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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 4.2.0b1
44
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45- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
46 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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48! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
49 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 50 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
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52- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
53
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54- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
55 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
56 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
57 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
58 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
59
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60- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
61 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
62 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
63 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
64 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
65
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66- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
67
600ee619 68- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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69 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
70
71- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
72 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
73 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
74 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
75 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
76 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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78- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
79 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
80
81 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
82 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
83
84 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
85 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
86
87 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
88 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
89
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90 Changes since 4.2.0a2
91
92- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
93 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
94
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95- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
96 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
97 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 98 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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100- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
101 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
102 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
103 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
104 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
105 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
106 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
107 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
108 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
109
3c941d42 110 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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111
112- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
113 is no longer truncated to one octet.
114
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115- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
116
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117- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
118 reflect support for prefix delegation.
119
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120- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
121
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122- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
123 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
124 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
125 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
126 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
127 entry for each lease.
128
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129- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
130
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131 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
132
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133- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
134 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 135 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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137- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
138 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
139 Cantrell at Red Hat.
140
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141- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
142 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
143
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144- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
145
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146- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
147 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
148 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
149 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
150 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
151 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
152
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153- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
154 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
155 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
156 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
157 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
158 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
159 FQDN options by default).
160
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161- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
162 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
163 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
164 determined lease time) are omitted.
165
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166- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
167 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
168 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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169
170- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
171 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
172 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
173
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174 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
175
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176- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
177
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178- Validate the argument to the -p option.
179
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180- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
181 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
182 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
183 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
184 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
185
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186- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
187
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188- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
189 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
190 had been deleted from configuration.
191
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192- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
193 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 194 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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195 were being ignored.
196
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197- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
198
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199- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
200 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
201 Nordahl.
202
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203- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
204 dhcpv6 disabled.
205
8d7dca58 206- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 207 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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209- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
210 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
211
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212- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
213 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
214 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
215
216- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
217 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
218 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
219 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
220 fewer system calls.
221
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222- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
223 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
224 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
225 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
226 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
227 Christof Chen.
228
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229- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
230 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
231 and in normal state.
232
233- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
234 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
235
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236- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
237
238- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
239 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
240 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
241
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242- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
243 rather than restarting the listener.
244
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245- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
246 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
247
248- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
249 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
250 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
251
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252- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
253 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
254 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
255 timeouts).
256
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257- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
258 in failover state records.
259
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260! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
261 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
262 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 263 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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265- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
266 processing a DHCPINFORM.
267
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268- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
269 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
270 last option definition is used.
271
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272- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
273 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
274 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
275
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276- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
277 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
278
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279- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
280 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
281 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
282 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
283 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
284 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
285
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286- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
287 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
288 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
289 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
290
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291! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
292 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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294- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
295 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
296
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297- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
298 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
299 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
300 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
301 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 302 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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303 configuration.
304
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305- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
306 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
307
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308- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
309 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
310 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
311 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
312
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313- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
314 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
315 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
316 was always properly set.
317
adbef119 318 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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319
320- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
321 be recognized.
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323 Changes since 4.1.0a2
324
325- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
326 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
327 "abandoned".
328
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329- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
330
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331- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
332 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
333
334- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
335 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
336
337- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 338 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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340- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
341
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342- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
343 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
344 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
345 in future releases.
346
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347- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
348 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
349
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350- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
351 'dhclient -6' support.
352
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353- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
354 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
355 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
356 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
357
7d6180be 358 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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360- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
361
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362- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
363
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364- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
365 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
366 only the latter. Fixed.
367
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368- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
369
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370- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
371 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
372
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373- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
374
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375- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
376
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377- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
378 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
379 --enable-early-chroot.
380
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381- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
382 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
383
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384- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
385 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
386 parameter.
387
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388- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
389 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
390
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391- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
392 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
393
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394- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
395
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396- Merged IA_XX related structures.
397
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398- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
399
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400- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
401
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402- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
403 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
404 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
405
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406- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
407 support.
408
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409- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
410 repaired.
411
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412- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
413
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414- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
415
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416- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
417 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
418
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419- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
420 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
421
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422- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
423 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
424
425- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
426 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
427 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
428 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
429 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
430 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
431 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
432 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
433 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
434 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
435 shared-network.
436
437- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
438 configured option values.
439
440- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
441 support class statements.
442
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443- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
444 selection were repaired.
445
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446- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
447 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
448 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
449 by the OS.
450
451- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
452 address.
453
454- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
455 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
456
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457- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
458
459- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
460
461- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
462 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
463
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466- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
467
4cafb815 468- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 469 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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471- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
472 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
473 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
474
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475- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
476 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
477
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478- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
479
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480- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
481 reserved IDs avoided).
482
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483- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
484
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485- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
486 carries a rapid-commit option.
487
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488- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
489 an empty active lease.
490
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491- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
492
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493- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
494 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
495 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
496 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
497
498- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
499
500- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
501 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
502 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
503 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
504 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
505 Christof Chen.
506
507 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
508
509- DHCP now builds on AIX.
510
511- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
512 config file but -6 is not specified.
513
514- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
515
516- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
517 be more helpful.
518
519- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
520 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
521 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
522
523- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
524 was repaired.
525
526- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
527 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
528 been repaired.
529
530- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
531 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
532 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
533
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534- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
535 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
536
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537- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
538 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
539 IPv4 address.
540
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541- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
542 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
543 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
544 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
545 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
546
547- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
548 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
549 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
550
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551- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
552
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553- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
554
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555- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
556 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
557 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
558 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
559 unnecessary logging.
560
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561- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
562 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
563
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564- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
565 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
566 is incompatible is printed.
567
568- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
569 a previously undefined option code.
570
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571- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
572 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
573
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574- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
575 than the year 2000.
576
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577- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
578
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579- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
580
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581- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
582
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583 Changes since 4.0.0b3
584
585- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
586 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
587 configuration.
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589- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
590 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
591
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592- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
593 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
594 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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596- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
597 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
598 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
599 a requested address.
600
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601- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
602 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
603 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
604 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
605
606- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
607 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
608 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
609 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
610
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611- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
612 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
613 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
614
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615- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
616 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
617
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618- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
619
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620- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
621 codes through some conditions.
622
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623- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
624 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
625
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626- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
627 seemingly random values.
628
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629- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
630
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631- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
632 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
633 one ever has.
634
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635- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
636 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
637 to a REQUEST.
638
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639- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
640 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
641 level.
642
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643 Changes since 4.0.0b2
644
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645- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
646
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647- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
648 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
649 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
650 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
651 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
652
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653- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
654 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
655 new address.
656
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657 Changes since 4.0.0b1
658
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659- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
660 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
661 simultaneously on a single interface.
662
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663- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
664 of service under unusual server configurations
665
666- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
667
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668- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
669 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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671- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
672 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
673 on every pool rebalance run.
674
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675- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
676 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
677
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678- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
679 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
680
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683- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
684 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
685
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686- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
687 point out the problem.
688
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689- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
690 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
691 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
692
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693- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
694 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
695
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696- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
697 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
698 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
699
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700- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
701
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702- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
703 fixed by Marcus Goller.
704
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705- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
706 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
707 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
708 regardless of the existence of bindings.
709
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710- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
711
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712- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
713 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
714 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
715 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
716 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
717
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718- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
719
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720 Changes since 4.0.0a2
721
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722- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
723 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
724
763cba6b 725- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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727- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
728 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
729 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
730
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731- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
732
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733- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
734 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
735
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736- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
737 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
738 loaded from persistent storage.
739
45d545f0 740- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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741 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
742 necessary.
743
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744- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
745 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
746 rapid-commit option.
747
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748- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
749 non-128-bits in length were removed.
750
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751 Changes since 4.0.0a1
752
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753- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
754 and fix.
755
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756- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
757
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758- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
759
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760- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
761 for when loading configuration.
762
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763- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
764 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
765 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
766
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767- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
768 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
769 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
770 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
771
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772- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
773
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774- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
775 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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777- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
778
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779- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
780
781- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
782 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
783
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784- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
785 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
786
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787- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
788
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789- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
790 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
791
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792 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
793
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794- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
795
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796- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
797 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
798
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799- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
800
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801- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
802 initialized.
803
804- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
805
806- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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807 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
808
809- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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811- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
812
813- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
814 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
815
816- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
817
8ea19a71 818- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 819 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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820
821- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
822 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
823
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824- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
825
826- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
827
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828- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
829
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830 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
831
832- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
833 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
834 no support currently for both.
835
836- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
837 IAADDR option.
838
839- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
840 options.
841
842- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
843
844- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
845 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
846
847- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
848 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
849 specifying type 1 or type 2).
850
851- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
852 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
853
854- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
855 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
856 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
857 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
858 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
859 differently, they both use the same code here).
860
861- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
862 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
863 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
864
865- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
866
867- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
868 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
869 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
870 it should not intercept.
871
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872 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
873
874- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
875 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
876 between primary and secondary.
877
878- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
879 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
880 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
881
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882- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
883
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884- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
885 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
886 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
887 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
888 or REQUEST messages.
889
890- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
891 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
892
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893- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
894
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895 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
896
897- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
898 failover protected subnets was removed.
899
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900 Changes since 3.1.0b2
901
902- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
903 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
904 odd number of leases).
905
906- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
907 rebalance run, and one after.
908
909- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
910 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
911 processing these messages.
912
fe5b0fdd 913 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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915- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
916 objects.
917
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918- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
919 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
920 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
921 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
922 at Allianz.
923
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924- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
925 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
926
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927- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
928 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
929
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930- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
931 caused the server to abort.
932
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933- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
934 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
935 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
936
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937- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
938 by empty spaces would not get included.
939
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940- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
941 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
942
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943- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
944 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
945
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946- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
947 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
948
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949- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
950 on the parameter request list.
951
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952 Changes since 3.1.0a3
953
954- Some spelling fixes.
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956 Changes since 3.1.0a2
957
958- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
959 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
960
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961- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
962 domain-search option syntax.
963
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964 Changes since 3.1.0a1
965
966- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
967 hash table was repaired.
968
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969- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
970 entering normal state.
971
972- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
973 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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974 'xid mismatch' log messages.
975
976- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
977 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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979- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
980 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
981 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
982 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
983
45d545f0 984- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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985 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
986 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
987 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
988 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
989 to their needs.
990
991- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
992 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
993 run will attempt balance.
994
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995- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
996
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997 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
998
999- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1000 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1001 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1002 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1003
98bd7ca0 1004- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1005 was introduced.
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1006
1007- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1008 via OMAPI.
1009
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1010- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1011 the protocol draft.
1012
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1013- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1014 one does not already exist on the system.
1015
b43c87ad 1016- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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1018- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1019 matches RFC 3074.
1020
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1021- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1022 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1023 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1025- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1026 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1027 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1028
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1029- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1030 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1031 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1032 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1033
1034- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1035 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1036 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1037 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1038
f7fdb216 1039- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1040 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1041 DHCPv6 support.
1042
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1043- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1044 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1045 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1046
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1047- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1048 have been incorporated.
1049
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1050- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1051 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1052 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1053 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1054 that belong to the peer in need.
1055
1056- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1057 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1058
1059- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1060 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1061 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1062
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1063- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1064 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1065
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1066- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1067 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1068 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1069 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1070 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1071
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1072- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1073 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1074 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1075 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1076
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1077- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1078 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1079 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1080 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1081 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1082 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1083 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1084 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1085 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1086
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1087- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1088 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1089
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1091 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1092 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1093 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1094
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1095- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1096 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1097 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1098 hardware and funding the development.
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1100- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1101 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1102 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1103 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1104 via Robin Breathe.
1105
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1106- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1107 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1108 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1109 from Christof Chen.
1110
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1111- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1112 formally supported.
1113
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1114 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1115
1116- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1117 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1118
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1119 Changes since 3.0.5
1120
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1121- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1122 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1123 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1124 they actually received.
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1125
1126- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1127
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1128- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1129 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1130 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1131 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1133- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1134
d69fb6a8 1135- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1136 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1138- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1139 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1140 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1141 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1142 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1143 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1144 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1145 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1146
1147- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1148 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1149 'file' field.
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1151- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1152 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1153
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1154- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1155 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1156 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1157
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1158- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1159 from Chris Wagner.
1160
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1161- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1162 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1163 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1164
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1165- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1166 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1167 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1168 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1169 was set.
1170
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1171- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1172 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1173
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1174- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1175 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1176 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1177 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1178 active ones.
1179
02428754 1180 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1181
901306d5 1182- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1184 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1185 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1186 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1187
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1188- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1189 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1190
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1191 Changes since 3.0.4
1192
1193- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1194 scopes are actually global has been added.
1195
1196- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1197 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1198 known to be damaging.
1199
1200- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1201 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1202 balancing).
1203
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1204- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1205 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1206 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1207
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1208- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1209 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1210 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1211
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1212- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1213 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1214 more clear now.
1215
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1216- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1217 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1218 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1219 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1220 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1221 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1223- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1224 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1225
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1226- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1227 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1228 made possible.
1229
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1230- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1231 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1232 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1233
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1234- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1235 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1236
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1237- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1238 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1239 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1240
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1241- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1242 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1243 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1244 value with the later configured value).
1245
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1246- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1247 have been named and documented.
1248
1249- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1250 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1251 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1252 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1253 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1254 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1255 write new output.
1256
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1257 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1258
1259- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1260 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1261
1262 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1263
1264- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1265 mailing list.
1266
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1267 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1268
45d545f0 1269- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1270 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1271
1272- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1273 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1274
1275- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1276 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1277 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1278 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1279
1280- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1281 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1282 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1283 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1284 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1285 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1286 transition (properly).
1287
1288- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1289
1290 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1291
1292- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1293 STDIN after reading one line.
1294
1295- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1296 descriptor it opened twice.
1297
1298- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1299 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1300 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1301
1302 Changes since 3.0.3
1303
1304- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1305 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1306 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1307
1308- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1309 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1310 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1311
1312- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1313 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1314 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1315 leases to allocate.
1316
1317- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1318 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1319 than the entire block of them.
1320
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1321! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1322 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1323 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1324 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1325 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1326 to a patch from infamous42md.
1327
1328! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1329 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1330 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1331 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1332 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1333 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1334
1335- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1336 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1337 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1338
1339- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1340 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1341
1342- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1343 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1344 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1345 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1346 transitional states.
1347
1348- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1349 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1350 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1351
1352- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1353 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1354 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1355
1356- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1357 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1358
1359- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1360 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1361
1362- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1363 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1364 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1365
1366- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1367 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1368
1369- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1370 repaired.
1371
1372- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1373 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1374 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1375 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1376
1377- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1378 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1379 data.
1380
1381- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1382 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1383 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1384 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1385 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1386
1387- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1388 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1389 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1390 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1391 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1392
1393- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1394 has been repaired.
1395
1396- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1397 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1398 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1399 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1400 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1401
1402- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1403 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1405- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1406 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1407 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1408 move to 3.[01].x.
1409
1410- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1411 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1412
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1413 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1414
1415- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1416 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1417
1418- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1419 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1420 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1421 workaround.
1422
1423 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1424
1425- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1426 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1427
1428 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1429
1430- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1431 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1432 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1433
1434- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1435 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1436 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1437
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1438 Changes since 3.0.2
1439
1440- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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1442 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1443
1444- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1445 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1446 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1447 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1448 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1449
1450- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1451 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1452 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1453
1454- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1455 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1456 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1457
1458- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1459 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1460 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1461 Peter Poeml.
1462
1463- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1464 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1465
1466- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1467 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1468 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1469 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1470 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1471 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1472
1473- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1474 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1475 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1476 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1477
1478- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1479 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1480 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1481 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1482
1483- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1484 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1485
1486- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1487 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1488 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1489
1490- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1491 7 bytes, and failover.
1492
1493- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1494 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1495 at Red Hat.
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1496
1497- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1498 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1499 should work better.
1500
1501- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1502 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1503 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1504
1505- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1506 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1507 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1508
1509 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1510
1511- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1512 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1513
1514 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1515
45d545f0 1516- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1517 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1518 overloading. This was repaired.
1519
1520- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1521 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1522 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1523 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1524 three chunks to fit.
1525
1526- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1527 were repaired.
1528
1529- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1530 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1531 leak).
1532
1533 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1534
1535- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1536 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1537
1538 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1539
1540- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1541
1542 Changes since 3.0.1
1543
1544- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1545 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1546 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1547
1548- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1549 name was not provided by the server.
1550
1551- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1552 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1553
1554- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1555 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1556
1557- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1558 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1559
1560- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1561
1562- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1563
1564- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1565 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1566 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1567 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1568 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1569
1570- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1571 the configuration be globally scoped.
1572
1573- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1574 Farkas.
1575
1576- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1577 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1578
1579- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1580 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1581
1582- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1583 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1584
1585- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1586 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1587 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1588 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1589
1590- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1591 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1592 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1593 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1594
1595- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1596 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1597 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1598
1599- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1600
1601- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1602 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1603 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1604
1605- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1606 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1607 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1608 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1609 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1610
1611- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1612 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1613
1614- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1615 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1616
1617- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1618 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1619 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1620 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1621
1622- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1623 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1624
1625- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1626 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1627 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1628
1629- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1630 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1631 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1632 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1633 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1634 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1635
1636- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1637 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1638 Infoblox.
1639
1640- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1641
1642- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1643 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1644 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1645 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1646 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1647 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1648 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1649
1650- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1651 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1652 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1653
1654- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1655 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1656 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1657
1658- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1659
1660 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1661
1662- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1663 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1664 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1665 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1666 systems either.
1667
1668- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1669
1670- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1671 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1672 is false.
1673
1674- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1675 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1676
1677- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1678
1679 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1680
1681! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1682 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1683 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1684 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1685 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1686 both finding and solving the problem.
1687
1688! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1690 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1691 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1692 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1693 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1694 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1695 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1696 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1697 published version of ISC DHCP.
1698
1699- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1700
1701- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1702
1703 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1704
1705- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1706 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1707 Richard Hirst.
1708
1709- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1710 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1711 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1712
1713- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1714
1715- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1716 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1717 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1718 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1719
1720- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1721 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1722
1723- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1724 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1725
1726- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1727
1728 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1729
1730- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1731 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1732
1733- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1734 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1735 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1736
1737- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1738 by name was fixed.
1739
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1741 longer result in error.
1742
1743- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1744
1745- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1746 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1747 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1748
1749- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1750 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1751
1752- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1753 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1754 Blapp.
1755
1756- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1757 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1758 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1759 Martin Blapp.
1760
1761- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1762 expiry times in failover configurations.
1763
1764- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1765 Steve G.
1766
1767- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1768 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1769
1770- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1771 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1772 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1773 now "unknown-144".
1774
1775- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1776 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1777
1778 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1779
1780- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1781
1782- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1783 not be bash.
1784
1785- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1786
1787- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1788 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1789 that errored before will now work properly.
1790
1791- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1792 names was repaired.
1793
1794- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1795 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1796 configuration file.
1797
1798- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1799 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1800
1801- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1802 error rather than a null dereference.
1803
1804 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1805
1806- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1807
1808- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1809
1810- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1811 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1812
1813- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1814
1815- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1816
1817- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1818 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1819 self-corrupting lease databases.
1820
1821- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1822
1823- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1824 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1825
1826- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1827
1828- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1829
1830- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1831 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1832 Ling Gou.
1833
1834- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1835 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1836
1837- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1838 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1839 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1840
1841- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1842 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1843
1844 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1845
1846- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1847 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1848
1849- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1850
1851- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1852 a memory leak.
1853
1854- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1855 script.
1856
1857- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1858
1859- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1860
1861- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1862
1863- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1864
1865- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1866
1867- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1868
1869- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1870
1871- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1872
1873- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1874
1875- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1876
1877- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1878
1879- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1880
1881 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1882
1883- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1884 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1885 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1886
1887 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1888
1889- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1890 to be renewed.
1891
1892- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1893 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1894
1895- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1896 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1897
1898- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1899 that two permit lists matched.
1900
1901- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1902 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1903
1904- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1905
1906- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1907 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1908
1909- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1910
1911- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1912
1913- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1914 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1915 going to update its A record.
1916
1917- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1918 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1919 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1920 DNS server.
1921
1922- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1923
1924- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1925
1926- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1927 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1928 NetBSD project).
1929
1930- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1931 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1932
1933- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1934 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1935
1936- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1937
1938- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1939
1940- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1941 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1942 failover protocol standard.
1943
1944- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1945 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1946 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1947
1948- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1949 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1950 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1951 do so.
1952
1953- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1954
1955 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1956
1957- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1958
1959- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1960 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1961
1962- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1963 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1964
1965- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1966 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1967 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1968
1969- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1970 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1971 network, merge the two pools.
1972
1973- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1974 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1975 fix this bug.
1976
1977 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1978
1979- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1980 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1981
1982- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1983 the same case.
1984
1985- Additional documentation.
1986
1987- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1988 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1989
1990 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1991
1992- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1993- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1994
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1996
1997- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1998 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1999 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2000 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2001 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2002
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2004
2005- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2006 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2007 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2008 wasn't the one that removed it.
2009
2010- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2011 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2012 were not configured.
2013
2014- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2015
2016- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2017 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2018 routing information.
2019
2020- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2021 request being sent.
2022
2023- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2024 done.
2025
2026- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2027 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2028 were pending.
2029
2030- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2031 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2032 problems with failover.
2033
2034- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2035 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2036 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2037
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2039
2040- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2041 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2042
2043- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2044 no object is open, it dumps core.
2045
2046- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2047
2048- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2049
2050- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2051
2052- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2053 a host object attribute with a null value.
2054
2055 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2056
2057- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2058
2059- Fix an obscure core dump.
2060
2061- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2062 when crucial information is left out.
2063
2064- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2065
2066- Documentation updates.
2067
2068 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2069
2070- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2071
2072- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2073 structure wasn't zeroed.
2074
2075- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2076 incorrectly.
2077
2078- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2079 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2080 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2081 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2082 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2083 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2084 restarted.
2085
2086 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2087
2088- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2089 in failover-enabled pools.
2090
2091- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2092 declarations).
2093
2094- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2095 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2096
2097- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2098 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2099
2100- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2101
2102- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2103 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2104
2105- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2106
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2108
2109- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2110
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2112
2113- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2114
2115- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2116
2117- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2118
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2120
2121- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2122 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2123 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2124
2125- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2126 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2127 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2128 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2129 string.
2130
2131- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2132
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2134
2135- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2136 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2137
2138- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2139 malformed packets.
2140
2141- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2142
2143- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2144 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2145 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2146
2147- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2148
2149- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2150
2151- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2152
2153- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2154 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2155
2156- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2157 tcp connections from being played back.
2158
2159- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2160 on exit.
2161
2162- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2163
2164- Add some configurability to the build system.
2165
2166- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2167
2168- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2169 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2170 hadn't been noticed until now.
2171
2172 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2173
2174- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2175 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2176
2177- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2178 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2179 conformant, but also didn't work).
2180
2181- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2182 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2183
2184- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2185 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2186
2187- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2188 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2189
2190- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2191 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2192
2193- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2194 doing failover.
2195
2196- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2197 running on alpha processors.
2198
2199- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2200 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2201
2202- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2203
2204- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2205
2206- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2207 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2208
2209- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2210
2211- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2212 actually named (key names are domain names).
2213
2214- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2215
2216- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2217 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2218
2219- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2220 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2221
2222- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2223 statements.
2224
2225- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2226 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2227
2228- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2229 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2230 operating.
2231
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2233
2234- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2235 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2236 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2237 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2238
2239- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2240 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2241
2242- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2243
2244
2245 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2246
2247- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2248 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2249
2250- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2251 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2252 to the chain.
2253
2254- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2255
2256- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2257
2258- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2259
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2262
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2265- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2266
2267 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2268
2269- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2270 DHCPDECLINE.
2271
2272- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2273
2274- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2275 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2276 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2277
2278- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2279
2280- Documentation fixes.
2281
2282- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2283 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2284
2285- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2286 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2287
2288- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2289
2290- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2291
2292- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2293 case-insensitive.
2294
2295- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2296
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2298 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2299 consistently.
2300
2301- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2302 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2303
2304- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2305
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2307
2308- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2309 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2310 result of duplicate leases.
2311
2312- Document OMAPI server objects.
2313
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2314 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2315
2316- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2317 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2318
2319- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2320 core dumps.
2321
2322- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2323 Friedrich.
2324
2325- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2326
2327 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2328
2329- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2330 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2331 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2332 billing class code.
2333
2334- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2335 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2336
2337- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2338 trace file.
2339
79ea3de8 2340 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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2342- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2343 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2344 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2345 e.g., Digital Unix.
2346
2347- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2348 when no error had occurred.
2349
2350- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2351 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2352 non-communicating state.
2353
2354- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2355
2356- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2357 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2358 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2359
2360- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2361 when the client lease expired.
2362
2363- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2364 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2365 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2366 in testing.
2367
2368- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2369 the command line, it would fail.
2370
2371- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2372 user impact).
2373
2374- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2375
2376- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2377 they're executable.
2378
2379 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2380
2381- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2382 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2383 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2384 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2385
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2386- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2387 Transmeta.
2388
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2389- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2390 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2391 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2392 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2393
2394- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2395 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2396
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2397 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2398
2399- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2400 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2401
2402- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2403
2404- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2405
2406- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2407
2408- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2409
2410- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2411
2412- Update some parts of the README file.
2413
2414- Support GCC on SCO.
2415
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2417
2418- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2419 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2420
2421- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2422 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2423 unbill the old class.
2424
2425- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2426 process the state transition immediately.
2427
2428- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2429 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2430
2431- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2432
2433- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2434
2435- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2436
2437- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2438
2439- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2440 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2441 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2442
2443- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2444 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2445
2446- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2447 lease file.
2448
2449- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2450
2451- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 2452
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2454
2455- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2456 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2457
2458- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2459
adbef119 2460 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2461
2462- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2463
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2465
2466- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2467
2468- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2469 pl19.
2470
2471- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2472 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2473 past the regression test.
2474
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2476
2477- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2478 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2479
2480- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2481 DHCPREQUEST.
2482
2483- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2484
2485- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2486
2487- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2488
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2491- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2492 (Damien Neil)
2493
2494- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2495 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2496
2497- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2498 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2499 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2500
2501- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2502 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2503 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2504 message.
2505
2506- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2507 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2508 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2509
98311e4b 2510- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2511 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2512 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2513 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2514 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2515 this way will work.
2516
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2517- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2518
2519- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2520 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2521 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2522 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2523
2524 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2525
2526 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2527
2528- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2529 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2530 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2531
2532- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2533 Hermann Lauer.
2534
2535- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2536 messages.
2537
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2538- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2539 it contained quoted strings.
2540
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2541 ** there was no pl17 **
2542
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2545- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2546 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2547 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2548 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2549 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2550 tracking down memory leaks.
2551
2552- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2553 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2554 Solaris.
2555
2556- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2557 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2558 corruption and core dumps.
2559
2560- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2561 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2562
2563- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2564
2565- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2566 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2567
2568- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2569 name and version to standard output.
2570
2571- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2572
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2573- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2574 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2575
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2576- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2577
2578- Lots of documentation updates.
2579
2580- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2581 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2582
2583- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2584
2585- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2586 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2587
2588
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2590
2591- Some documentation tweaks.
2592
2593- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2594
2595- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2596
2597- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2598 agent options into them.
2599
2600- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2601
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2602- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2603 options.
2604
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2606
2607- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2608 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2609 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2610 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2611 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2612
2613- Fix up documentation.
2614
2615- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2616 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2617
2618- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2619
2620- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2621
2622- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2623 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2624 practical use otherwise.
2625
2626- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2627 for debugging.
2628
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2630
2631- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2632 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2633 dump on some systems.
2634
2635- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2636 option.
2637
2638- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2639 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2640
2641- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2642 that were not printing enough information.
2643
2644- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2645 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2646
2647- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2648 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2649 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2650 were answering.
2651
2652- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2653 the transition.
2654
2655
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2657
2658- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2659
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2660 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2661
2662- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2663 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2664 representation from working correctly.
2665
2666- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2667 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2668 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2669 could spin.
2670
2671- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2672 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2673
2674- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2675 interface name on the command line.
2676
2677- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2678 client state.
2679
2680- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2681 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2682 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2683 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2684 added by Ted Lemon.
2685
2686- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2687 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2688
2689- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2690 end option.
2691
2692- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2693 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2694 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2695
2696- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2697 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2698 face of a null hardware address on input.
2699
2700- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2701 specified unqualified.
2702
2703- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2704 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2705
2706- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2707 RFC.
2708
2709- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2710
2711- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2712
2713- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2714 it works.
2715
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2717
2718- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2719 to CVS.
2720
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2721 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2722
2723- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2724
2725- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2726 in patchlevel 9.
2727
2728- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2729 options at renewal time.
2730
2731- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2732 configuration language.
2733
2734- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2735
2736- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2737 done when no client hostname was received.
2738
2739- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2740
2741- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2742 the DHCP option space.
2743
2744- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2745
2746- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2747 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2748
2749- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2750 silently dropped.
2751
2752- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2753 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2754
2755- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2756 will be correctly updated.
2757
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2758 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2759
2760- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2761 bounds-checking.
2762
2763 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2764
2765- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2766
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2769- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2770 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2771 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2772
2773- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2774 option.
2775
2776- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2777 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2778 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2779 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2780 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2781 meaningfully.
2782
2783- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2784 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2785 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2786
2787- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2788 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2789 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2790 this one down!
2791
2792- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2793 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2794 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2795 down and fixing this problem.
2796
2797 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2798
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2799- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2800 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2801
2802- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2803 environment.
2804
2805- Fix suffix operator.
2806
2807- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2808
2809- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2810 connection code.
2811
2812- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2813
2814- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2815
2816- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2817 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2818
2819- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2820
2821- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2822
2823- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2824 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2825
2826- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2827 spawn with.
2828
2829- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2830 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2831
2832- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2833 for OMAPI.
2834
2835- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2836 can install in host declarations.
2837
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2839
2840- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2841 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2842 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2843 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2844 comments)!
2845
2846- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2847
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2848- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2849 request for help on this with patches!
2850
2851- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2852 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2853 lost, they never reconnect.
2854
2855- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2856 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2857
2858- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2859 dump.
2860
2861- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2862 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2863 catching this one.
2864
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2865 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2866
2867- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2868 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2869 lease renewal time.
2870
2871- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2872 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2873 declared without a key.
2874
2875- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2876
2877- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2878 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2879
2880- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2881 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2882 determine the maximum size of the response.
2883
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2885
359b023e
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2886- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2887 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2888
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2889- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2890 RENEWING client.
2891
2892- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2893
2894- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2895 using memcmp().
2896
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2897 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2898
2899- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2900 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2901 pointing this out.
2902
2903- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2904 exit.
2905
2906- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2907
2908- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2909 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.