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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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77
78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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83
84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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102 Changes since 4.2.0
103
104- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
105 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
106 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
107 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
108 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
109 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
110
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111- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
112 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
113 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
114 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
115 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
116 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
117
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118- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
119 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
120 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
121
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122- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
123 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
124 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
125 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
126
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127- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
128 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
129
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130- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
131 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
132 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
133
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134- Minor code fixes
135 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
136 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
138 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
139 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
140 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
141 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
142 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
143 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
144 Thanks to Martin Pala.
145 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
146 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
147
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148- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
149
150- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
151 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
152
153- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
154 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
155
156- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
157 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
158
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159- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
160 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
161 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
162
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163- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
164 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
165
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166- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
167 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
168 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
169
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170- Fixes to lease input and output.
171 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
172 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
173 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
174 characters.
175 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
176 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
177
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178- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
179 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
180 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
181 at Red Hat.
182 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
183 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
184 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
185 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
186
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187- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
188 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
189 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
190 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
191
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192! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
193 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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194 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
195 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
196
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197- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
198 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
199 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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201- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
202 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
203 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
204 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
205 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
206
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207- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
208 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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209 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
210 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
211 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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213! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
214 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
215 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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216 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
217 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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218 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
219
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220- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
221 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
222 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
223
224- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
225 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
226 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
227
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228- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
229 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
230 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
231
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232- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
233 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
234 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
235 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
236 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
237
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238- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
239 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
240 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
241 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
242
c8b189f1 243! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 244 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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245 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
246 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 247 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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248 and reset it's timeout value.
249 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
250
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251- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
252 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
253 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
254 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
255
256 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
257 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
258 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
259
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260- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
261 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
262 when removing the ddns information.
263 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
264
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265- Some fixes for LDAP
266 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
267 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
268 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
269
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270- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
271 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
272
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273 Changes since 4.2.0b2
274
275- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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277 Changes since 4.2.0b1
278
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279- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
280 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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282! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
283 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 284 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 285 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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287- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
288
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289- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
290 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
291 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
292 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
293 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
294
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295- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
296 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
297 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
298 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
299 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
300
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301- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
302
600ee619 303- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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304 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
305
306- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
307 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
308 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
309 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
310 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
311 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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313- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
314 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
315
316 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
317 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
318
319 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
320 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
321
322 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
323 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
324
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325 Changes since 4.2.0a2
326
327- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
328 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
329
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330- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
331 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
332 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 333 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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335- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
336 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
337 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
338 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
339 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
340 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
341 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
342 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
343 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
344
3c941d42 345 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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347- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
348 is no longer truncated to one octet.
349
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350- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
351
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352- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
353 reflect support for prefix delegation.
354
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355- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
356
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357- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
358 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
359 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
360 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
361 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
362 entry for each lease.
363
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364- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
365
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366 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
367
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368- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
369 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 370 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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372- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
373 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
374 Cantrell at Red Hat.
375
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376- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
377 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
378
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379- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
380
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381- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
382 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
383 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
384 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
385 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
386 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
387
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388- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
389 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
390 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
391 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
392 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
393 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
394 FQDN options by default).
395
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396- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
397 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
398 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
399 determined lease time) are omitted.
400
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401- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
402 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
403 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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405- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
406 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
407 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
408
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409 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
410
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411- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
412
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413- Validate the argument to the -p option.
414
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415- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
416 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
417 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
418 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
419 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
420
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421- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
422
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423- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
424 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
425 had been deleted from configuration.
426
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427- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
428 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 429 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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430 were being ignored.
431
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432- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
433
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434- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
435 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
436 Nordahl.
437
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438- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
439 dhcpv6 disabled.
440
8d7dca58 441- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 442 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 443
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444- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
445 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
446
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447- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
448 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
449 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
450
451- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
452 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
453 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
454 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
455 fewer system calls.
456
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457- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
458 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
459 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
460 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
461 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
462 Christof Chen.
463
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464- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
465 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
466 and in normal state.
467
468- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
469 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
470
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471- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
472
473- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
474 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
475 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
476
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477- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
478 rather than restarting the listener.
479
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480- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
481 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
482
483- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
484 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
485 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
486
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487- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
488 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
489 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
490 timeouts).
491
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492- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
493 in failover state records.
494
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495! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
496 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
497 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 498 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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500- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
501 processing a DHCPINFORM.
502
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503- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
504 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
505 last option definition is used.
506
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507- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
508 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
509 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
510
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511- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
512 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
513
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514- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
515 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
516 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
517 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
518 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
519 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
520
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521- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
522 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
523 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
524 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
525
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526! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
527 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 528
875e99dc
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529- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
530 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
531
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532- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
533 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
534 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
535 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
536 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 537 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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538 configuration.
539
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540- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
541 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
542
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543- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
544 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
545 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
546 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
547
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548- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
549 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
550 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
551 was always properly set.
552
adbef119 553 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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554
555- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
556 be recognized.
61d75ea2 557
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558 Changes since 4.1.0a2
559
560- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
561 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
562 "abandoned".
563
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564- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
565
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566- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
567 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
568
569- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
570 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
571
572- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 573 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 574
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575- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
576
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577- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
578 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
579 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
580 in future releases.
581
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582- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
583 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
584
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585- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
586 'dhclient -6' support.
587
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588- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
589 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
590 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
591 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
592
7d6180be 593 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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594
595- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
596
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597- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
598
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599- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
600 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
601 only the latter. Fixed.
602
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603- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
604
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605- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
606 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
607
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608- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
609
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610- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
611
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612- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
613 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
614 --enable-early-chroot.
615
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616- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
617 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
618
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619- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
620 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
621 parameter.
622
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623- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
624 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
625
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626- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
627 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
628
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629- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
630
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631- Merged IA_XX related structures.
632
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633- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
634
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635- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
636
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637- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
638 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
639 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
640
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641- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
642 support.
643
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644- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
645 repaired.
646
80097764
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647- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
648
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649- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
650
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651- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
652 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
653
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654- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
655 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
656
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657- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
658 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
659
660- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
661 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
662 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
663 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
664 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
665 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
666 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
667 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
668 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
669 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
670 shared-network.
671
672- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
673 configured option values.
674
675- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
676 support class statements.
677
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678- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
679 selection were repaired.
680
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681- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
682 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
683 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
684 by the OS.
685
686- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
687 address.
688
689- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
690 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
691
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692- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
693
694- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
695
696- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
697 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
698
01a54c17 699 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 700
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701- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
702
4cafb815 703- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 704 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 705
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706- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
707 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
708 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
709
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710- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
711 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
712
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713- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
714
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715- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
716 reserved IDs avoided).
717
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718- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
719
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720- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
721 carries a rapid-commit option.
722
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723- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
724 an empty active lease.
725
be62cf06
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726- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
727
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728- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
729 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
730 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
731 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
732
733- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
734
735- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
736 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
737 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
738 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
739 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
740 Christof Chen.
741
742 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
743
744- DHCP now builds on AIX.
745
746- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
747 config file but -6 is not specified.
748
749- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
750
751- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
752 be more helpful.
753
754- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
755 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
756 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
757
758- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
759 was repaired.
760
761- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
762 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
763 been repaired.
764
765- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
766 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
767 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
768
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769- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
770 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
771
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772- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
773 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
774 IPv4 address.
775
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776- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
777 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
778 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
779 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
780 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
781
782- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
783 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
784 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
785
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786- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
787
c4d29896
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788- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
789
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790- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
791 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
792 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
793 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
794 unnecessary logging.
795
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796- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
797 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
798
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799- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
800 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
801 is incompatible is printed.
802
803- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
804 a previously undefined option code.
805
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806- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
807 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
808
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809- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
810 than the year 2000.
811
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812- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
813
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814- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
815
5d89d60f
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816- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
817
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818 Changes since 4.0.0b3
819
820- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
821 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
822 configuration.
76db44f9 823
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824- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
825 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
826
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827- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
828 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
829 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 830
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831- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
832 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
833 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
834 a requested address.
835
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836- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
837 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
838 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
839 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
840
841- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
842 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
843 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
844 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
845
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846- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
847 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
848 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
849
c0216cb7
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850- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
851 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
852
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853- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
854
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855- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
856 codes through some conditions.
857
c54db708
FD
858- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
859 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
860
e5d83524
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861- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
862 seemingly random values.
863
821f2dda
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864- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
865
f8b3c6f4
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866- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
867 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
868 one ever has.
869
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870- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
871 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
872 to a REQUEST.
873
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874- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
875 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
876 level.
877
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878 Changes since 4.0.0b2
879
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880- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
881
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882- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
883 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
884 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
885 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
886 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
887
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888- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
889 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
890 new address.
891
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892 Changes since 4.0.0b1
893
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894- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
895 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
896 simultaneously on a single interface.
897
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898- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
899 of service under unusual server configurations
900
901- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
902
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903- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
904 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 905
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906- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
907 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
908 on every pool rebalance run.
909
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910- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
911 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
912
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913- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
914 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
915
ab3a540f 916 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 917
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918- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
919 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
920
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921- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
922 point out the problem.
923
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924- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
925 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
926 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
927
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928- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
929 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
930
eaf7eb17
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931- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
932 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
933 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
934
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935- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
936
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937- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
938 fixed by Marcus Goller.
939
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940- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
941 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
942 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
943 regardless of the existence of bindings.
944
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945- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
946
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947- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
948 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
949 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
950 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
951 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
952
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953- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
954
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955 Changes since 4.0.0a2
956
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957- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
958 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
959
763cba6b 960- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 961
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962- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
963 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
964 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
965
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966- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
967
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968- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
969 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
970
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971- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
972 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
973 loaded from persistent storage.
974
45d545f0 975- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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976 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
977 necessary.
978
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979- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
980 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
981 rapid-commit option.
982
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983- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
984 non-128-bits in length were removed.
985
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986 Changes since 4.0.0a1
987
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988- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
989 and fix.
990
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991- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
992
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993- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
994
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995- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
996 for when loading configuration.
997
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998- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
999 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1000 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1001
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1002- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1003 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1004 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1005 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1006
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1007- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1008
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1009- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1010 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1011
c11f349d
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1012- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1013
af5fa176
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1014- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1015
1016- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1017 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1018
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1019- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1020 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1021
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1022- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1023
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1024- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1025 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1026
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1027 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1028
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1029- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1030
8c1752d2
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1031- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1032 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1033
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1034- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1035
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1036- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1037 initialized.
1038
1039- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1040
1041- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1042 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1043
1044- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1046- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1047
1048- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1049 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1050
1051- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1052
8ea19a71 1053- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1054 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1055
1056- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1057 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1058
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1059- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1060
1061- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1062
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1063- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1064
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1065 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1066
1067- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1068 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1069 no support currently for both.
1070
1071- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1072 IAADDR option.
1073
1074- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1075 options.
1076
1077- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1078
1079- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1080 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1081
1082- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1083 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1084 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1085
1086- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1087 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1088
1089- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1090 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1091 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1092 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1093 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1094 differently, they both use the same code here).
1095
1096- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1097 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1098 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1099
1100- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1101
1102- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1103 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1104 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1105 it should not intercept.
1106
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1107 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1108
1109- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1110 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1111 between primary and secondary.
1112
1113- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1114 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1115 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1116
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1117- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1118
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1119- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1120 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1121 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1122 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1123 or REQUEST messages.
1124
1125- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1126 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1127
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1128- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1129
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1130 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1131
1132- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1133 failover protected subnets was removed.
1134
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1135 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1136
1137- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1138 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1139 odd number of leases).
1140
1141- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1142 rebalance run, and one after.
1143
1144- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1145 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1146 processing these messages.
1147
fe5b0fdd 1148 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1149
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1150- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1151 objects.
1152
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1153- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1154 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1155 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1156 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1157 at Allianz.
1158
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1159- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1160 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1161
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1162- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1163 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1164
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1165- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1166 caused the server to abort.
1167
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1168- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1169 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1170 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1171
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1172- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1173 by empty spaces would not get included.
1174
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1175- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1176 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1177
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1178- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1179 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1180
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1181- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1182 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1183
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1184- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1185 on the parameter request list.
1186
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1187 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1188
1189- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 1190
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1191 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1192
1193- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1194 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1195
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1196- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1197 domain-search option syntax.
1198
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1199 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1200
1201- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1202 hash table was repaired.
1203
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1204- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1205 entering normal state.
1206
1207- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1208 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1209 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1210
1211- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1212 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1214- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1215 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1216 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1217 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1218
45d545f0 1219- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1220 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1221 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1222 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1223 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1224 to their needs.
1225
1226- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1227 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1228 run will attempt balance.
1229
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1230- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1231
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1232 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1233
1234- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1235 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1236 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1237 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1238
98bd7ca0 1239- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1240 was introduced.
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1241
1242- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1243 via OMAPI.
1244
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1245- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1246 the protocol draft.
1247
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1248- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1249 one does not already exist on the system.
1250
b43c87ad 1251- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1252
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1253- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1254 matches RFC 3074.
1255
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1256- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1257 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1258 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1259
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1260- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1261 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1262 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1263
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1264- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1265 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1266 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1267 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1268
1269- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1270 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1271 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1272 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1273
f7fdb216 1274- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1275 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1276 DHCPv6 support.
1277
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1278- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1279 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1280 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1281
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1282- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1283 have been incorporated.
1284
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1285- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1286 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1287 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1288 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1289 that belong to the peer in need.
1290
1291- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1292 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1293
1294- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1295 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1296 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1297
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1298- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1299 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1300
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1301- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1302 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1303 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1304 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1305 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1306
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1307- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1308 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1309 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1310 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1311
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1312- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1313 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1314 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1315 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1316 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1317 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1318 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1319 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1320 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1321
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1322- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1323 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1324
41e45067 1325- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1326 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1327 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1328 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1329
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1330- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1331 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1332 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1333 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1334
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1335- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1336 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1337 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1338 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1339 via Robin Breathe.
1340
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1341- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1342 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1343 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1344 from Christof Chen.
1345
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1346- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1347 formally supported.
1348
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1349 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1350
1351- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1352 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1353
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1354 Changes since 3.0.5
1355
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1356- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1357 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1358 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1359 they actually received.
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1360
1361- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1362
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1363- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1364 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1365 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1366 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1367
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1368- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1369
d69fb6a8 1370- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1371 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1372
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1373- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1374 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1375 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1376 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1377 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1378 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1379 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1380 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1381
1382- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1383 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1384 'file' field.
02428754 1385
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1386- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1387 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1388
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1389- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1390 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1391 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1392
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1393- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1394 from Chris Wagner.
1395
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1396- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1397 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1398 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1399
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1400- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1401 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1402 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1403 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1404 was set.
1405
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1406- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1407 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1408
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1409- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1410 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1411 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1412 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1413 active ones.
1414
02428754 1415 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1416
901306d5 1417- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1418 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1419 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1420 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1421 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1422
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1423- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1424 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1425
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1426 Changes since 3.0.4
1427
1428- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1429 scopes are actually global has been added.
1430
1431- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1432 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1433 known to be damaging.
1434
1435- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1436 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1437 balancing).
1438
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1439- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1440 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1441 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1442
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1443- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1444 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1445 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1446
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1447- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1448 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1449 more clear now.
1450
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1451- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1452 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1453 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1454 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1455 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1456 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1457
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1458- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1459 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1460
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1461- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1462 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1463 made possible.
1464
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1465- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1466 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1467 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1468
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1469- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1470 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1471
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1472- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1473 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1474 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1475
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1476- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1477 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1478 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1479 value with the later configured value).
1480
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1481- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1482 have been named and documented.
1483
1484- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1485 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1486 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1487 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1488 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1489 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1490 write new output.
1491
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1492 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1493
1494- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1495 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1496
1497 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1498
1499- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1500 mailing list.
1501
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1502 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1503
45d545f0 1504- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1505 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1506
1507- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1508 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1509
1510- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1511 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1512 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1513 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1514
1515- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1516 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1517 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1518 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1519 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1520 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1521 transition (properly).
1522
1523- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1524
1525 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1526
1527- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1528 STDIN after reading one line.
1529
1530- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1531 descriptor it opened twice.
1532
1533- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1534 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1535 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1536
1537 Changes since 3.0.3
1538
1539- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1540 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1541 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1542
1543- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1544 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1545 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1546
1547- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1548 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1549 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1550 leases to allocate.
1551
1552- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1553 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1554 than the entire block of them.
1555
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1556! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1557 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1558 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1559 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1560 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1561 to a patch from infamous42md.
1562
1563! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1564 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1565 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1566 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1567 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1568 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1569
1570- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1571 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1572 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1573
1574- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1575 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1576
1577- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1578 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1579 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1580 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1581 transitional states.
1582
1583- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1584 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1585 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1586
1587- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1588 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1589 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1590
1591- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1592 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1593
1594- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1595 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1596
1597- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1598 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1599 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1600
1601- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1602 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1603
1604- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1605 repaired.
1606
1607- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1608 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1609 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1610 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1611
1612- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1613 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1614 data.
1615
1616- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1617 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1618 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1619 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1620 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1621
1622- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1623 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1624 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1625 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1626 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1627
1628- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1629 has been repaired.
1630
1631- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1632 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1633 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1634 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1635 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1636
1637- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1638 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1640- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1641 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1642 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1643 move to 3.[01].x.
1644
1645- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1646 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1647
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1648 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1649
1650- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1651 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1652
1653- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1654 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1655 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1656 workaround.
1657
1658 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1659
1660- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1661 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1662
1663 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1664
1665- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1666 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1667 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1668
1669- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1670 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1671 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1672
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1673 Changes since 3.0.2
1674
1675- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1676 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1677 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1678
1679- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1680 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1681 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1682 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1683 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1684
1685- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1686 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1687 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1688
1689- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1690 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1691 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1692
1693- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1694 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1695 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1696 Peter Poeml.
1697
1698- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1699 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1700
1701- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1702 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1703 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1704 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1705 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1706 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1707
1708- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1709 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1710 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1711 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1712
1713- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1714 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1715 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1716 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1717
1718- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1719 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1720
1721- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1722 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1723 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1724
1725- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1726 7 bytes, and failover.
1727
1728- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1729 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1730 at Red Hat.
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1731
1732- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1733 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1734 should work better.
1735
1736- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1737 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1738 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1739
1740- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1741 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1742 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1743
1744 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1745
1746- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1747 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1748
1749 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1750
45d545f0 1751- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1752 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1753 overloading. This was repaired.
1754
1755- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1756 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1757 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1758 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1759 three chunks to fit.
1760
1761- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1762 were repaired.
1763
1764- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1765 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1766 leak).
1767
1768 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1769
1770- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1771 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1772
1773 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1774
1775- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1776
1777 Changes since 3.0.1
1778
1779- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1780 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1781 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1782
1783- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1784 name was not provided by the server.
1785
1786- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1787 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1788
1789- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1790 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1791
1792- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1793 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1794
1795- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1796
1797- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1798
1799- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1800 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1801 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1802 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1803 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1804
1805- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1806 the configuration be globally scoped.
1807
1808- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1809 Farkas.
1810
1811- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1812 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1813
1814- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1815 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1816
1817- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1818 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1819
1820- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1821 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1822 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1823 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1824
1825- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1826 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1827 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1828 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1829
1830- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1831 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1832 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1833
1834- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1835
1836- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1837 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1838 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1839
1840- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1841 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1842 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1843 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1844 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1845
1846- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1847 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1848
1849- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1850 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1851
1852- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1853 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1854 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1855 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1856
1857- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1858 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1859
1860- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1861 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1862 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1863
1864- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1865 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1866 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1867 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1868 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1869 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1870
1871- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1872 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1873 Infoblox.
1874
1875- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1876
1877- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1878 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1879 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1880 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1881 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1882 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1883 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1884
1885- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1886 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1887 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1888
1889- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1890 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1891 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1892
1893- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1894
1895 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1896
1897- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1898 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1899 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1900 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1901 systems either.
1902
1903- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1904
1905- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1906 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1907 is false.
1908
1909- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1910 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1911
1912- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1913
1914 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1915
1916! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1917 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1918 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1919 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1920 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1921 both finding and solving the problem.
1922
1923! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1924 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1925 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1926 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1927 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1928 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1929 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1930 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1931 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1932 published version of ISC DHCP.
1933
1934- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1935
1936- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1937
1938 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1939
1940- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1941 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1942 Richard Hirst.
1943
1944- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1945 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1946 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1947
1948- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1949
1950- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1951 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1952 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1953 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1954
1955- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1956 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1957
1958- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1959 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1960
1961- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1962
1963 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1964
1965- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1966 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1967
1968- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1969 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1970 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1971
1972- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1973 by name was fixed.
1974
45d545f0 1975- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1976 longer result in error.
1977
1978- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1979
1980- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1981 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1982 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1983
1984- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1985 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1986
1987- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1988 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1989 Blapp.
1990
1991- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1992 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1993 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1994 Martin Blapp.
1995
1996- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1997 expiry times in failover configurations.
1998
1999- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2000 Steve G.
2001
2002- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2003 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2004
2005- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2006 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2007 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2008 now "unknown-144".
2009
2010- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2011 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2012
2013 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2014
2015- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2016
2017- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2018 not be bash.
2019
2020- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2021
2022- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2023 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2024 that errored before will now work properly.
2025
2026- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2027 names was repaired.
2028
2029- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2030 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2031 configuration file.
2032
2033- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2034 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2035
2036- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2037 error rather than a null dereference.
2038
2039 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2040
2041- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2042
2043- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2044
2045- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2046 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2047
2048- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2049
2050- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2051
2052- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2053 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2054 self-corrupting lease databases.
2055
2056- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2057
2058- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2059 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2060
2061- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2062
2063- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2064
2065- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2066 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2067 Ling Gou.
2068
2069- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2070 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2071
2072- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2073 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2074 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2075
2076- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2077 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2078
2079 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2080
2081- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2082 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2083
2084- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2085
2086- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2087 a memory leak.
2088
2089- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2090 script.
2091
2092- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2093
2094- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2095
2096- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2097
2098- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2099
2100- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2101
2102- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2103
2104- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2105
2106- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2107
2108- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2109
2110- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2111
2112- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2113
2114- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2115
2116 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2117
2118- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2119 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2120 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2121
2122 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2123
2124- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2125 to be renewed.
2126
2127- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2128 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2129
2130- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2131 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2132
2133- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2134 that two permit lists matched.
2135
2136- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2137 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2138
2139- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2140
2141- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2142 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2143
2144- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2145
2146- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2147
2148- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2149 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2150 going to update its A record.
2151
2152- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2153 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2154 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2155 DNS server.
2156
2157- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2158
2159- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2160
2161- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2162 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2163 NetBSD project).
2164
2165- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2166 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2167
2168- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2169 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2170
2171- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2172
2173- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2174
2175- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2176 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2177 failover protocol standard.
2178
2179- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2180 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2181 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2182
2183- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2184 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2185 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2186 do so.
2187
2188- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2189
2190 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2191
2192- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2193
2194- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2195 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2196
2197- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2198 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2199
2200- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2201 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2202 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2203
2204- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2205 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2206 network, merge the two pools.
2207
2208- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2209 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2210 fix this bug.
2211
2212 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2213
2214- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2215 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2216
2217- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2218 the same case.
2219
2220- Additional documentation.
2221
2222- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2223 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2224
2225 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2226
2227- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2228- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2229
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2231
2232- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2233 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2234 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2235 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2236 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2237
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2239
2240- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2241 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2242 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2243 wasn't the one that removed it.
2244
2245- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2246 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2247 were not configured.
2248
2249- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2250
2251- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2252 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2253 routing information.
2254
2255- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2256 request being sent.
2257
2258- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2259 done.
2260
2261- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2262 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2263 were pending.
2264
2265- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2266 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2267 problems with failover.
2268
2269- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2270 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2271 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2272
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2274
2275- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2276 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2277
2278- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2279 no object is open, it dumps core.
2280
2281- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2282
2283- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2284
2285- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2286
2287- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2288 a host object attribute with a null value.
2289
2290 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2291
2292- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2293
2294- Fix an obscure core dump.
2295
2296- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2297 when crucial information is left out.
2298
2299- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2300
2301- Documentation updates.
2302
2303 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2304
2305- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2306
2307- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2308 structure wasn't zeroed.
2309
2310- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2311 incorrectly.
2312
2313- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2314 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2315 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2316 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2317 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2318 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2319 restarted.
2320
2321 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2322
2323- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2324 in failover-enabled pools.
2325
2326- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2327 declarations).
2328
2329- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2330 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2331
2332- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2333 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2334
2335- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2336
2337- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2338 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2339
2340- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2341
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2343
2344- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2345
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2346 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2347
2348- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2349
2350- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2351
2352- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2353
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2354 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2355
2356- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2357 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2358 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2359
2360- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2361 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2362 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2363 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2364 string.
2365
2366- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2367
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2368 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2369
2370- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2371 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2372
2373- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2374 malformed packets.
2375
2376- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2377
2378- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2379 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2380 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2381
2382- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2383
2384- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2385
2386- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2387
2388- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2389 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2390
2391- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2392 tcp connections from being played back.
2393
2394- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2395 on exit.
2396
2397- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2398
2399- Add some configurability to the build system.
2400
2401- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2402
2403- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2404 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2405 hadn't been noticed until now.
2406
2407 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2408
2409- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2410 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2411
2412- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2413 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2414 conformant, but also didn't work).
2415
2416- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2417 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2418
2419- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2420 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2421
2422- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2423 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2424
2425- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2426 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2427
2428- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2429 doing failover.
2430
2431- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2432 running on alpha processors.
2433
2434- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2435 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2436
2437- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2438
2439- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2440
2441- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2442 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2443
2444- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2445
2446- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2447 actually named (key names are domain names).
2448
2449- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2450
2451- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2452 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2453
2454- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2455 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2456
2457- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2458 statements.
2459
2460- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2461 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2462
2463- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2464 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2465 operating.
2466
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2468
2469- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2470 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2471 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2472 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2473
2474- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2475 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2476
2477- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2478
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2479 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2480
2481- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2482 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2483
2484- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2485 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2486 to the chain.
2487
2488- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2489
2490- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2491
2492- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2493
98311e4b 2494- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2495 attribute values in omshell.
2496
98311e4b 2497- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2498
2499- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2500
2501 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2502
2503- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2504 DHCPDECLINE.
2505
2506- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2507
2508- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2509 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2510 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2511
2512- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2513
2514- Documentation fixes.
2515
2516- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2517 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2518
2519- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2520 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2521
2522- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2523
2524- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2525
2526- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2527 case-insensitive.
2528
2529- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2530
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2532 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2533 consistently.
2534
2535- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2536 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2537
2538- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2539
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2540 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2541
2542- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2543 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2544 result of duplicate leases.
2545
2546- Document OMAPI server objects.
2547
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2548 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2549
2550- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2551 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2552
2553- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2554 core dumps.
2555
2556- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2557 Friedrich.
2558
2559- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2560
2561 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2562
2563- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2564 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2565 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2566 billing class code.
2567
2568- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2569 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2570
2571- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2572 trace file.
2573
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2576- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2577 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2578 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2579 e.g., Digital Unix.
2580
2581- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2582 when no error had occurred.
2583
2584- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2585 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2586 non-communicating state.
2587
2588- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2589
2590- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2591 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2592 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2593
2594- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2595 when the client lease expired.
2596
2597- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2598 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2599 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2600 in testing.
2601
2602- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2603 the command line, it would fail.
2604
2605- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2606 user impact).
2607
2608- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2609
2610- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2611 they're executable.
2612
2613 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2614
2615- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2616 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2617 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2618 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2619
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2620- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2621 Transmeta.
2622
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2623- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2624 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2625 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2626 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2627
2628- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2629 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2630
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2631 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2632
2633- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2634 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2635
2636- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2637
2638- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2639
2640- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2641
2642- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2643
2644- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2645
2646- Update some parts of the README file.
2647
2648- Support GCC on SCO.
2649
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2651
2652- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2653 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2654
2655- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2656 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2657 unbill the old class.
2658
2659- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2660 process the state transition immediately.
2661
2662- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2663 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2664
2665- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2666
2667- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2668
2669- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2670
2671- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2672
2673- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2674 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2675 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2676
2677- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2678 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2679
2680- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2681 lease file.
2682
2683- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2684
2685- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2688
2689- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2690 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2691
2692- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2693
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2695
2696- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2697
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2699
2700- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2701
2702- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2703 pl19.
2704
2705- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2706 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2707 past the regression test.
2708
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2710
2711- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2712 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2713
2714- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2715 DHCPREQUEST.
2716
2717- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2718
2719- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2720
2721- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2722
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2725- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2726 (Damien Neil)
2727
2728- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2729 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2730
2731- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2732 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2733 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2734
2735- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2736 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2737 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2738 message.
2739
2740- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2741 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2742 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2743
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2745 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2746 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2747 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2748 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2749 this way will work.
2750
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2751- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2752
2753- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2754 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2755 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2756 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2757
2758 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2759
2760 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2761
2762- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2763 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2764 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2765
2766- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2767 Hermann Lauer.
2768
2769- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2770 messages.
2771
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2772- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2773 it contained quoted strings.
2774
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2775 ** there was no pl17 **
2776
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2779- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2780 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2781 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2782 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2783 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2784 tracking down memory leaks.
2785
2786- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2787 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2788 Solaris.
2789
2790- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2791 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2792 corruption and core dumps.
2793
2794- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2795 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2796
2797- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2798
2799- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2800 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2801
2802- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2803 name and version to standard output.
2804
2805- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2806
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2807- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2808 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2809
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2810- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2811
2812- Lots of documentation updates.
2813
2814- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2815 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2816
2817- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2818
2819- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2820 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2821
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2823
2824- Some documentation tweaks.
2825
2826- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2827
2828- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2829
2830- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2831 agent options into them.
2832
2833- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2834
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2835- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2836 options.
2837
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2839
2840- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2841 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2842 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2843 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2844 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2845
2846- Fix up documentation.
2847
2848- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2849 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2850
2851- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2852
2853- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2854
2855- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2856 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2857 practical use otherwise.
2858
2859- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2860 for debugging.
2861
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2863
2864- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2865 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2866 dump on some systems.
2867
2868- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2869 option.
2870
2871- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2872 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2873
2874- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2875 that were not printing enough information.
2876
2877- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2878 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2879
2880- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2881 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2882 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2883 were answering.
2884
2885- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2886 the transition.
2887
2888
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2890
2891- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2892
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2893 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2894
2895- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2896 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2897 representation from working correctly.
2898
2899- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2900 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2901 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2902 could spin.
2903
2904- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2905 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2906
2907- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2908 interface name on the command line.
2909
2910- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2911 client state.
2912
2913- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2914 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2915 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2916 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2917 added by Ted Lemon.
2918
2919- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2920 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2921
2922- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2923 end option.
2924
2925- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2926 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2927 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2928
2929- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2930 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2931 face of a null hardware address on input.
2932
2933- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2934 specified unqualified.
2935
2936- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2937 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2938
2939- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2940 RFC.
2941
2942- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2943
2944- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2945
2946- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2947 it works.
2948
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2949 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2950
2951- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2952 to CVS.
2953
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2954 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2955
2956- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2957
2958- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2959 in patchlevel 9.
2960
2961- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2962 options at renewal time.
2963
2964- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2965 configuration language.
2966
2967- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2968
2969- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2970 done when no client hostname was received.
2971
2972- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2973
2974- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2975 the DHCP option space.
2976
2977- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2978
2979- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2980 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2981
2982- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2983 silently dropped.
2984
2985- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2986 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2987
2988- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2989 will be correctly updated.
2990
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2991 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2992
2993- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2994 bounds-checking.
2995
2996 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2997
2998- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2999
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3002- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3003 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3004 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3005
3006- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3007 option.
3008
3009- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3010 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3011 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3012 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3013 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3014 meaningfully.
3015
3016- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3017 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3018 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3019
3020- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3021 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3022 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3023 this one down!
3024
3025- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3026 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3027 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3028 down and fixing this problem.
3029
3030 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3031
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3032- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3033 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3034
3035- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3036 environment.
3037
3038- Fix suffix operator.
3039
3040- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3041
3042- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3043 connection code.
3044
3045- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3046
3047- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3048
3049- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3050 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3051
3052- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3053
3054- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3055
3056- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3057 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3058
3059- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3060 spawn with.
3061
3062- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3063 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3064
3065- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3066 for OMAPI.
3067
3068- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3069 can install in host declarations.
3070
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3071 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3072
3073- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3074 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3075 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3076 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3077 comments)!
3078
3079- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3080
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3081- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3082 request for help on this with patches!
3083
3084- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3085 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3086 lost, they never reconnect.
3087
3088- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3089 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3090
3091- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3092 dump.
3093
3094- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3095 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3096 catching this one.
3097
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3098 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3099
3100- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3101 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3102 lease renewal time.
3103
3104- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3105 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3106 declared without a key.
3107
3108- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3109
3110- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3111 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3112
3113- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3114 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3115 determine the maximum size of the response.
3116
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3117 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3118
359b023e
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3119- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3120 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3121
592d8153
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3122- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3123 RENEWING client.
3124
3125- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3126
3127- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3128 using memcmp().
3129
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3130 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3131
3132- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3133 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3134 pointing this out.
3135
3136- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3137 exit.
3138
3139- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3140
3141- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3142 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.