1219 support.
1220
40ec5f38
DH
1221- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1222 repaired.
1223
80097764
FD
1224- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1225
ffbaa880
FD
1226- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1227
7de20a95
EH
1228- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1229 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1230
d352732e
EH
1231- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1232 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1233
7d6180be
DH
1234- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1235 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1236
1237- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1238 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1239 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1240 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1241 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1242 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1243 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1244 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1245 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1246 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1247 shared-network.
1248
1249- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1250 configured option values.
1251
1252- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1253 support class statements.
1254
dd484ced
DH
1255- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1256 selection were repaired.
1257
ecddae64
DH
1258- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1259 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1260 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1261 by the OS.
1262
1263- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1264 address.
1265
1266- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1267 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1268
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DH
1269- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1270
1271- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1272
1273- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1274 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1275
01a54c17 1276 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1277
6d7f9584
FD
1278- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1279
4cafb815 1280- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1281 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1282
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EH
1283- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1284 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1285 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1286
1dcc3612
SK
1287- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1288 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1289
aabfa4de
FD
1290- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1291
0674055a
FD
1292- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1293 reserved IDs avoided).
1294
b51c785f
FD
1295- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1296
900405e9
FD
1297- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1298 carries a rapid-commit option.
1299
96b620e5
FD
1300- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1301 an empty active lease.
1302
be62cf06
FD
1303- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1304
01a54c17
EH
1305- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1306 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1307 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1308 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1309
1310- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1311
1312- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1313 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1314 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1315 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1316 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1317 Christof Chen.
1318
1319 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1320
1321- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1322
1323- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1324 config file but -6 is not specified.
1325
1326- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1327
1328- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1329 be more helpful.
1330
1331- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1332 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1333 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1334
1335- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1336 was repaired.
1337
1338- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1339 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1340 been repaired.
1341
1342- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1343 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1344 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1345
49f61135
DH
1346- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1347 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1348
41d4652f
DH
1349- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1350 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1351 IPv4 address.
1352
2c9bf1f4
DH
1353- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1354 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1355 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1356 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1357 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1358
1359- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1360 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1361 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1362
cff9b78f
SK
1363- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1364
c4d29896
SK
1365- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1366
57fcb8d9
SK
1367- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1368 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1369 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1370 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1371 unnecessary logging.
1372
219a65eb
DH
1373- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1374 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1375
ffdf3c8c
DH
1376- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1377 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1378 is incompatible is printed.
1379
1380- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1381 a previously undefined option code.
1382
00a002fc
MA
1383- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1384 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1385
7e9f7a1b
FD
1386- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1387 than the year 2000.
1388
e2cfde76
FD
1389- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1390
cabdb9b1
FD
1391- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1392
5d89d60f
FD
1393- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1394
61d75ea2
DH
1395 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1396
1397- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1398 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1399 configuration.
76db44f9 1400
e32529a5
EH
1401- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1402 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1403
76db44f9
SK
1404- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1405 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1406 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1407
6f76de58
SK
1408- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1409 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1410 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1411 a requested address.
1412
703873ab
DH
1413- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1414 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1415 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1416 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1417
1418- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1419 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1420 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1421 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1422
b024480e
DH
1423- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1424 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1425 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1426
c0216cb7
DH
1427- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1428 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1429
1ac57173
FD
1430- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1431
83835822
DH
1432- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1433 codes through some conditions.
1434
c54db708
FD
1435- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1436 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1437
e5d83524
DH
1438- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1439 seemingly random values.
1440
821f2dda
DH
1441- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1442
f8b3c6f4
DH
1443- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1444 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1445 one ever has.
1446
b9137d42
SK
1447- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1448 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1449 to a REQUEST.
1450
9f1d5a2f
DH
1451- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1452 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1453 level.
1454
e4a6be15
DH
1455 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1456
65cf86d7
EH
1457- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1458
b1d3778c
DH
1459- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1460 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1461 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1462 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1463 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1464
bead14ea
DH
1465- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1466 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1467 new address.
1468
f765ec36
SK
1469 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1470
75135a3f
EH
1471- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1472 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1473 simultaneously on a single interface.
1474
5c2d55c7
EH
1475- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1476 of service under unusual server configurations
1477
1478- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1479
f765ec36
SK
1480- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1481 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1482
edb1283e
DH
1483- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1484 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1485 on every pool rebalance run.
1486
c71c6399
DH
1487- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1488 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1489
5279b8f3
DH
1490- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1491 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1492
ab3a540f 1493 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1494
884a458f
SK
1495- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1496 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1497
fa9b593d
DH
1498- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1499 point out the problem.
1500
1b5053b5
SK
1501- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1502 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1503 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1504
c886c298
SK
1505- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1506 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1507
eaf7eb17
DH
1508- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1509 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1510 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1511
109e00db
DH
1512- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1513
3ad9d48f
SK
1514- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1515 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1516
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1517- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1518 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1519 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1520 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1521
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1522- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1523
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1524- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1525 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1526 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1527 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1528 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1529
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1530- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1531
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1532 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1533
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1534- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1535 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1536
763cba6b 1537- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1538
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1539- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1540 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1541 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1542
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1543- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1544
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1545- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1546 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1547
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1548- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1549 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1550 loaded from persistent storage.
1551
45d545f0 1552- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1553 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1554 necessary.
1555
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1556- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1557 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1558 rapid-commit option.
1559
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1560- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1561 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1562
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1563 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1564
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1565- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1566 and fix.
1567
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1568- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1569
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1570- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1571
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1572- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1573 for when loading configuration.
1574
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1575- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1576 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1577 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1578
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1579- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1580 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1581 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1582 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1583
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1584- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1585
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1586- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1587 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1588
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1589- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1590
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1591- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1592
1593- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1594 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1595
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1596- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1597 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1598
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1599- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1600
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1601- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1602 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1603
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1604 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1605
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1606- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1607
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1608- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1609 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1610
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1611- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1612
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1613- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1614 initialized.
1615
1616- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1617
1618- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1619 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1620
1621- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1623- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1624
1625- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1626 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1627
1628- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1629
8ea19a71 1630- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1631 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1632
1633- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1634 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1635
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1636- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1637
1638- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1639
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1640- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1641
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1642 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1643
1644- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1645 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1646 no support currently for both.
1647
1648- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1649 IAADDR option.
1650
1651- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1652 options.
1653
1654- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1655
1656- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1657 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1658
1659- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1660 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1661 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1662
1663- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1664 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1665
1666- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1667 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1668 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1669 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1670 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1671 differently, they both use the same code here).
1672
1673- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1674 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1675 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1676
1677- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1678
1679- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1680 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1681 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1682 it should not intercept.
1683
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1684 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1685
1686- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1687 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1688 between primary and secondary.
1689
1690- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1691 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1692 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1693
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1694- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1695
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1696- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1697 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1698 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1699 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1700 or REQUEST messages.
1701
1702- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1703 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1704
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1705- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1706
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1707 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1708
1709- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1710 failover protected subnets was removed.
1711
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1712 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1713
1714- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1715 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1716 odd number of leases).
1717
1718- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1719 rebalance run, and one after.
1720
1721- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1722 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1723 processing these messages.
1724
fe5b0fdd 1725 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1726
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1727- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1728 objects.
1729
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1730- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1731 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1732 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1733 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1734 at Allianz.
1735
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1736- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1737 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1738
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1739- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1740 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1741
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1742- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1743 caused the server to abort.
1744
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1745- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1746 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1747 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1748
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1749- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1750 by empty spaces would not get included.
1751
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1752- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1753 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1754
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1755- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1756 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1757
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1758- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1759 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1760
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1761- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1762 on the parameter request list.
1763
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1764 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1765
1766- Some spelling fixes.
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1768 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1769
1770- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1771 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1772
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1773- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1774 domain-search option syntax.
1775
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1776 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1777
1778- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1779 hash table was repaired.
1780
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1781- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1782 entering normal state.
1783
1784- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1785 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1786 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1787
1788- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1789 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1791- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1792 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1793 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1794 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1795
45d545f0 1796- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1797 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1798 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1799 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1800 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1801 to their needs.
1802
1803- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1804 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1805 run will attempt balance.
1806
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1807- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1808
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1809 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1810
1811- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1812 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1813 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1814 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1815
98bd7ca0 1816- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1817 was introduced.
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1818
1819- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1820 via OMAPI.
1821
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1822- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1823 the protocol draft.
1824
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1825- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1826 one does not already exist on the system.
1827
b43c87ad 1828- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1829
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1830- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1831 matches RFC 3074.
1832
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1833- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1834 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1835 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1837- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1838 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1839 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1840
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1841- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1842 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1843 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1844 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1845
1846- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1847 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1848 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1849 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1850
f7fdb216 1851- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1852 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1853 DHCPv6 support.
1854
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1855- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1856 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1857 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1858
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1859- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1860 have been incorporated.
1861
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1862- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1863 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1864 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1865 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1866 that belong to the peer in need.
1867
1868- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1869 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1870
1871- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1872 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1873 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1874
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1875- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1876 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1877
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1878- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1879 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1880 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1881 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1882 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1883
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1884- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1885 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1886 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1887 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1888
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1889- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1890 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1891 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1892 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1893 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1894 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1895 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1896 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1897 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1898
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1899- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1900 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1901
41e45067 1902- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1903 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1904 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1905 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1906
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1907- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1908 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1909 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1910 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1911
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1912- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1913 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1914 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1915 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1916 via Robin Breathe.
1917
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1918- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1919 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1920 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1921 from Christof Chen.
1922
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1923- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1924 formally supported.
1925
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1926 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1927
1928- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1929 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1930
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1931 Changes since 3.0.5
1932
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1933- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1934 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1935 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1936 they actually received.
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1937
1938- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1939
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1940- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1941 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1942 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1943 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1944
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1945- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1946
d69fb6a8 1947- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1948 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1949
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1950- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1951 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1952 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1953 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1954 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1955 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1956 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1957 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1958
1959- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1960 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1961 'file' field.
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1963- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1964 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1965
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1966- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1967 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1968 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1969
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1970- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1971 from Chris Wagner.
1972
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1973- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1974 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1975 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1976
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1977- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1978 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1979 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1980 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1981 was set.
1982
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1983- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1984 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1985
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1986- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1987 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1988 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1989 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1990 active ones.
1991
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0a73b7b6 1993
901306d5 1994- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1995 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1996 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1997 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1998 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1999
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2000- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2001 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2002
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2003 Changes since 3.0.4
2004
2005- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2006 scopes are actually global has been added.
2007
2008- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2009 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2010 known to be damaging.
2011
2012- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2013 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2014 balancing).
2015
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2016- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2017 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2018 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2019
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2020- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2021 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2022 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2023
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2024- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2025 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2026 more clear now.
2027
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2028- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2029 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2030 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2031 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2032 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2033 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2034
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2035- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2036 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2037
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2038- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2039 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2040 made possible.
2041
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2042- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2043 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2044 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2045
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2046- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2047 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2048
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2049- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2050 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2051 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2052
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2053- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2054 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2055 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2056 value with the later configured value).
2057
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2058- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2059 have been named and documented.
2060
2061- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2062 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2063 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2064 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2065 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2066 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2067 write new output.
2068
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2069 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2070
2071- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2072 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2073
2074 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2075
2076- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2077 mailing list.
2078
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2079 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2080
45d545f0 2081- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2082 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2083
2084- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2085 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2086
2087- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2088 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2089 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2090 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2091
2092- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2093 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2094 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2095 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2096 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2097 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2098 transition (properly).
2099
2100- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2101
2102 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2103
2104- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2105 STDIN after reading one line.
2106
2107- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2108 descriptor it opened twice.
2109
2110- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2111 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2112 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2113
2114 Changes since 3.0.3
2115
2116- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2117 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2118 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2119
2120- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2121 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2122 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2123
2124- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2125 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2126 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2127 leases to allocate.
2128
2129- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2130 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2131 than the entire block of them.
2132
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2133! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2134 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2135 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2136 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2137 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2138 to a patch from infamous42md.
2139
2140! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2141 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2142 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2143 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2144 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2145 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2146
2147- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2148 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2149 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2150
2151- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2152 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2153
2154- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2155 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2156 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2157 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2158 transitional states.
2159
2160- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2161 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2162 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2163
2164- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2165 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2166 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2167
2168- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2169 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2170
2171- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2172 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2173
2174- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2175 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2176 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2177
2178- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2179 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2180
2181- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2182 repaired.
2183
2184- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2185 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2186 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2187 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2188
2189- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2190 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2191 data.
2192
2193- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2194 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2195 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2196 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2197 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2198
2199- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2200 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2201 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2202 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2203 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2204
2205- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2206 has been repaired.
2207
2208- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2209 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2210 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2211 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2212 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2213
2214- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2215 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 2217- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2218 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2219 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2220 move to 3.[01].x.
2221
2222- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2223 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2224
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2225 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2226
2227- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2228 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2229
2230- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2231 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2232 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2233 workaround.
2234
2235 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2236
2237- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2238 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2239
2240 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2241
2242- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2243 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2244 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2245
2246- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2247 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2248 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2249
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2250 Changes since 3.0.2
2251
2252- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2253 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2254 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2255
2256- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2257 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2258 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2259 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2260 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2261
2262- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2263 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2264 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2265
2266- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2267 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2268 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2269
2270- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2271 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2272 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2273 Peter Poeml.
2274
2275- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2276 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2277
2278- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2279 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2280 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2281 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2282 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2283 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2284
2285- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2286 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2287 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2288 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2289
2290- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2291 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2292 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2293 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2294
2295- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2296 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2297
2298- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2299 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2300 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2301
2302- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2303 7 bytes, and failover.
2304
2305- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2306 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2307 at Red Hat.
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2308
2309- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2310 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2311 should work better.
2312
2313- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2314 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2315 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2316
2317- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2318 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2319 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2320
2321 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2322
2323- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2324 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2325
2326 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2327
45d545f0 2328- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2329 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2330 overloading. This was repaired.
2331
2332- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2333 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2334 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2335 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2336 three chunks to fit.
2337
2338- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2339 were repaired.
2340
2341- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2342 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2343 leak).
2344
2345 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2346
2347- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2348 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2349
2350 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2351
2352- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2353
2354 Changes since 3.0.1
2355
2356- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2357 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2358 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2359
2360- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2361 name was not provided by the server.
2362
2363- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2364 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2365
2366- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2367 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2368
2369- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2370 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2371
2372- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2373
2374- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2375
2376- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2377 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2378 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2379 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2380 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2381
2382- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2383 the configuration be globally scoped.
2384
2385- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2386 Farkas.
2387
2388- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2389 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2390
2391- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2392 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2393
2394- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2395 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2396
2397- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2398 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2399 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2400 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2401
2402- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2403 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2404 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2405 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2406
2407- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2408 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2409 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2410
2411- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2412
2413- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2414 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2415 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2416
2417- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2418 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2419 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2420 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2421 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2422
2423- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2424 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2425
2426- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2427 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2428
2429- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2430 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2431 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2432 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2433
2434- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2435 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2436
2437- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2438 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2439 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2440
2441- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2442 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2443 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2444 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2445 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2446 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2447
2448- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2449 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2450 Infoblox.
2451
2452- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2453
2454- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2455 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2456 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2457 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2458 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2459 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2460 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2461
2462- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2463 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2464 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2465
2466- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2467 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2468 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2469
2470- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2471
2472 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2473
2474- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2475 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2476 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2477 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2478 systems either.
2479
2480- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2481
2482- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2483 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2484 is false.
2485
2486- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2487 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2488
2489- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2490
2491 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2492
2493! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2494 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2495 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2496 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2497 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2498 both finding and solving the problem.
2499
2500! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2501 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2502 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2503 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2504 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2505 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2506 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2507 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2508 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2509 published version of ISC DHCP.
2510
2511- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2512
2513- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2514
2515 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2516
2517- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2518 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2519 Richard Hirst.
2520
2521- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2522 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2523 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2524
2525- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2526
2527- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2528 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2529 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2530 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2531
2532- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2533 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2534
2535- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2536 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2537
2538- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2539
2540 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2541
2542- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2543 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2544
2545- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2546 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2547 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2548
2549- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2550 by name was fixed.
2551
45d545f0 2552- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2553 longer result in error.
2554
2555- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2556
2557- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2558 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2559 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2560
2561- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2562 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2563
2564- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2565 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2566 Blapp.
2567
2568- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2569 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2570 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2571 Martin Blapp.
2572
2573- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2574 expiry times in failover configurations.
2575
2576- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2577 Steve G.
2578
2579- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2580 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2581
2582- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2583 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2584 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2585 now "unknown-144".
2586
2587- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2588 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2589
2590 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2591
2592- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2593
2594- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2595 not be bash.
2596
2597- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2598
2599- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2600 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2601 that errored before will now work properly.
2602
2603- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2604 names was repaired.
2605
2606- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2607 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2608 configuration file.
2609
2610- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2611 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2612
2613- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2614 error rather than a null dereference.
2615
2616 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2617
2618- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2619
2620- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2621
2622- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2623 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2624
2625- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2626
2627- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2628
2629- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2630 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2631 self-corrupting lease databases.
2632
2633- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2634
2635- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2636 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2637
2638- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2639
2640- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2641
2642- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2643 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2644 Ling Gou.
2645
2646- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2647 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2648
2649- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2650 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2651 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2652
2653- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2654 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2655
2656 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2657
2658- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2659 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2660
2661- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2662
2663- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2664 a memory leak.
2665
2666- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2667 script.
2668
2669- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2670
2671- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2672
2673- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2674
2675- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2676
2677- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2678
2679- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2680
2681- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2682
2683- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2684
2685- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2686
2687- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2688
2689- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2690
2691- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2692
2693 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2694
2695- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2696 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2697 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2698
2699 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2700
2701- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2702 to be renewed.
2703
2704- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2705 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2706
2707- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2708 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2709
2710- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2711 that two permit lists matched.
2712
2713- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2714 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2715
2716- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2717
2718- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2719 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2720
2721- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2722
2723- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2724
2725- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2726 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2727 going to update its A record.
2728
2729- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2730 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2731 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2732 DNS server.
2733
2734- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2735
2736- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2737
2738- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2739 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2740 NetBSD project).
2741
2742- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2743 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2744
2745- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2746 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2747
2748- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2749
2750- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2751
2752- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2753 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2754 failover protocol standard.
2755
2756- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2757 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2758 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2759
2760- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2761 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2762 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2763 do so.
2764
2765- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2766
2767 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2768
2769- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2770
2771- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2772 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2773
2774- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2775 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2776
2777- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2778 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2779 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2780
2781- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2782 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2783 network, merge the two pools.
2784
2785- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2786 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2787 fix this bug.
2788
2789 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2790
2791- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2792 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2793
2794- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2795 the same case.
2796
2797- Additional documentation.
2798
2799- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2800 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2801
2802 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2803
2804- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2805- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2806
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2808
2809- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2810 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2811 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2812 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2813 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2814
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2816
2817- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2818 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2819 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2820 wasn't the one that removed it.
2821
2822- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2823 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2824 were not configured.
2825
2826- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2827
2828- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2829 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2830 routing information.
2831
2832- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2833 request being sent.
2834
2835- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2836 done.
2837
2838- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2839 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2840 were pending.
2841
2842- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2843 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2844 problems with failover.
2845
2846- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2847 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2848 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2849
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2851
2852- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2853 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2854
2855- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2856 no object is open, it dumps core.
2857
2858- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2859
2860- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2861
2862- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2863
2864- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2865 a host object attribute with a null value.
2866
2867 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2868
2869- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2870
2871- Fix an obscure core dump.
2872
2873- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2874 when crucial information is left out.
2875
2876- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2877
2878- Documentation updates.
2879
2880 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2881
2882- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2883
2884- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2885 structure wasn't zeroed.
2886
2887- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2888 incorrectly.
2889
2890- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2891 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2892 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2893 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2894 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2895 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2896 restarted.
2897
2898 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2899
2900- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2901 in failover-enabled pools.
2902
2903- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2904 declarations).
2905
2906- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2907 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2908
2909- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2910 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2911
2912- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2913
2914- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2915 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2916
2917- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2918
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2920
2921- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2922
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2923 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2924
2925- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2926
2927- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2928
2929- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2930
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2931 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2932
2933- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2934 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2935 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2936
2937- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2938 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2939 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2940 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2941 string.
2942
2943- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2944
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2945 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2946
2947- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2948 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2949
2950- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2951 malformed packets.
2952
2953- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2954
2955- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2956 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2957 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2958
2959- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2960
2961- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2962
2963- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2964
2965- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2966 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2967
2968- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2969 tcp connections from being played back.
2970
2971- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2972 on exit.
2973
2974- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2975
2976- Add some configurability to the build system.
2977
2978- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2979
2980- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2981 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2982 hadn't been noticed until now.
2983
2984 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2985
2986- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2987 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2988
2989- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2990 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2991 conformant, but also didn't work).
2992
2993- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2994 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2995
2996- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2997 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2998
2999- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3000 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3001
3002- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3003 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3004
3005- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3006 doing failover.
3007
3008- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3009 running on alpha processors.
3010
3011- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3012 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3013
3014- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3015
3016- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3017
3018- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3019 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3020
3021- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3022
3023- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3024 actually named (key names are domain names).
3025
3026- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3027
3028- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3029 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3030
3031- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3032 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3033
3034- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3035 statements.
3036
3037- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3038 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3039
3040- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3041 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3042 operating.
3043
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3044 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3045
3046- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3047 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3048 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3049 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3050
3051- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3052 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3053
3054- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3055
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3056 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3057
3058- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3059 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3060
3061- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3062 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3063 to the chain.
3064
3065- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3066
3067- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3068
3069- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3070
98311e4b 3071- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3072 attribute values in omshell.
3073
98311e4b 3074- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3075
3076- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3077
3078 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3079
3080- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3081 DHCPDECLINE.
3082
3083- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3084
3085- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3086 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3087 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3088
3089- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3090
3091- Documentation fixes.
3092
3093- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3094 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3095
3096- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3097 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3098
3099- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3100
3101- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3102
3103- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3104 case-insensitive.
3105
3106- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3107
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3109 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3110 consistently.
3111
3112- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3113 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3114
3115- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3116
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3117 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3118
3119- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3120 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3121 result of duplicate leases.
3122
3123- Document OMAPI server objects.
3124
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3125 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3126
3127- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3128 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3129
3130- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3131 core dumps.
3132
3133- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3134 Friedrich.
3135
3136- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3137
3138 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3139
3140- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3141 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3142 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3143 billing class code.
3144
3145- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3146 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3147
3148- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3149 trace file.
3150
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3153- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3154 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3155 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3156 e.g., Digital Unix.
3157
3158- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3159 when no error had occurred.
3160
3161- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3162 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3163 non-communicating state.
3164
3165- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3166
3167- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3168 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3169 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3170
3171- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3172 when the client lease expired.
3173
3174- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3175 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3176 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3177 in testing.
3178
3179- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3180 the command line, it would fail.
3181
3182- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3183 user impact).
3184
3185- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3186
3187- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3188 they're executable.
3189
3190 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3191
3192- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3193 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3194 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3195 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3196
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3197- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3198 Transmeta.
3199
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3200- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3201 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3202 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3203 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3204
3205- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3206 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3207
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3208 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3209
3210- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3211 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3212
3213- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3214
3215- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3216
3217- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3218
3219- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3220
3221- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3222
3223- Update some parts of the README file.
3224
3225- Support GCC on SCO.
3226
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3228
3229- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3230 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3231
3232- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3233 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3234 unbill the old class.
3235
3236- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3237 process the state transition immediately.
3238
3239- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3240 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3241
3242- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3243
3244- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3245
3246- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3247
3248- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3249
3250- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3251 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3252 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3253
3254- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3255 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3256
3257- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3258 lease file.
3259
3260- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3261
3262- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3265
3266- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3267 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3268
3269- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3270
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3272
3273- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3274
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3276
3277- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3278
3279- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3280 pl19.
3281
3282- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3283 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3284 past the regression test.
3285
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3287
3288- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3289 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3290
3291- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3292 DHCPREQUEST.
3293
3294- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3295
3296- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3297
3298- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3299
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3302- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3303 (Damien Neil)
3304
3305- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3306 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3307
3308- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3309 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3310 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3311
3312- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3313 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3314 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3315 message.
3316
3317- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3318 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3319 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3320
98311e4b 3321- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3322 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3323 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3324 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3325 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3326 this way will work.
3327
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3328- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3329
3330- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3331 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3332 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3333 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3334
3335 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3336
3337 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3338
3339- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3340 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3341 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3342
3343- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3344 Hermann Lauer.
3345
3346- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3347 messages.
3348
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3349- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3350 it contained quoted strings.
3351
b3fad8ac
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3352 ** there was no pl17 **
3353
adbef119 3354 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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6da9db9d
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3356- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3357 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3358 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3359 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3360 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3361 tracking down memory leaks.
3362
3363- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3364 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3365 Solaris.
3366
3367- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3368 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3369 corruption and core dumps.
3370
3371- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3372 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3373
3374- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3375
3376- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3377 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3378
3379- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3380 name and version to standard output.
3381
3382- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3383
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3384- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3385 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3386
6da9db9d
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3387- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3388
3389- Lots of documentation updates.
3390
3391- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3392 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3393
3394- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3395
3396- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3397 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3398
adbef119 3399 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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3400
3401- Some documentation tweaks.
3402
3403- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3404
3405- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3406
3407- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3408 agent options into them.
3409
3410- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3411
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3412- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3413 options.
3414
adbef119 3415 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3416
3417- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3418 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3419 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3420 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3421 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3422
3423- Fix up documentation.
3424
3425- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3426 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3427
3428- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3429
3430- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3431
3432- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3433 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3434 practical use otherwise.
3435
3436- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3437 for debugging.
3438
adbef119 3439 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
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3440
3441- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3442 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3443 dump on some systems.
3444
3445- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3446 option.
3447
3448- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3449 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3450
3451- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3452 that were not printing enough information.
3453
3454- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3455 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3456
3457- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3458 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3459 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3460 were answering.
3461
3462- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3463 the transition.
3464
3465
adbef119 3466 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3467
3468- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3469
a1e2e3d6
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3470 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3471
3472- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3473 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3474 representation from working correctly.
3475
3476- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3477 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3478 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3479 could spin.
3480
3481- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3482 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3483
3484- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3485 interface name on the command line.
3486
3487- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3488 client state.
3489
3490- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3491 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3492 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3493 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3494 added by Ted Lemon.
3495
3496- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3497 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3498
3499- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3500 end option.
3501
3502- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3503 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3504 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3505
3506- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3507 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3508 face of a null hardware address on input.
3509
3510- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3511 specified unqualified.
3512
3513- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3514 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3515
3516- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3517 RFC.
3518
3519- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3520
3521- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3522
3523- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3524 it works.
3525
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3526 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3527
3528- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3529 to CVS.
3530
9fd337e7
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3531 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3532
3533- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3534
3535- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3536 in patchlevel 9.
3537
3538- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3539 options at renewal time.
3540
3541- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3542 configuration language.
3543
3544- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3545
3546- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3547 done when no client hostname was received.
3548
3549- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3550
3551- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3552 the DHCP option space.
3553
3554- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3555
3556- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3557 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3558
3559- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3560 silently dropped.
3561
3562- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3563 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3564
3565- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3566 will be correctly updated.
3567
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3568 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3569
3570- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3571 bounds-checking.
3572
3573 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3574
3575- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3576
3922772a 3577 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3578
f8572308
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3579- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3580 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3581 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3582
3583- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3584 option.
3585
3586- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3587 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3588 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3589 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3590 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3591 meaningfully.
3592
3593- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3594 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3595 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3596
3597- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3598 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3599 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3600 this one down!
3601
3602- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3603 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3604 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3605 down and fixing this problem.
3606
3607 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3608
0f6045f8
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3609- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3610 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3611
3612- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3613 environment.
3614
3615- Fix suffix operator.
3616
3617- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3618
3619- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3620 connection code.
3621
3622- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3623
3624- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3625
3626- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3627 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3628
3629- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3630
3631- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3632
3633- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3634 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3635
3636- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3637 spawn with.
3638
3639- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3640 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3641
3642- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3643 for OMAPI.
3644
3645- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3646 can install in host declarations.
3647
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3648 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3649
3650- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3651 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3652 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3653 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3654 comments)!
3655
3656- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3657
6ed7a93d
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3658- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3659 request for help on this with patches!
3660
3661- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3662 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3663 lost, they never reconnect.
3664
3665- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3666 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3667
3668- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3669 dump.
3670
3671- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3672 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3673 catching this one.
3674
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3675 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3676
3677- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3678 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3679 lease renewal time.
3680
3681- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3682 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3683 declared without a key.
3684
3685- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3686
3687- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3688 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3689
3690- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3691 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3692 determine the maximum size of the response.
3693
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3694 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3695
359b023e
TL
3696- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3697 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3698
592d8153
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3699- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3700 RENEWING client.
3701
3702- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3703
3704- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3705 using memcmp().
3706
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3707 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3708
3709- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3710 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3711 pointing this out.
3712
3713- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3714 exit.
3715
3716- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3717
3718- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3719 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.