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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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43 Changes since 4.2.0a2
44
45- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
46 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
47
3c941d42 48 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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49
50- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
51 is no longer truncated to one octet.
52
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53- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
54
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55- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
56 reflect support for prefix delegation.
57
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58- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
59
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60- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
61 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
62 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
63 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
64 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
65 entry for each lease.
66
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67- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
68
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69 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
70
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71- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
72 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 73 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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75- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
76 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
77 Cantrell at Red Hat.
78
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79- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
80 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
81
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82- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
83
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84- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
85 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
86 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
87 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
88 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
89 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
90
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91- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
92 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
93 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
94 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
95 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
96 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
97 FQDN options by default).
98
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99- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
100 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
101 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
102 determined lease time) are omitted.
103
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104- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
105 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
106 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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107
108- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
109 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
110 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
111
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112 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
113
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114- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
115
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116- Validate the argument to the -p option.
117
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118- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
119 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
120 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
121 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
122 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
123
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124- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
125
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126- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
127 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
128 had been deleted from configuration.
129
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130- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
131 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 132 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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133 were being ignored.
134
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135- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
136
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137- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
138 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
139 Nordahl.
140
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141- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
142 dhcpv6 disabled.
143
8d7dca58 144- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 145 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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147- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
148 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
149
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150- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
151 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
152 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
153
154- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
155 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
156 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
157 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
158 fewer system calls.
159
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160- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
161 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
162 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
163 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
164 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
165 Christof Chen.
166
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167- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
168 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
169 and in normal state.
170
171- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
172 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
173
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174- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
175
176- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
177 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
178 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
179
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180- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
181 rather than restarting the listener.
182
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183- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
184 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
185
186- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
187 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
188 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
189
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190- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
191 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
192 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
193 timeouts).
194
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195- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
196 in failover state records.
197
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198! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
199 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
200 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 201 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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203- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
204 processing a DHCPINFORM.
205
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206- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
207 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
208 last option definition is used.
209
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210- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
211 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
212 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
213
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214- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
215 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
216
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217- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
218 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
219 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
220 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
221 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
222 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
223
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224- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
225 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
226 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
227 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
228
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229! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
230 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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232- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
233 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
234
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235- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
236 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
237 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
238 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
239 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 240 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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241 configuration.
242
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243- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
244 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
245
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246- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
247 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
248 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
249 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
250
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251- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
252 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
253 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
254 was always properly set.
255
adbef119 256 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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257
258- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
259 be recognized.
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261 Changes since 4.1.0a2
262
263- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
264 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
265 "abandoned".
266
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267- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
268
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269- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
270 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
271
272- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
273 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
274
275- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 276 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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278- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
279
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280- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
281 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
282 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
283 in future releases.
284
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285- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
286 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
287
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288- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
289 'dhclient -6' support.
290
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291- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
292 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
293 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
294 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
295
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297
298- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
299
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300- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
301
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302- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
303 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
304 only the latter. Fixed.
305
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306- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
307
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308- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
309 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
310
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311- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
312
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313- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
314
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315- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
316 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
317 --enable-early-chroot.
318
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319- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
320 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
321
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322- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
323 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
324 parameter.
325
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326- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
327 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
328
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329- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
330 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
331
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332- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
333
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334- Merged IA_XX related structures.
335
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336- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
337
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338- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
339
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340- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
341 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
342 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
343
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344- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
345 support.
346
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347- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
348 repaired.
349
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350- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
351
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352- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
353
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354- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
355 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
356
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357- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
358 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
359
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360- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
361 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
362
363- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
364 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
365 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
366 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
367 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
368 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
369 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
370 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
371 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
372 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
373 shared-network.
374
375- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
376 configured option values.
377
378- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
379 support class statements.
380
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381- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
382 selection were repaired.
383
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384- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
385 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
386 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
387 by the OS.
388
389- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
390 address.
391
392- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
393 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
394
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395- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
396
397- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
398
399- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
400 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
401
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404- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
405
4cafb815 406- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 407 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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409- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
410 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
411 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
412
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413- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
414 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
415
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416- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
417
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418- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
419 reserved IDs avoided).
420
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421- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
422
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423- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
424 carries a rapid-commit option.
425
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426- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
427 an empty active lease.
428
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429- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
430
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431- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
432 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
433 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
434 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
435
436- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
437
438- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
439 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
440 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
441 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
442 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
443 Christof Chen.
444
445 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
446
447- DHCP now builds on AIX.
448
449- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
450 config file but -6 is not specified.
451
452- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
453
454- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
455 be more helpful.
456
457- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
458 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
459 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
460
461- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
462 was repaired.
463
464- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
465 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
466 been repaired.
467
468- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
469 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
470 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
471
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472- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
473 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
474
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475- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
476 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
477 IPv4 address.
478
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479- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
480 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
481 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
482 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
483 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
484
485- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
486 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
487 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
488
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489- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
490
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491- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
492
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493- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
494 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
495 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
496 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
497 unnecessary logging.
498
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499- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
500 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
501
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502- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
503 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
504 is incompatible is printed.
505
506- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
507 a previously undefined option code.
508
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509- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
510 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
511
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512- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
513 than the year 2000.
514
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515- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
516
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517- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
518
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519- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
520
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521 Changes since 4.0.0b3
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523- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
524 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
525 configuration.
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527- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
528 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
529
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530- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
531 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
532 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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534- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
535 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
536 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
537 a requested address.
538
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539- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
540 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
541 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
542 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
543
544- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
545 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
546 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
547 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
548
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549- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
550 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
551 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
552
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553- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
554 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
555
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556- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
557
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558- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
559 codes through some conditions.
560
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561- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
562 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
563
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564- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
565 seemingly random values.
566
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567- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
568
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569- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
570 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
571 one ever has.
572
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573- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
574 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
575 to a REQUEST.
576
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577- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
578 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
579 level.
580
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581 Changes since 4.0.0b2
582
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583- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
584
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585- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
586 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
587 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
588 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
589 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
590
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591- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
592 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
593 new address.
594
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595 Changes since 4.0.0b1
596
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597- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
598 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
599 simultaneously on a single interface.
600
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601- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
602 of service under unusual server configurations
603
604- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
605
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606- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
607 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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609- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
610 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
611 on every pool rebalance run.
612
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613- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
614 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
615
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616- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
617 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
618
ab3a540f 619 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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621- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
622 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
623
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624- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
625 point out the problem.
626
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627- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
628 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
629 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
630
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631- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
632 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
633
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634- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
635 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
636 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
637
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638- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
639
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640- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
641 fixed by Marcus Goller.
642
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643- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
644 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
645 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
646 regardless of the existence of bindings.
647
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648- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
649
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650- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
651 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
652 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
653 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
654 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
655
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656- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
657
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658 Changes since 4.0.0a2
659
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660- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
661 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
662
763cba6b 663- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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665- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
666 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
667 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
668
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669- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
670
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671- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
672 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
673
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674- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
675 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
676 loaded from persistent storage.
677
45d545f0 678- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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679 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
680 necessary.
681
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682- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
683 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
684 rapid-commit option.
685
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686- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
687 non-128-bits in length were removed.
688
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689 Changes since 4.0.0a1
690
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691- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
692 and fix.
693
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694- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
695
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696- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
697
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698- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
699 for when loading configuration.
700
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701- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
702 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
703 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
704
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705- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
706 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
707 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
708 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
709
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710- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
711
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712- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
713 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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715- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
716
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717- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
718
719- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
720 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
721
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722- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
723 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
724
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725- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
726
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727- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
728 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
729
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730 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
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732- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
733
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734- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
735 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
736
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737- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
738
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739- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
740 initialized.
741
742- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
743
744- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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745 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
746
747- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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749- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
750
751- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
752 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
753
754- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
755
8ea19a71 756- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 757 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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758
759- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
760 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
761
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762- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
763
764- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
765
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766- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
767
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768 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
769
770- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
771 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
772 no support currently for both.
773
774- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
775 IAADDR option.
776
777- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
778 options.
779
780- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
781
782- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
783 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
784
785- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
786 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
787 specifying type 1 or type 2).
788
789- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
790 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
791
792- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
793 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
794 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
795 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
796 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
797 differently, they both use the same code here).
798
799- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
800 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
801 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
802
803- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
804
805- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
806 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
807 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
808 it should not intercept.
809
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810 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
811
812- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
813 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
814 between primary and secondary.
815
816- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
817 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
818 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
819
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820- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
821
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822- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
823 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
824 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
825 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
826 or REQUEST messages.
827
828- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
829 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
830
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831- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
832
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833 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
834
835- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
836 failover protected subnets was removed.
837
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838 Changes since 3.1.0b2
839
840- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
841 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
842 odd number of leases).
843
844- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
845 rebalance run, and one after.
846
847- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
848 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
849 processing these messages.
850
fe5b0fdd 851 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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853- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
854 objects.
855
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856- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
857 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
858 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
859 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
860 at Allianz.
861
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862- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
863 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
864
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865- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
866 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
867
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868- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
869 caused the server to abort.
870
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871- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
872 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
873 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
874
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875- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
876 by empty spaces would not get included.
877
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878- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
879 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
880
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881- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
882 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
883
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884- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
885 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
886
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887- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
888 on the parameter request list.
889
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890 Changes since 3.1.0a3
891
892- Some spelling fixes.
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894 Changes since 3.1.0a2
895
896- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
897 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
898
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899- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
900 domain-search option syntax.
901
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902 Changes since 3.1.0a1
903
904- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
905 hash table was repaired.
906
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907- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
908 entering normal state.
909
910- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
911 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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912 'xid mismatch' log messages.
913
914- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
915 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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917- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
918 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
919 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
920 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
921
45d545f0 922- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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923 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
924 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
925 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
926 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
927 to their needs.
928
929- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
930 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
931 run will attempt balance.
932
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933- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
934
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935 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
936
937- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
938 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
939 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
940 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
941
98bd7ca0 942- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 943 was introduced.
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944
945- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
946 via OMAPI.
947
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948- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
949 the protocol draft.
950
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951- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
952 one does not already exist on the system.
953
b43c87ad 954- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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956- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
957 matches RFC 3074.
958
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959- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
960 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 961 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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963- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
964 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 965 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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967- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
968 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
969 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
970 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
971
972- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
973 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
974 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
975 priority over the client's parameter request list.
976
f7fdb216 977- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 978 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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979 DHCPv6 support.
980
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981- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
982 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
983 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
984
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985- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
986 have been incorporated.
987
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988- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
989 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
990 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
991 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
992 that belong to the peer in need.
993
994- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
995 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
996
997- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
998 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
999 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1000
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1001- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1002 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1003
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1004- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1005 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1006 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1007 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1008 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1009
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1010- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1011 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1012 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1013 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1014
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1015- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1016 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1017 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1018 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1019 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1020 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1021 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1022 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1023 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1024
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1025- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1026 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1027
41e45067 1028- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1029 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1030 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1031 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1032
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1033- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1034 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1035 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1036 hardware and funding the development.
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1038- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1039 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1040 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1041 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1042 via Robin Breathe.
1043
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1044- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1045 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1046 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1047 from Christof Chen.
1048
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1049- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1050 formally supported.
1051
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1052 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1053
1054- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1055 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1056
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1057 Changes since 3.0.5
1058
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1059- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1060 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1061 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1062 they actually received.
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1063
1064- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1065
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1066- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1067 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1068 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1069 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1071- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1072
d69fb6a8 1073- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1074 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1076- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1077 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1078 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1079 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1080 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1081 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1082 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1083 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1084
1085- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1086 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1087 'file' field.
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1089- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1090 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1091
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1092- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1093 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1094 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1095
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1096- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1097 from Chris Wagner.
1098
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1099- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1100 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1101 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1102
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1103- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1104 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1105 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1106 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1107 was set.
1108
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1109- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1110 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1111
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1112- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1113 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1114 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1115 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1116 active ones.
1117
02428754 1118 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1119
901306d5 1120- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1121 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1122 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1123 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1124 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1125
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1126- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1127 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1128
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1129 Changes since 3.0.4
1130
1131- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1132 scopes are actually global has been added.
1133
1134- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1135 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1136 known to be damaging.
1137
1138- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1139 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1140 balancing).
1141
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1142- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1143 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1144 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1145
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1146- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1147 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1148 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1149
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1150- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1151 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1152 more clear now.
1153
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1154- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1155 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1156 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1157 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1158 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1159 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1161- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1162 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1163
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1164- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1165 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1166 made possible.
1167
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1168- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1169 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1170 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1171
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1172- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1173 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1174
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1175- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1176 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1177 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1178
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1179- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1180 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1181 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1182 value with the later configured value).
1183
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1184- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1185 have been named and documented.
1186
1187- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1188 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1189 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1190 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1191 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1192 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1193 write new output.
1194
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1195 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1196
1197- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1198 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1199
1200 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1201
1202- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1203 mailing list.
1204
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1205 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1206
45d545f0 1207- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1208 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1209
1210- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1211 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1212
1213- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1214 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1215 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1216 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1217
1218- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1219 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1220 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1221 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1222 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1223 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1224 transition (properly).
1225
1226- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1227
1228 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1229
1230- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1231 STDIN after reading one line.
1232
1233- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1234 descriptor it opened twice.
1235
1236- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1237 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1238 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1239
1240 Changes since 3.0.3
1241
1242- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1243 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1244 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1245
1246- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1247 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1248 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1249
1250- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1251 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1252 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1253 leases to allocate.
1254
1255- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1256 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1257 than the entire block of them.
1258
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1259! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1260 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1261 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1262 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1263 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1264 to a patch from infamous42md.
1265
1266! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1267 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1268 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1269 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1270 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1271 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1272
1273- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1274 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1275 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1276
1277- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1278 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1279
1280- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1281 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1282 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1283 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1284 transitional states.
1285
1286- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1287 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1288 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1289
1290- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1291 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1292 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1293
1294- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1295 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1296
1297- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1298 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1299
1300- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1301 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1302 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1303
1304- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1305 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1306
1307- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1308 repaired.
1309
1310- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1311 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1312 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1313 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1314
1315- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1316 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1317 data.
1318
1319- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1320 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1321 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1322 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1323 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1324
1325- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1326 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1327 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1328 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1329 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1330
1331- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1332 has been repaired.
1333
1334- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1335 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1336 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1337 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1338 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1339
1340- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1341 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1343- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1344 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1345 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1346 move to 3.[01].x.
1347
1348- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1349 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1350
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1351 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1352
1353- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1354 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1355
1356- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1357 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1358 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1359 workaround.
1360
1361 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1362
1363- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1364 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1365
1366 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1367
1368- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1369 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1370 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1371
1372- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1373 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1374 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1375
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1376 Changes since 3.0.2
1377
1378- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1379 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1380 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1381
1382- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1383 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1384 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1385 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1386 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1387
1388- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1389 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1390 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1391
1392- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1393 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1394 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1395
1396- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1397 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1398 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1399 Peter Poeml.
1400
1401- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1402 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1403
1404- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1405 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1406 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1407 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1408 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1409 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1410
1411- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1412 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1413 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1414 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1415
1416- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1417 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1418 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1419 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1420
1421- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1422 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1423
1424- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1425 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1426 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1427
1428- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1429 7 bytes, and failover.
1430
1431- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1432 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1433 at Red Hat.
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1434
1435- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1436 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1437 should work better.
1438
1439- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1440 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1441 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1442
1443- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1444 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1445 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1446
1447 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1448
1449- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1450 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1451
1452 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1453
45d545f0 1454- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1455 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1456 overloading. This was repaired.
1457
1458- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1459 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1460 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1461 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1462 three chunks to fit.
1463
1464- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1465 were repaired.
1466
1467- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1468 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1469 leak).
1470
1471 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1472
1473- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1474 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1475
1476 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1477
1478- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1479
1480 Changes since 3.0.1
1481
1482- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1483 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1484 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1485
1486- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1487 name was not provided by the server.
1488
1489- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1490 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1491
1492- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1493 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1494
1495- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1496 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1497
1498- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1499
1500- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1501
1502- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1503 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1504 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1505 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1506 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1507
1508- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1509 the configuration be globally scoped.
1510
1511- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1512 Farkas.
1513
1514- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1515 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1516
1517- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1518 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1519
1520- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1521 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1522
1523- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1524 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1525 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1526 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1527
1528- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1529 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1530 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1531 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1532
1533- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1534 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1535 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1536
1537- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1538
1539- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1540 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1541 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1542
1543- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1544 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1545 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1546 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1547 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1548
1549- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1550 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1551
1552- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1553 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1554
1555- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1556 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1557 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1558 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1559
1560- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1561 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1562
1563- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1564 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1565 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1566
1567- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1568 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1569 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1570 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1571 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1572 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1573
1574- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1575 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1576 Infoblox.
1577
1578- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1579
1580- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1581 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1582 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1583 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1584 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1585 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1586 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1587
1588- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1589 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1590 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1591
1592- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1593 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1594 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1595
1596- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1597
1598 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1599
1600- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1601 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1602 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1603 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1604 systems either.
1605
1606- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1607
1608- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1609 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1610 is false.
1611
1612- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1613 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1614
1615- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1616
1617 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1618
1619! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1620 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1621 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1622 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1623 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1624 both finding and solving the problem.
1625
1626! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1628 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1629 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1630 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1631 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1632 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1633 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1634 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1635 published version of ISC DHCP.
1636
1637- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1638
1639- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1640
1641 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1642
1643- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1644 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1645 Richard Hirst.
1646
1647- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1648 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1649 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1650
1651- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1652
1653- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1654 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1655 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1656 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1657
1658- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1659 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1660
1661- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1662 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1663
1664- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1665
1666 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1667
1668- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1669 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1670
1671- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1672 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1673 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1674
1675- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1676 by name was fixed.
1677
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1679 longer result in error.
1680
1681- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1682
1683- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1684 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1685 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1686
1687- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1688 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1689
1690- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1691 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1692 Blapp.
1693
1694- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1695 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1696 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1697 Martin Blapp.
1698
1699- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1700 expiry times in failover configurations.
1701
1702- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1703 Steve G.
1704
1705- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1706 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1707
1708- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1709 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1710 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1711 now "unknown-144".
1712
1713- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1714 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1715
1716 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1717
1718- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1719
1720- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1721 not be bash.
1722
1723- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1724
1725- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1726 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1727 that errored before will now work properly.
1728
1729- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1730 names was repaired.
1731
1732- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1733 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1734 configuration file.
1735
1736- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1737 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1738
1739- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1740 error rather than a null dereference.
1741
1742 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1743
1744- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1745
1746- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1747
1748- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1749 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1750
1751- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1752
1753- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1754
1755- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1756 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1757 self-corrupting lease databases.
1758
1759- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1760
1761- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1762 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1763
1764- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1765
1766- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1767
1768- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1769 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1770 Ling Gou.
1771
1772- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1773 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1774
1775- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1776 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1777 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1778
1779- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1780 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1781
1782 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1783
1784- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1785 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1786
1787- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1788
1789- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1790 a memory leak.
1791
1792- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1793 script.
1794
1795- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1796
1797- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1798
1799- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1800
1801- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1802
1803- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1804
1805- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1806
1807- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1808
1809- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1810
1811- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1812
1813- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1814
1815- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1816
1817- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1818
1819 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1820
1821- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1822 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1823 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1824
1825 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1826
1827- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1828 to be renewed.
1829
1830- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1831 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1832
1833- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1834 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1835
1836- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1837 that two permit lists matched.
1838
1839- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1840 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1841
1842- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1843
1844- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1845 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1846
1847- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1848
1849- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1850
1851- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1852 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1853 going to update its A record.
1854
1855- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1856 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1857 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1858 DNS server.
1859
1860- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1861
1862- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1863
1864- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1865 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1866 NetBSD project).
1867
1868- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1869 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1870
1871- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1872 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1873
1874- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1875
1876- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1877
1878- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1879 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1880 failover protocol standard.
1881
1882- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1883 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1884 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1885
1886- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1887 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1888 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1889 do so.
1890
1891- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1892
1893 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1894
1895- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1896
1897- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1898 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1899
1900- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1901 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1902
1903- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1904 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1905 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1906
1907- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1908 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1909 network, merge the two pools.
1910
1911- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1912 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1913 fix this bug.
1914
1915 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1916
1917- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1918 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1919
1920- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1921 the same case.
1922
1923- Additional documentation.
1924
1925- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1926 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1927
1928 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1929
1930- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1931- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1932
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1934
1935- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1936 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1937 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1938 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1939 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1940
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1942
1943- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1944 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1945 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1946 wasn't the one that removed it.
1947
1948- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1949 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1950 were not configured.
1951
1952- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1953
1954- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1955 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1956 routing information.
1957
1958- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1959 request being sent.
1960
1961- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1962 done.
1963
1964- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1965 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1966 were pending.
1967
1968- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1969 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1970 problems with failover.
1971
1972- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1973 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1974 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1975
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1977
1978- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1979 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1980
1981- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
1982 no object is open, it dumps core.
1983
1984- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
1985
1986- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
1987
1988- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
1989
1990- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
1991 a host object attribute with a null value.
1992
1993 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
1994
1995- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
1996
1997- Fix an obscure core dump.
1998
1999- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2000 when crucial information is left out.
2001
2002- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2003
2004- Documentation updates.
2005
2006 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2007
2008- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2009
2010- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2011 structure wasn't zeroed.
2012
2013- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2014 incorrectly.
2015
2016- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2017 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2018 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2019 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2020 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2021 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2022 restarted.
2023
2024 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2025
2026- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2027 in failover-enabled pools.
2028
2029- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2030 declarations).
2031
2032- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2033 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2034
2035- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2036 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2037
2038- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2039
2040- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2041 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2042
2043- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2044
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2046
2047- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2048
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2050
2051- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2052
2053- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2054
2055- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2056
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2058
2059- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2060 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2061 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2062
2063- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2064 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2065 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2066 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2067 string.
2068
2069- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2070
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2072
2073- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2074 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2075
2076- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2077 malformed packets.
2078
2079- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2080
2081- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2082 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2083 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2084
2085- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2086
2087- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2088
2089- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2090
2091- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2092 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2093
2094- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2095 tcp connections from being played back.
2096
2097- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2098 on exit.
2099
2100- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2101
2102- Add some configurability to the build system.
2103
2104- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2105
2106- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2107 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2108 hadn't been noticed until now.
2109
2110 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2111
2112- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2113 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2114
2115- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2116 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2117 conformant, but also didn't work).
2118
2119- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2120 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2121
2122- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2123 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2124
2125- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2126 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2127
2128- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2129 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2130
2131- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2132 doing failover.
2133
2134- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2135 running on alpha processors.
2136
2137- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2138 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2139
2140- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2141
2142- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2143
2144- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2145 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2146
2147- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2148
2149- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2150 actually named (key names are domain names).
2151
2152- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2153
2154- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2155 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2156
2157- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2158 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2159
2160- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2161 statements.
2162
2163- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2164 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2165
2166- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2167 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2168 operating.
2169
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2171
2172- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2173 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2174 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2175 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2176
2177- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2178 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2179
2180- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2181
2182
2183 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2184
2185- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2186 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2187
2188- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2189 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2190 to the chain.
2191
2192- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2193
2194- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2195
2196- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2197
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2200
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2203- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2204
2205 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2206
2207- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2208 DHCPDECLINE.
2209
2210- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2211
2212- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2213 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2214 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2215
2216- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2217
2218- Documentation fixes.
2219
2220- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2221 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2222
2223- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2224 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2225
2226- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2227
2228- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2229
2230- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2231 case-insensitive.
2232
2233- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2234
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2237 consistently.
2238
2239- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2240 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2241
2242- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2243
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2245
2246- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2247 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2248 result of duplicate leases.
2249
2250- Document OMAPI server objects.
2251
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2253
2254- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2255 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2256
2257- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2258 core dumps.
2259
2260- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2261 Friedrich.
2262
2263- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2264
2265 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2266
2267- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2268 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2271
2272- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2273 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2274
2275- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2276 trace file.
2277
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2280- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2281 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2282 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2283 e.g., Digital Unix.
2284
2285- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2286 when no error had occurred.
2287
2288- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2289 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2290 non-communicating state.
2291
2292- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2293
2294- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2295 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2296 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2297
2298- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2299 when the client lease expired.
2300
2301- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2302 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2303 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2304 in testing.
2305
2306- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2307 the command line, it would fail.
2308
2309- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2310 user impact).
2311
2312- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2313
2314- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2315 they're executable.
2316
2317 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2318
2319- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2320 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2321 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2322 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2323
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2324- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2325 Transmeta.
2326
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2327- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2328 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2329 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2330 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2331
2332- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2333 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2334
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2335 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2336
2337- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2338 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2339
2340- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2341
2342- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2343
2344- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2345
2346- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2347
2348- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2349
2350- Update some parts of the README file.
2351
2352- Support GCC on SCO.
2353
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2355
2356- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2357 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2358
2359- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2360 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2361 unbill the old class.
2362
2363- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2364 process the state transition immediately.
2365
2366- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2367 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2368
2369- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2370
2371- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2372
2373- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2374
2375- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2376
2377- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2378 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2379 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2380
2381- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2382 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2383
2384- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2385 lease file.
2386
2387- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2388
2389- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2392
2393- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2394 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2395
2396- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2397
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2399
2400- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2401
adbef119 2402 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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2403
2404- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2405
2406- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2407 pl19.
2408
2409- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2410 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2411 past the regression test.
2412
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2414
2415- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2416 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2417
2418- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2419 DHCPREQUEST.
2420
2421- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2422
2423- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2424
2425- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2426
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2429- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2430 (Damien Neil)
2431
2432- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2433 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2434
2435- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2436 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2437 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2438
2439- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2440 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2441 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2442 message.
2443
2444- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2445 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2446 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2447
98311e4b 2448- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2449 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2450 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2451 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2452 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2453 this way will work.
2454
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2455- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2456
2457- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2458 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2459 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2460 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2461
2462 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2463
2464 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2465
2466- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2467 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2468 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2469
2470- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2471 Hermann Lauer.
2472
2473- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2474 messages.
2475
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2476- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2477 it contained quoted strings.
2478
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2479 ** there was no pl17 **
2480
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2483- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2484 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2485 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2486 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2487 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2488 tracking down memory leaks.
2489
2490- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2491 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2492 Solaris.
2493
2494- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2495 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2496 corruption and core dumps.
2497
2498- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2499 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2500
2501- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2502
2503- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2504 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2505
2506- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2507 name and version to standard output.
2508
2509- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2510
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2511- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2512 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2513
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2514- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2515
2516- Lots of documentation updates.
2517
2518- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2519 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2520
2521- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2522
2523- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2524 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2525
2526
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2528
2529- Some documentation tweaks.
2530
2531- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2532
2533- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2534
2535- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2536 agent options into them.
2537
2538- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2539
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2540- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2541 options.
2542
adbef119 2543 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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2544
2545- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2546 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2547 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2548 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2549 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2550
2551- Fix up documentation.
2552
2553- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2554 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2555
2556- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2557
2558- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2559
2560- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2561 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2562 practical use otherwise.
2563
2564- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2565 for debugging.
2566
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2568
2569- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2570 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2571 dump on some systems.
2572
2573- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2574 option.
2575
2576- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2577 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2578
2579- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2580 that were not printing enough information.
2581
2582- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2583 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2584
2585- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2586 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2587 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2588 were answering.
2589
2590- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2591 the transition.
2592
2593
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2595
2596- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2597
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2598 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2599
2600- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2601 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2602 representation from working correctly.
2603
2604- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2605 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2606 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2607 could spin.
2608
2609- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2610 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2611
2612- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2613 interface name on the command line.
2614
2615- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2616 client state.
2617
2618- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2619 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2620 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2621 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2622 added by Ted Lemon.
2623
2624- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2625 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2626
2627- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2628 end option.
2629
2630- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2631 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2632 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2633
2634- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2635 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2636 face of a null hardware address on input.
2637
2638- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2639 specified unqualified.
2640
2641- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2642 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2643
2644- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2645 RFC.
2646
2647- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2648
2649- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2650
2651- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2652 it works.
2653
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2654 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2655
2656- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2657 to CVS.
2658
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2659 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2660
2661- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2662
2663- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2664 in patchlevel 9.
2665
2666- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2667 options at renewal time.
2668
2669- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2670 configuration language.
2671
2672- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2673
2674- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2675 done when no client hostname was received.
2676
2677- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2678
2679- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2680 the DHCP option space.
2681
2682- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2683
2684- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2685 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2686
2687- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2688 silently dropped.
2689
2690- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2691 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2692
2693- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2694 will be correctly updated.
2695
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2696 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2697
2698- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2699 bounds-checking.
2700
2701 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2702
2703- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2704
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2707- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2708 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2709 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2710
2711- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2712 option.
2713
2714- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2715 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2716 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2717 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2718 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2719 meaningfully.
2720
2721- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2722 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2723 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2724
2725- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2726 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2727 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2728 this one down!
2729
2730- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2731 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2732 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2733 down and fixing this problem.
2734
2735 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2736
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2737- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2738 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2739
2740- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2741 environment.
2742
2743- Fix suffix operator.
2744
2745- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2746
2747- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2748 connection code.
2749
2750- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2751
2752- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2753
2754- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2755 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2756
2757- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2758
2759- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2760
2761- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2762 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2763
2764- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2765 spawn with.
2766
2767- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2768 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2769
2770- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2771 for OMAPI.
2772
2773- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2774 can install in host declarations.
2775
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2776 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2777
2778- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2779 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2780 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2781 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2782 comments)!
2783
2784- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2785
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2786- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2787 request for help on this with patches!
2788
2789- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2790 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2791 lost, they never reconnect.
2792
2793- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2794 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2795
2796- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2797 dump.
2798
2799- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2800 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2801 catching this one.
2802
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2803 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2804
2805- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2806 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2807 lease renewal time.
2808
2809- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2810 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2811 declared without a key.
2812
2813- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2814
2815- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2816 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2817
2818- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2819 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2820 determine the maximum size of the response.
2821
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2822 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2823
359b023e
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2824- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2825 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2826
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2827- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2828 RENEWING client.
2829
2830- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2831
2832- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2833 using memcmp().
2834
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2835 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2836
2837- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2838 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2839 pointing this out.
2840
2841- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2842 exit.
2843
2844- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2845
2846- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2847 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.