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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.
3a16098f 29
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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]
01a44a77 68
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
73
74- None
75 Changes since 4.3.0b1
76
77- Tidy up receive packet processing.
78 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
79 a possible patch.
80 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
81
82 Changes since 4.3.0a1
83
84- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
85 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
86 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
87 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
88
89- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
90 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
91
6980ae03 92 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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94- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
95 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
96 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
97 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
98 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
99 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 100 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 101 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 102 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 103 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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105- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
106 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
107 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
108
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109- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
110 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
111 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
112 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 113 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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115- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
116 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
117 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
118 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
119 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
120 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
121
a7341359 122- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 123 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 124
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125- Add support for using classes with v6.
126 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
127
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128- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
129 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
130 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
131 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
132 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
133 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
134 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 135 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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137- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
138 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
139 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
140 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
141 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
142 not recommended.
64fb661c 143 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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145- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
146 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
147 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
148 This is "Server starting service.".
149 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
150 its failover peer are in the normal state.
151 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 152 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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154- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
155 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
156 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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157 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
158 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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159 man page for a description.
160 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
161
e54ff84f 162- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 163 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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164 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
165 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
166 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
167 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
168 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
169
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170- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
171 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
172 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
173 one instance of their respective address types.
174 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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176- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
177 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
178 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
179 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 180 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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181 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
182 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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184- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
185 and take host declarations into account.
186 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
187 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
188
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189- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
190 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
191 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
192 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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194- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
195 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 196 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 198 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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200- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
201 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 202
01a44a77 203- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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205- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
206 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 207
01a44a77 208- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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210- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
211 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
212 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
213 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
214 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
215 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 217- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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219- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
220 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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222- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
223 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
224 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
225 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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227- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
228 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
229 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
230 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
231 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
232 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
233 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
234 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
235 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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237- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
238 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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240! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
241 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
242 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
243 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 244
01a44a77 245- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 246
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247- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
248 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
249 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
250 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
251 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 252
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253- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
254 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
255 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
256 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
257 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
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01a44a77 259- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 260
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261- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
262 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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264- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
265 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
266 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
267 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
268 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
269 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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271- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
272 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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274 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
275 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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277 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
278 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 279
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280 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
281 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 282
01a44a77 283- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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285- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
286 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
287 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
288 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
289 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
290 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 291
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292- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
293 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
294 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
295 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
296 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
297 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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299- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
300 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
301 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 302
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303- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
304 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
305 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
306 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 307
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308- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
309 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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311- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
312 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
313 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 314
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315- Minor code fixes
316 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
317 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
318 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
319 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
320 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
321 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
322 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
323 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
324 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
325 Thanks to Martin Pala.
326 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
327 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 328
01a44a77 329- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
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331- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
332 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
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334- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
335 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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337- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
338 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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340- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
341 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
342 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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344- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
345 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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347- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
348 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
349 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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351- Fixes to lease input and output.
352 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
353 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
354 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
355 characters.
356 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
357 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 358
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359- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
360 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
361 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
362 at Red Hat.
363 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
364 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
365 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
366 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 367
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368- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
369 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
370 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
371 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 372
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374 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
375 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
376 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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378- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
379 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
380 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 381
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382- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
383 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
384 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
385 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
386 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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388- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
389 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
390 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
391 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
392 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 393
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395 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
396 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
397 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
398 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
399 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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401- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
402 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
403 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 404
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405- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
406 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
407 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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409- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
410 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
411 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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413- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
414 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
415 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
416 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
417 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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419- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
420 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
421 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
422 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 423
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425 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
426 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
427 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
428 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
429 and reset its timeout value.
430 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
431
432- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
433 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
434 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
435 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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438 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
439 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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441- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
442 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
443 when removing the ddns information.
444 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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446- Some fixes for LDAP
447 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
448 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
449 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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451- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
452 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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454! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
455 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
456 interfaces with the OS.
457 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
458 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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460- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
461 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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463- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
464 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
465 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
466 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
467 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
468 in v6 mode at configure time.
469 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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471- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
472 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
473 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 474 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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476- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
477 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
478 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
479 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
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482- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
483 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
484 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
485 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 486 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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488- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
489 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
490 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
491 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 492 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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494- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
495 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 496 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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498- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
499 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
500 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
501 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 502 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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504- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
505 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
506 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
507
508- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
509 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
510 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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512- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
513 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
514 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
515 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
516 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
517 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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519- Documentation fixes
520 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
521 responses to the all-ones address.
522 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
523 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
524
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525- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
526 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
527 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
528 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
529
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530- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
531 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
532
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533- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
534 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
535 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
536
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537- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
538 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
539 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
540 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
541 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
542 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
543 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
544 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
545 enable this except for testing purposes.
546 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
547 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
548
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549- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
550 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
551
552- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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554- Client Script fixes
555 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
556 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
557 the domain search address is link local.
558 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
559 case of the default router information being changed without the address
560 being changed.
561
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562- Documentation cleanup
563 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
564
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565- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
566 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
567
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568- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
569 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
570 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
571 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
572
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573- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
574 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
575 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
576
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577- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
578 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
579
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580- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
581 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
582 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
583 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
584 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
585 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
586
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587- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
588 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
589 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
590 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
591 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
592 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
593 in site.h then server will be terminated
594 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
595
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596! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
597 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
598 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
599 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
600 One CVE number for each class of packet.
601 CVE-2011-2748
602 CVE-2011-2749
603
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604- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
605 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
606 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
607 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 608
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609- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
610 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 611
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612- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
613 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 614
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615- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
616 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 617
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618! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
619 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
620 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
621 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
622 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
623 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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625! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
626 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
627 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
628 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
629 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
630 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
631 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
632 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
633 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
634 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
635 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
636 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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638- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
639 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
640 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
641 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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643- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
644 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
645 from the DNS client code.
646 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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648- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
649 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
650
651- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
652 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
653 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
654 some issues we found in the socket code.
655 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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657- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
658 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
659 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
660 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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662- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
663 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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665- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
666 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
667 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
668 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
669 weren't removed from the DNS.
670 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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672- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
673 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
674 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
675 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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677- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
678 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
679 dynamic bootp clients.
680 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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682- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
683 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
684 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
685 handing it out.
686 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
687 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
688 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
689 for different IAs.
690 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
691 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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693- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
694 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
695 an int as a boolean).
696 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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698- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
699 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
700 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
701 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
702 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
703 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
704 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
705 may be removed in the future.
706 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
707 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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709- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
710 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
711 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
712 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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714- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
715 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
716 report and the first version of the patch.
717 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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719- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
720 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
721 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
722 for reporting this issue.
723 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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725- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
726 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
727 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
728 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
729 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
730 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
731 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
732 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
733 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
734 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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736! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
737 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
738 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
739 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
740 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
741 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
742 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
743 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
744 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
745 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
746 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
747 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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749! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
750 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
751 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
752 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
753 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
754 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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756! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
757 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
758 this issue.
759 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
760 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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762- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
763 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
764 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
765 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
766 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
767 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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769! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
770 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
771 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
772 New Zealand for finding this issue.
773 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
774 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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776- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
777 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 778
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779- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
780 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
781 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
782 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
783 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
784 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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786- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
787 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
788 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
789 freed in other cases.
790 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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792- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
793 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
794 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
795 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
796 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
797 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
798 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
799 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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801- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
802 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
803 and patches.
804 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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806- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
807 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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809- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
810 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
811 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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813- The client now passes information about the options it requested
814 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
815 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
816 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
817 variables.
818 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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820- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
821 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
822 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
823 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
824 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
825 enabling it.
826 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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828- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
829 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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831- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
832 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
833 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
834 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
835 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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837- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
838 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
839 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
840 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
841 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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843- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
844 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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846- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
847 and comment out a currently unused test.
848 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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850- Address static analysis warnings.
851 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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853- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
854 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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856- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
857 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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859- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
860 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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862- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
863 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
864 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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866- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
867 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
868 for the patch.
869 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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871- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
872 objects.
873 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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875- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
876 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
877 to work more consistently.
878 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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880- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
881 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
882 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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884- Update client script for use with openwrt.
885 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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887- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
888 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
889 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
890 for the bug report and a potential patch.
891 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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893- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
894 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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896- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
897 to the clients.
898 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 899
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900- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
901 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
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904 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
905
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906- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
907 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 908 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 909
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910- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
911 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
912 Cantrell at Red Hat.
913
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914- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
915 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
916
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917- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
918
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919- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
920 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
921 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
922 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
923 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
924 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
925
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926- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
927 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
928 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
929 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
930 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
931 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
932 FQDN options by default).
933
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934- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
935 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
936 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
937 determined lease time) are omitted.
938
98bf1607 939- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 940 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 941 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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942
943- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
944 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
945 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
946
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947 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
948
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949- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
950
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951- Validate the argument to the -p option.
952
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953- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
954 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
955 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
956 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
957 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
958
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959- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
960
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961- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
962 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
963 had been deleted from configuration.
964
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965- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
966 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 967 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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968 were being ignored.
969
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970- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
971
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972- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
973 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
974 Nordahl.
975
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976- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
977 dhcpv6 disabled.
978
8d7dca58 979- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 980 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 981
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982- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
983 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
984
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985- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
986 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
987 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
988
989- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
990 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
991 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
992 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
993 fewer system calls.
994
a3dcc0b1
DH
995- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
996 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
997 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
998 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
999 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1000 Christof Chen.
1001
95fd7038
DH
1002- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1003 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1004 and in normal state.
1005
1006- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1007 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1008
8a3c1e33
PS
1009- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1010
1011- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1012 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1013 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1014
dedde1ba
DH
1015- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1016 rather than restarting the listener.
1017
a57df74a
DH
1018- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1019 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1020
1021- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1022 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1023 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1024
350576c5
DH
1025- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1026 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1027 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1028 timeouts).
1029
792156a9
DH
1030- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1031 in failover state records.
1032
8a4e543b
DH
1033! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1034 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1035 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1036 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1037
a1308b64
DH
1038- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1039 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1040
1b12d999
DH
1041- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1042 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1043 last option definition is used.
1044
d453265f
PS
1045- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1046 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1047 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1048
3e29af1e
PS
1049- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1050 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1051
b8d45c67
DH
1052- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1053 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1054 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1055 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1056 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1057 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1058
583c1c16
DH
1059- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1060 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1061 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1062 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1063
e4e3a2ab
DH
1064! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1065 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1066
875e99dc
SR
1067- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1068 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1069
2267da84
DH
1070- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1071 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1072 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1073 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1074 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1075 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1076 configuration.
1077
cd3f0b9b
DH
1078- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1079 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1080
0493fdca
SR
1081- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1082 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1083 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1084 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1085
95bba8b6
SR
1086- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1087 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1088 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1089 was always properly set.
1090
adbef119 1091 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1092
1093- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1094 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1095
a4ffedd1
DH
1096 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1097
1098- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1099 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1100 "abandoned".
1101
6ff3b26d
FD
1102- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1103
1387545f
DH
1104- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1105 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1106
1107- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1108 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1109
1110- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1111 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1112
399d3dbe
DH
1113- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1114
fbcee149
DH
1115- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1116 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1117 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1118 in future releases.
1119
f1672d89
DH
1120- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1121 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1122
236d3a99
DH
1123- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1124 'dhclient -6' support.
1125
efa5e6b9
DH
1126- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1127 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1128 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1129 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1130
7d6180be 1131 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1132
1133- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1134
51e7687f
EH
1135- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1136
20210a7b
EH
1137- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1138 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1139 only the latter. Fixed.
1140
535485df
EH
1141- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1142
8fbb55ff
DH
1143- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1144 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1145
61220a00
EH
1146- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1147
c40e954c
EH
1148- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1149
63971a83
DH
1150- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1151 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1152 --enable-early-chroot.
1153
66cebfcb
DH
1154- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1155 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1156
f8cbf390
DH
1157- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1158 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1159 parameter.
1160
8269561d
DH
1161- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1162 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1163
b445a411
DH
1164- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1165 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1166
bd72740e
FD
1167- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1168
9322442f
FD
1169- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1170
8dea7ba7
FD
1171- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1172
4619c0a2
DH
1173- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1174
9ac4206a
DH
1175- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1176 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1177 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1178
420d8b3f
FD
1179- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1180 support.
1181
40ec5f38
DH
1182- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1183 repaired.
1184
80097764
FD
1185- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1186
ffbaa880
FD
1187- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1188
7de20a95
EH
1189- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1190 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1191
d352732e
EH
1192- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1193 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1194
7d6180be
DH
1195- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1196 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1197
1198- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1199 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1200 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1201 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1202 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1203 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1204 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1205 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1206 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1207 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1208 shared-network.
1209
1210- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1211 configured option values.
1212
1213- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1214 support class statements.
1215
dd484ced
DH
1216- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1217 selection were repaired.
1218
ecddae64
DH
1219- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1220 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1221 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1222 by the OS.
1223
1224- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1225 address.
1226
1227- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1228 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1229
d104d45b
DH
1230- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1231
1232- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1233
1234- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1235 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1236
01a54c17 1237 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1238
6d7f9584
FD
1239- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1240
4cafb815 1241- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1242 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1243
022fe95e
EH
1244- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1245 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1246 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1247
1dcc3612
SK
1248- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1249 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1250
aabfa4de
FD
1251- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1252
0674055a
FD
1253- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1254 reserved IDs avoided).
1255
b51c785f
FD
1256- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1257
900405e9
FD
1258- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1259 carries a rapid-commit option.
1260
96b620e5
FD
1261- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1262 an empty active lease.
1263
be62cf06
FD
1264- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1265
01a54c17
EH
1266- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1267 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1268 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1269 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1270
1271- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1272
1273- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1274 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1275 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1276 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1277 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1278 Christof Chen.
1279
1280 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1281
1282- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1283
1284- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1285 config file but -6 is not specified.
1286
1287- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1288
1289- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1290 be more helpful.
1291
1292- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1293 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1294 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1295
1296- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1297 was repaired.
1298
1299- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1300 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1301 been repaired.
1302
1303- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1304 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1305 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1306
49f61135
DH
1307- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1308 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1309
41d4652f
DH
1310- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1311 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1312 IPv4 address.
1313
2c9bf1f4
DH
1314- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1315 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1316 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1317 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1318 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1319
1320- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1321 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1322 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1323
cff9b78f
SK
1324- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1325
c4d29896
SK
1326- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1327
57fcb8d9
SK
1328- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1329 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1330 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1331 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1332 unnecessary logging.
1333
219a65eb
DH
1334- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1335 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1336
ffdf3c8c
DH
1337- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1338 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1339 is incompatible is printed.
1340
1341- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1342 a previously undefined option code.
1343
00a002fc
MA
1344- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1345 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1346
7e9f7a1b
FD
1347- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1348 than the year 2000.
1349
e2cfde76
FD
1350- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1351
cabdb9b1
FD
1352- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1353
5d89d60f
FD
1354- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1355
61d75ea2
DH
1356 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1357
1358- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1359 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1360 configuration.
76db44f9 1361
e32529a5
EH
1362- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1363 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1364
76db44f9
SK
1365- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1366 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1367 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1368
6f76de58
SK
1369- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1370 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1371 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1372 a requested address.
1373
703873ab
DH
1374- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1375 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1376 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1377 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1378
1379- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1380 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1381 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1382 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1383
b024480e
DH
1384- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1385 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1386 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1387
c0216cb7
DH
1388- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1389 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1390
1ac57173
FD
1391- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1392
83835822
DH
1393- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1394 codes through some conditions.
1395
c54db708
FD
1396- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1397 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1398
e5d83524
DH
1399- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1400 seemingly random values.
1401
821f2dda
DH
1402- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1403
f8b3c6f4
DH
1404- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1405 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1406 one ever has.
1407
b9137d42
SK
1408- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1409 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1410 to a REQUEST.
1411
9f1d5a2f
DH
1412- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1413 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1414 level.
1415
e4a6be15
DH
1416 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1417
65cf86d7
EH
1418- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1419
b1d3778c
DH
1420- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1421 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1422 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1423 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1424 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1425
bead14ea
DH
1426- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1427 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1428 new address.
1429
f765ec36
SK
1430 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1431
75135a3f
EH
1432- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1433 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1434 simultaneously on a single interface.
1435
5c2d55c7
EH
1436- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1437 of service under unusual server configurations
1438
1439- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1440
f765ec36
SK
1441- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1442 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1443
edb1283e
DH
1444- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1445 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1446 on every pool rebalance run.
1447
c71c6399
DH
1448- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1449 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1450
5279b8f3
DH
1451- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1452 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1453
ab3a540f 1454 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1455
884a458f
SK
1456- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1457 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1458
fa9b593d
DH
1459- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1460 point out the problem.
1461
1b5053b5
SK
1462- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1463 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1464 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1465
c886c298
SK
1466- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1467 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1468
eaf7eb17
DH
1469- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1470 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1471 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1472
109e00db
DH
1473- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1474
3ad9d48f
SK
1475- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1476 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1477
8eab95f2
DH
1478- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1479 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1480 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1481 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1482
07b9a351
DH
1483- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1484
7285af30
DH
1485- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1486 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1487 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1488 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1489 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1490
2394b26b
DH
1491- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1492
ab3a540f
SK
1493 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1494
97050349
SK
1495- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1496 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1497
763cba6b 1498- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1499
237f8d3a
SK
1500- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1501 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1502 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1503
28868515
SK
1504- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1505
d00d373a
SK
1506- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1507 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1508
8dfd5744
DH
1509- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1510 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1511 loaded from persistent storage.
1512
45d545f0 1513- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1514 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1515 necessary.
1516
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1517- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1518 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1519 rapid-commit option.
1520
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1521- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1522 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1523
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1524 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1525
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1526- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1527 and fix.
1528
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1529- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1530
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1531- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1532
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1533- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1534 for when loading configuration.
1535
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1536- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1537 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1538 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1539
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1540- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1541 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1542 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1543 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1544
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1545- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1546
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1547- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1548 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1549
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1550- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1551
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1552- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1553
1554- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1555 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1556
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1557- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1558 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1559
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1560- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1561
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1562- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1563 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1564
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1565 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1566
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1567- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1568
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1569- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1570 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1571
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1572- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1573
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1574- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1575 initialized.
1576
1577- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1578
1579- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1580 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1581
1582- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1584- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1585
1586- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1587 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1588
1589- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1590
8ea19a71 1591- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1592 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1593
1594- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1595 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1596
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1597- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1598
1599- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1600
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1601- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1602
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1603 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1604
1605- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1606 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1607 no support currently for both.
1608
1609- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1610 IAADDR option.
1611
1612- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1613 options.
1614
1615- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1616
1617- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1618 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1619
1620- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1621 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1622 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1623
1624- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1625 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1626
1627- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1628 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1629 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1630 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1631 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1632 differently, they both use the same code here).
1633
1634- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1635 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1636 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1637
1638- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1639
1640- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1641 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1642 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1643 it should not intercept.
1644
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1645 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1646
1647- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1648 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1649 between primary and secondary.
1650
1651- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1652 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1653 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1654
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1655- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1656
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1657- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1658 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1659 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1660 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1661 or REQUEST messages.
1662
1663- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1664 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1665
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1666- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1667
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1668 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1669
1670- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1671 failover protected subnets was removed.
1672
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1673 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1674
1675- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1676 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1677 odd number of leases).
1678
1679- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1680 rebalance run, and one after.
1681
1682- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1683 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1684 processing these messages.
1685
fe5b0fdd 1686 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1688- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1689 objects.
1690
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1691- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1692 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1693 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1694 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1695 at Allianz.
1696
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1697- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1698 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1699
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1700- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1701 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1702
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1703- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1704 caused the server to abort.
1705
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1706- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1707 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1708 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1709
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1710- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1711 by empty spaces would not get included.
1712
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1713- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1714 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1715
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1716- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1717 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1718
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1719- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1720 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1721
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1722- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1723 on the parameter request list.
1724
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1725 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1726
1727- Some spelling fixes.
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1729 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1730
1731- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1732 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1733
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1734- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1735 domain-search option syntax.
1736
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1737 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1738
1739- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1740 hash table was repaired.
1741
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1742- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1743 entering normal state.
1744
1745- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1746 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1747 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1748
1749- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1750 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1752- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1753 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1754 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1755 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1756
45d545f0 1757- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1758 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1759 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1760 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1761 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1762 to their needs.
1763
1764- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1765 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1766 run will attempt balance.
1767
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1768- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1769
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1770 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1771
1772- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1773 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1774 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1775 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1776
98bd7ca0 1777- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1778 was introduced.
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1779
1780- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1781 via OMAPI.
1782
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1783- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1784 the protocol draft.
1785
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1786- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1787 one does not already exist on the system.
1788
b43c87ad 1789- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1790
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1791- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1792 matches RFC 3074.
1793
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1794- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1795 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1796 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1798- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1799 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1800 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1801
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1802- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1803 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1804 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1805 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1806
1807- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1808 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1809 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1810 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1811
f7fdb216 1812- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1813 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1814 DHCPv6 support.
1815
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1816- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1817 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1818 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1819
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1820- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1821 have been incorporated.
1822
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1823- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1824 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1825 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1826 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1827 that belong to the peer in need.
1828
1829- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1830 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1831
1832- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1833 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1834 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1835
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1836- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1837 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1838
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1839- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1840 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1841 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1842 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1843 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1844
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1845- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1846 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1847 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1848 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1849
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1850- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1851 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1852 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1853 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1854 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1855 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1856 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1857 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1858 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1859
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1860- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1861 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1862
41e45067 1863- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1864 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1865 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1866 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1867
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1868- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1869 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1870 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1871 hardware and funding the development.
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1873- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1874 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1875 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1876 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1877 via Robin Breathe.
1878
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1879- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1880 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1881 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1882 from Christof Chen.
1883
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1884- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1885 formally supported.
1886
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1887 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1888
1889- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1890 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1891
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1892 Changes since 3.0.5
1893
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1894- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1895 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1896 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1897 they actually received.
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1898
1899- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1900
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1901- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1902 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1903 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1904 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1905
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1906- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1907
d69fb6a8 1908- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1909 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1910
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1911- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1912 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1913 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1914 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1915 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1916 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1917 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1918 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1919
1920- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1921 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1922 'file' field.
02428754 1923
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1924- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1925 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1926
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1927- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1928 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1929 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1930
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1931- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1932 from Chris Wagner.
1933
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1934- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1935 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1936 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1937
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1938- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1939 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1940 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1941 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1942 was set.
1943
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1944- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1945 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1946
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1947- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1948 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1949 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1950 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1951 active ones.
1952
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0a73b7b6 1954
901306d5 1955- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1956 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1957 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1958 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1959 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1960
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1961- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1962 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1963
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1964 Changes since 3.0.4
1965
1966- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1967 scopes are actually global has been added.
1968
1969- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1970 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1971 known to be damaging.
1972
1973- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1974 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1975 balancing).
1976
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1977- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1978 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1979 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1980
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1981- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1982 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1983 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1984
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1985- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1986 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1987 more clear now.
1988
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1989- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1990 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1991 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1992 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1993 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1994 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1995
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1996- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1997 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1998
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1999- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2000 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2001 made possible.
2002
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2003- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2004 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2005 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2006
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2007- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2008 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2009
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2010- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2011 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2012 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2013
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2014- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2015 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2016 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2017 value with the later configured value).
2018
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2019- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2020 have been named and documented.
2021
2022- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2023 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2024 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2025 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2026 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2027 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2028 write new output.
2029
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2030 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2031
2032- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2033 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2034
2035 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2036
2037- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2038 mailing list.
2039
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2040 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2041
45d545f0 2042- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2043 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2044
2045- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2046 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2047
2048- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2049 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2050 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2051 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2052
2053- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2054 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2055 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2056 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2057 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2058 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2059 transition (properly).
2060
2061- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2062
2063 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2064
2065- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2066 STDIN after reading one line.
2067
2068- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2069 descriptor it opened twice.
2070
2071- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2072 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2073 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2074
2075 Changes since 3.0.3
2076
2077- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2078 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2079 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2080
2081- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2082 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2083 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2084
2085- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2086 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2087 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2088 leases to allocate.
2089
2090- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2091 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2092 than the entire block of them.
2093
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2094! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2095 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2096 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2097 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2098 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2099 to a patch from infamous42md.
2100
2101! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2102 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2103 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2104 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2105 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2106 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2107
2108- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2109 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2110 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2111
2112- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2113 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2114
2115- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2116 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2117 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2118 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2119 transitional states.
2120
2121- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2122 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2123 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2124
2125- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2126 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2127 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2128
2129- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2130 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2131
2132- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2133 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2134
2135- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2136 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2137 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2138
2139- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2140 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2141
2142- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2143 repaired.
2144
2145- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2146 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2147 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2148 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2149
2150- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2151 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2152 data.
2153
2154- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2155 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2156 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2157 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2158 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2159
2160- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2161 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2162 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2163 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2164 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2165
2166- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2167 has been repaired.
2168
2169- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2170 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2171 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2172 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2173 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2174
2175- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2176 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 2178- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2179 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2180 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2181 move to 3.[01].x.
2182
2183- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2184 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2185
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2186 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2187
2188- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2189 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2190
2191- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2192 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2193 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2194 workaround.
2195
2196 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2197
2198- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2199 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2200
2201 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2202
2203- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2204 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2205 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2206
2207- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2208 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2209 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2210
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2211 Changes since 3.0.2
2212
2213- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2214 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2215 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2216
2217- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2218 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2219 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2220 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2221 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2222
2223- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2224 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2225 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2226
2227- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2228 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2229 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2230
2231- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2232 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2233 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2234 Peter Poeml.
2235
2236- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2237 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2238
2239- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2240 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2241 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2242 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2243 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2244 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2245
2246- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2247 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2248 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2249 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2250
2251- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2252 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2253 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2254 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2255
2256- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2257 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2258
2259- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2260 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2261 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2262
2263- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2264 7 bytes, and failover.
2265
2266- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2267 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2268 at Red Hat.
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2269
2270- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2271 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2272 should work better.
2273
2274- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2275 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2276 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2277
2278- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2279 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2280 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2281
2282 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2283
2284- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2285 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2286
2287 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2288
45d545f0 2289- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2290 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2291 overloading. This was repaired.
2292
2293- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2294 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2295 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2296 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2297 three chunks to fit.
2298
2299- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2300 were repaired.
2301
2302- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2303 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2304 leak).
2305
2306 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2307
2308- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2309 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2310
2311 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2312
2313- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2314
2315 Changes since 3.0.1
2316
2317- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2318 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2319 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2320
2321- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2322 name was not provided by the server.
2323
2324- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2325 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2326
2327- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2328 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2329
2330- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2331 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2332
2333- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2334
2335- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2336
2337- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2338 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2339 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2340 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2341 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2342
2343- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2344 the configuration be globally scoped.
2345
2346- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2347 Farkas.
2348
2349- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2350 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2351
2352- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2353 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2354
2355- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2356 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2357
2358- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2359 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2360 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2361 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2362
2363- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2364 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2365 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2366 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2367
2368- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2369 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2370 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2371
2372- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2373
2374- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2375 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2376 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2377
2378- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2379 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2380 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2381 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2382 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2383
2384- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2385 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2386
2387- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2388 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2389
2390- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2391 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2392 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2393 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2394
2395- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2396 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2397
2398- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2399 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2400 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2401
2402- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2403 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2404 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2405 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2406 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2407 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2408
2409- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2410 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2411 Infoblox.
2412
2413- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2414
2415- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2416 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2417 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2418 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2419 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2420 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2421 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2422
2423- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2424 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2425 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2426
2427- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2428 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2429 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2430
2431- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2432
2433 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2434
2435- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2436 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2437 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2438 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2439 systems either.
2440
2441- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2442
2443- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2444 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2445 is false.
2446
2447- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2448 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2449
2450- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2451
2452 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2453
2454! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2455 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2456 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2457 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2458 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2459 both finding and solving the problem.
2460
2461! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2462 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2463 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2464 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2465 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2466 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2467 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2468 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2469 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2470 published version of ISC DHCP.
2471
2472- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2473
2474- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2475
2476 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2477
2478- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2479 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2480 Richard Hirst.
2481
2482- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2483 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2484 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2485
2486- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2487
2488- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2489 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2490 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2491 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2492
2493- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2494 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2495
2496- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2497 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2498
2499- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2500
2501 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2502
2503- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2504 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2505
2506- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2507 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2508 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2509
2510- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2511 by name was fixed.
2512
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2514 longer result in error.
2515
2516- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2517
2518- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2519 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2520 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2521
2522- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2523 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2524
2525- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2526 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2527 Blapp.
2528
2529- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2530 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2531 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2532 Martin Blapp.
2533
2534- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2535 expiry times in failover configurations.
2536
2537- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2538 Steve G.
2539
2540- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2541 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2542
2543- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2544 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2545 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2546 now "unknown-144".
2547
2548- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2549 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2550
2551 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2552
2553- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2554
2555- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2556 not be bash.
2557
2558- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2559
2560- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2561 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2562 that errored before will now work properly.
2563
2564- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2565 names was repaired.
2566
2567- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2568 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2569 configuration file.
2570
2571- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2572 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2573
2574- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2575 error rather than a null dereference.
2576
2577 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2578
2579- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2580
2581- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2582
2583- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2584 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2585
2586- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2587
2588- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2589
2590- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2591 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2592 self-corrupting lease databases.
2593
2594- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2595
2596- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2597 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2598
2599- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2600
2601- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2602
2603- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2604 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2605 Ling Gou.
2606
2607- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2608 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2609
2610- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2611 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2612 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2613
2614- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2615 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2616
2617 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2618
2619- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2620 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2621
2622- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2623
2624- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2625 a memory leak.
2626
2627- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2628 script.
2629
2630- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2631
2632- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2633
2634- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2635
2636- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2637
2638- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2639
2640- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2641
2642- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2643
2644- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2645
2646- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2647
2648- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2649
2650- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2651
2652- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2653
2654 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2655
2656- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2657 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2658 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2659
2660 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2661
2662- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2663 to be renewed.
2664
2665- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2666 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2667
2668- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2669 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2670
2671- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2672 that two permit lists matched.
2673
2674- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2675 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2676
2677- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2678
2679- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2680 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2681
2682- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2683
2684- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2685
2686- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2687 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2688 going to update its A record.
2689
2690- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2691 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2692 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2693 DNS server.
2694
2695- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2696
2697- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2698
2699- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2700 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2701 NetBSD project).
2702
2703- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2704 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2705
2706- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2707 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2708
2709- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2710
2711- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2712
2713- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2714 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2715 failover protocol standard.
2716
2717- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2718 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2719 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2720
2721- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2722 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2723 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2724 do so.
2725
2726- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2727
2728 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2729
2730- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2731
2732- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2733 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2734
2735- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2736 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2737
2738- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2739 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2740 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2741
2742- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2743 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2744 network, merge the two pools.
2745
2746- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2747 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2748 fix this bug.
2749
2750 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2751
2752- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2753 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2754
2755- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2756 the same case.
2757
2758- Additional documentation.
2759
2760- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2761 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2762
2763 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2764
2765- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2766- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2767
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2769
2770- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2771 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2772 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2773 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2774 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2775
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2777
2778- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2779 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2780 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2781 wasn't the one that removed it.
2782
2783- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2784 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2785 were not configured.
2786
2787- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2788
2789- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2790 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2791 routing information.
2792
2793- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2794 request being sent.
2795
2796- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2797 done.
2798
2799- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2800 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2801 were pending.
2802
2803- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2804 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2805 problems with failover.
2806
2807- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2808 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2809 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2810
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2812
2813- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2814 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2815
2816- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2817 no object is open, it dumps core.
2818
2819- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2820
2821- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2822
2823- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2824
2825- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2826 a host object attribute with a null value.
2827
2828 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2829
2830- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2831
2832- Fix an obscure core dump.
2833
2834- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2835 when crucial information is left out.
2836
2837- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2838
2839- Documentation updates.
2840
2841 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2842
2843- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2844
2845- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2846 structure wasn't zeroed.
2847
2848- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2849 incorrectly.
2850
2851- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2852 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2853 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2854 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2855 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2856 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2857 restarted.
2858
2859 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2860
2861- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2862 in failover-enabled pools.
2863
2864- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2865 declarations).
2866
2867- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2868 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2869
2870- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2871 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2872
2873- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2874
2875- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2876 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2877
2878- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2879
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2881
2882- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2883
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2884 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2885
2886- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2887
2888- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2889
2890- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2891
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2892 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2893
2894- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2895 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2896 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2897
2898- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2899 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2900 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2901 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2902 string.
2903
2904- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2905
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2906 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2907
2908- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2909 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2910
2911- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2912 malformed packets.
2913
2914- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2915
2916- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2917 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2918 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2919
2920- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2921
2922- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2923
2924- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2925
2926- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2927 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2928
2929- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2930 tcp connections from being played back.
2931
2932- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2933 on exit.
2934
2935- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2936
2937- Add some configurability to the build system.
2938
2939- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2940
2941- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2942 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2943 hadn't been noticed until now.
2944
2945 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2946
2947- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2948 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2949
2950- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2951 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2952 conformant, but also didn't work).
2953
2954- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2955 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2956
2957- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2958 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2959
2960- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2961 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2962
2963- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2964 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2965
2966- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2967 doing failover.
2968
2969- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2970 running on alpha processors.
2971
2972- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2973 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2974
2975- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2976
2977- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2978
2979- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2980 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2981
2982- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2983
2984- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2985 actually named (key names are domain names).
2986
2987- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2988
2989- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2990 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2991
2992- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2993 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2994
2995- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2996 statements.
2997
2998- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2999 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3000
3001- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3002 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3003 operating.
3004
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3005 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3006
3007- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3008 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3009 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3010 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3011
3012- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3013 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3014
3015- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3016
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3017 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3018
3019- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3020 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3021
3022- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3023 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3024 to the chain.
3025
3026- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3027
3028- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3029
3030- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3031
98311e4b 3032- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3033 attribute values in omshell.
3034
98311e4b 3035- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3036
3037- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3038
3039 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3040
3041- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3042 DHCPDECLINE.
3043
3044- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3045
3046- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3047 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3048 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3049
3050- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3051
3052- Documentation fixes.
3053
3054- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3055 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3056
3057- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3058 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3059
3060- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3061
3062- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3063
3064- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3065 case-insensitive.
3066
3067- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3068
98311e4b 3069- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3070 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3071 consistently.
3072
3073- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3074 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3075
3076- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3077
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3078 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3079
3080- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3081 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3082 result of duplicate leases.
3083
3084- Document OMAPI server objects.
3085
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3086 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3087
3088- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3089 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3090
3091- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3092 core dumps.
3093
3094- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3095 Friedrich.
3096
3097- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3098
3099 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3100
3101- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3102 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3103 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3104 billing class code.
3105
3106- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3107 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3108
3109- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3110 trace file.
3111
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3114- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3115 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3116 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3117 e.g., Digital Unix.
3118
3119- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3120 when no error had occurred.
3121
3122- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3123 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3124 non-communicating state.
3125
3126- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3127
3128- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3129 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3130 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3131
3132- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3133 when the client lease expired.
3134
3135- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3136 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3137 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3138 in testing.
3139
3140- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3141 the command line, it would fail.
3142
3143- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3144 user impact).
3145
3146- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3147
3148- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3149 they're executable.
3150
3151 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3152
3153- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3154 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3155 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3156 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3157
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3158- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3159 Transmeta.
3160
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3161- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3162 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3163 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3164 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3165
3166- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3167 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3168
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3169 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3170
3171- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3172 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3173
3174- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3175
3176- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3177
3178- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3179
3180- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3181
3182- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3183
3184- Update some parts of the README file.
3185
3186- Support GCC on SCO.
3187
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3189
3190- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3191 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3192
3193- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3194 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3195 unbill the old class.
3196
3197- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3198 process the state transition immediately.
3199
3200- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3201 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3202
3203- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3204
3205- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3206
3207- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3208
3209- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3210
3211- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3212 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3213 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3214
3215- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3216 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3217
3218- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3219 lease file.
3220
3221- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3222
3223- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3226
3227- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3228 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3229
3230- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3231
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3233
3234- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3235
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3237
3238- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3239
3240- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3241 pl19.
3242
3243- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3244 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3245 past the regression test.
3246
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3248
3249- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3250 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3251
3252- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3253 DHCPREQUEST.
3254
3255- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3256
3257- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3258
3259- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3260
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3263- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3264 (Damien Neil)
3265
3266- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3267 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3268
3269- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3270 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3271 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3272
3273- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3274 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3275 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3276 message.
3277
3278- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3279 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3280 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3281
98311e4b 3282- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3283 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3284 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3285 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3286 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3287 this way will work.
3288
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3289- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3290
3291- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3292 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3293 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3294 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3295
3296 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3297
3298 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3299
3300- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3301 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3302 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3303
3304- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3305 Hermann Lauer.
3306
3307- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3308 messages.
3309
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3310- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3311 it contained quoted strings.
3312
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3313 ** there was no pl17 **
3314
adbef119 3315 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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3317- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3318 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3319 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3320 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3321 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3322 tracking down memory leaks.
3323
3324- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3325 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3326 Solaris.
3327
3328- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3329 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3330 corruption and core dumps.
3331
3332- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3333 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3334
3335- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3336
3337- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3338 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3339
3340- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3341 name and version to standard output.
3342
3343- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3344
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3345- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3346 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3347
6da9db9d
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3348- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3349
3350- Lots of documentation updates.
3351
3352- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3353 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3354
3355- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3356
3357- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3358 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3359
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3361
3362- Some documentation tweaks.
3363
3364- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3365
3366- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3367
3368- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3369 agent options into them.
3370
3371- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3372
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3373- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3374 options.
3375
adbef119 3376 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3377
3378- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3379 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3380 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3381 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3382 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3383
3384- Fix up documentation.
3385
3386- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3387 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3388
3389- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3390
3391- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3392
3393- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3394 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3395 practical use otherwise.
3396
3397- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3398 for debugging.
3399
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3401
3402- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3403 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3404 dump on some systems.
3405
3406- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3407 option.
3408
3409- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3410 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3411
3412- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3413 that were not printing enough information.
3414
3415- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3416 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3417
3418- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3419 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3420 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3421 were answering.
3422
3423- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3424 the transition.
3425
3426
adbef119 3427 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3428
3429- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3430
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3431 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3432
3433- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3434 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3435 representation from working correctly.
3436
3437- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3438 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3439 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3440 could spin.
3441
3442- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3443 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3444
3445- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3446 interface name on the command line.
3447
3448- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3449 client state.
3450
3451- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3452 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3453 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3454 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3455 added by Ted Lemon.
3456
3457- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3458 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3459
3460- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3461 end option.
3462
3463- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3464 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3465 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3466
3467- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3468 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3469 face of a null hardware address on input.
3470
3471- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3472 specified unqualified.
3473
3474- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3475 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3476
3477- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3478 RFC.
3479
3480- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3481
3482- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3483
3484- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3485 it works.
3486
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3487 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3488
3489- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3490 to CVS.
3491
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3492 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3493
3494- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3495
3496- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3497 in patchlevel 9.
3498
3499- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3500 options at renewal time.
3501
3502- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3503 configuration language.
3504
3505- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3506
3507- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3508 done when no client hostname was received.
3509
3510- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3511
3512- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3513 the DHCP option space.
3514
3515- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3516
3517- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3518 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3519
3520- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3521 silently dropped.
3522
3523- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3524 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3525
3526- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3527 will be correctly updated.
3528
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3529 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3530
3531- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3532 bounds-checking.
3533
3534 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3535
3536- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3537
3922772a 3538 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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3540- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3541 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3542 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3543
3544- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3545 option.
3546
3547- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3548 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3549 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3550 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3551 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3552 meaningfully.
3553
3554- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3555 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3556 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3557
3558- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3559 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3560 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3561 this one down!
3562
3563- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3564 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3565 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3566 down and fixing this problem.
3567
3568 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3569
0f6045f8
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3570- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3571 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3572
3573- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3574 environment.
3575
3576- Fix suffix operator.
3577
3578- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3579
3580- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3581 connection code.
3582
3583- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3584
3585- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3586
3587- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3588 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3589
3590- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3591
3592- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3593
3594- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3595 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3596
3597- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3598 spawn with.
3599
3600- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3601 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3602
3603- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3604 for OMAPI.
3605
3606- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3607 can install in host declarations.
3608
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3609 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3610
3611- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3612 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3613 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3614 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3615 comments)!
3616
3617- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3618
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3619- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3620 request for help on this with patches!
3621
3622- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3623 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3624 lost, they never reconnect.
3625
3626- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3627 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3628
3629- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3630 dump.
3631
3632- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3633 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3634 catching this one.
3635
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3636 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3637
3638- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3639 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3640 lease renewal time.
3641
3642- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3643 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3644 declared without a key.
3645
3646- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3647
3648- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3649 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3650
3651- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3652 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3653 determine the maximum size of the response.
3654
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3655 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3656
359b023e
TL
3657- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3658 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3659
592d8153
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3660- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3661 RENEWING client.
3662
3663- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3664
3665- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3666 using memcmp().
3667
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3668 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3669
3670- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3671 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3672 pointing this out.
3673
3674- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3675 exit.
3676
3677- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3678
3679- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3680 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.