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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
01a44a77 68
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
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80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE
81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
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87- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID
88 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
89 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
90 option in the list.
91 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
92
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93- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
94 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
95 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 96 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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98- Remove unused RCSID tags.
99 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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101- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
102 for MRT limit it to MRD.
103 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
104 [ISC-Bugs #21238
105
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106- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
107 when a server, relay or client are killed.
108 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
109 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
110
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111- Some minor cleanups in the client code
112 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list
113 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
114 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
115 given the "-1" argument.
116 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
117 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
118 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
119 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
120 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
121 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
122 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
123 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
124 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
125
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126- Several updates to the dhcp server code
127 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
128 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
129 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
130 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
131 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
132 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
133 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
134 to syslog.
135
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136- Add the "enable-log-pid" option to the configure script. When enabled
137 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
138 number in syslog messages.
139 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
140 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
141
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142- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
143 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
144 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
145 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
63c8800c 146 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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148- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
149 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
150 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
151 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
152 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
153 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
154
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155- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
156 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
157 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
158
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159- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
160 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
161 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
162
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163- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
164 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
165 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
166
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167 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
168
169- None
170 Changes since 4.3.0b1
171
172- Tidy up receive packet processing.
173 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
174 a possible patch.
175 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
176
177 Changes since 4.3.0a1
178
179- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
180 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
181 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
182 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
183
184- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
185 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
186
6980ae03 187 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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189- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
190 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
191 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
192 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
193 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
194 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 195 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 196 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 197 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 198 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
51b8a8a0 199
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200- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
201 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
202 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
203
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204- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
205 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
206 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
207 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 208 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 209
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210- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
211 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
212 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
213 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
214 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
215 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
216
a7341359 217- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 218 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
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220- Add support for using classes with v6.
221 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
222
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223- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
224 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
225 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
226 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
227 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
228 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
229 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 230 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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232- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
233 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
234 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
235 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
236 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
237 not recommended.
64fb661c 238 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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240- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
241 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
242 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
243 This is "Server starting service.".
244 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
245 its failover peer are in the normal state.
246 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 247 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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249- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
250 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
251 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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252 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
253 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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254 man page for a description.
255 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
256
e54ff84f 257- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 258 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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259 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
260 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
261 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
262 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
263 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
264
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265- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
266 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
267 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
268 one instance of their respective address types.
269 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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271- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
272 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
273 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
274 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 275 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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276 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
277 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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279- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
280 and take host declarations into account.
281 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
282 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
283
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284- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
285 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
286 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
287 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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289- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
290 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 291 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 293 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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295- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
296 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 297
01a44a77 298- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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300- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
301 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 302
01a44a77 303- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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305- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
306 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
307 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
308 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
309 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
310 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 312- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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314- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
315 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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317- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
318 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
319 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
320 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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322- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
323 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
324 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
325 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
326 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
327 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
328 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
329 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
330 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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332- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
333 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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335! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
336 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
337 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
338 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 339
01a44a77 340- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 341
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342- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
343 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
344 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
345 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
346 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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348- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
349 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
350 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
351 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
352 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 353
01a44a77 354- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 355
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356- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
357 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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359- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
360 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
361 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
362 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
363 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
364 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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366- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
367 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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369 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
370 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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372 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
373 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 374
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375 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
376 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 377
01a44a77 378- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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380- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
381 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
382 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
383 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
384 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
385 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 386
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387- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
388 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
389 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
390 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
391 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
392 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 393
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394- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
395 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
396 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 397
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398- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
399 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
400 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
401 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 402
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403- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
404 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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406- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
407 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
408 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 409
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410- Minor code fixes
411 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
412 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
413 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
414 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
415 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
416 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
417 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
418 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
419 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
420 Thanks to Martin Pala.
421 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
422 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 423
01a44a77 424- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 425
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426- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
427 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 428
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429- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
430 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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432- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
433 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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435- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
436 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
437 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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439- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
440 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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442- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
443 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
444 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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446- Fixes to lease input and output.
447 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
448 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
449 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
450 characters.
451 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
452 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 453
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454- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
455 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
456 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
457 at Red Hat.
458 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
459 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
460 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
461 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 462
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463- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
464 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
465 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
466 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 467
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468! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
469 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
470 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
471 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 472
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473- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
474 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
475 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 476
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477- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
478 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
479 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
480 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
481 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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483- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
484 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
485 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
486 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
487 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 488
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489! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
490 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
491 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
492 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
493 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
494 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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496- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
497 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
498 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
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500- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
501 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
502 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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504- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
505 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
506 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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508- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
509 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
510 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
511 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
512 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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514- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
515 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
516 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
517 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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519! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
520 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
521 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
522 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
523 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
524 and reset its timeout value.
525 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
526
527- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
528 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
529 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
530 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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532 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
533 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
534 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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536- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
537 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
538 when removing the ddns information.
539 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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541- Some fixes for LDAP
542 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
543 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
544 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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546- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
547 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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549! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
550 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
551 interfaces with the OS.
552 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
553 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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555- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
556 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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558- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
559 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
560 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
561 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
562 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
563 in v6 mode at configure time.
564 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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566- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
567 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
568 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 569 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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571- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
572 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
573 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
574 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 575 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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577- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
578 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
579 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
580 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 581 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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583- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
584 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
585 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
586 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 587 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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589- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
590 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 591 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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593- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
594 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
595 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
596 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 597 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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599- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
600 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
601 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
602
603- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
604 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
605 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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607- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
608 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
609 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
610 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
611 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
612 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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614- Documentation fixes
615 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
616 responses to the all-ones address.
617 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
618 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
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620- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
621 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
622 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
623 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
624
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625- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
626 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
627
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628- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
629 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
630 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
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632- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
633 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
634 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
635 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
636 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
637 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
638 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
639 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
640 enable this except for testing purposes.
641 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
642 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
643
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644- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
645 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
646
647- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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649- Client Script fixes
650 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
651 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
652 the domain search address is link local.
653 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
654 case of the default router information being changed without the address
655 being changed.
656
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657- Documentation cleanup
658 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
659
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660- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
661 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
662
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663- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
664 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
665 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
666 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
667
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668- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
669 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
670 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
671
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672- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
673 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
674
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675- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
676 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
677 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
678 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
679 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
680 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
681
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682- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
683 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
684 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
685 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
686 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
687 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
688 in site.h then server will be terminated
689 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
690
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691! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
692 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
693 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
694 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
695 One CVE number for each class of packet.
696 CVE-2011-2748
697 CVE-2011-2749
698
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699- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
700 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
701 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
702 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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704- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
705 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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707- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
708 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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710- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
711 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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713! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
714 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
715 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
716 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
717 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
718 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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720! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
721 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
722 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
723 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
724 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
725 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
726 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
727 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
728 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
729 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
730 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
731 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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733- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
734 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
735 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
736 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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738- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
739 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
740 from the DNS client code.
741 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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743- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
744 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
745
746- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
747 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
748 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
749 some issues we found in the socket code.
750 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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752- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
753 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
754 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
755 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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757- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
758 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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760- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
761 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
762 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
763 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
764 weren't removed from the DNS.
765 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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767- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
768 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
769 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
770 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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772- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
773 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
774 dynamic bootp clients.
775 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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777- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
778 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
779 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
780 handing it out.
781 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
782 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
783 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
784 for different IAs.
785 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
786 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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788- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
789 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
790 an int as a boolean).
791 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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793- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
794 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
795 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
796 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
797 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
798 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
799 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
800 may be removed in the future.
801 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
802 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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804- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
805 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
806 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
807 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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809- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
810 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
811 report and the first version of the patch.
812 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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814- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
815 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
816 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
817 for reporting this issue.
818 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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820- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
821 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
822 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
823 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
824 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
825 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
826 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
827 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
828 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
829 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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831! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
832 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
833 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
834 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
835 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
836 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
837 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
838 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
839 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
840 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
841 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
842 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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844! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
845 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
846 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
847 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
848 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
849 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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851! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
852 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
853 this issue.
854 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
855 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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857- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
858 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
859 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
860 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
861 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
862 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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864! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
865 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
866 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
867 New Zealand for finding this issue.
868 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
869 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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871- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
872 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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874- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
875 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
876 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
877 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
878 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
879 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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881- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
882 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
883 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
884 freed in other cases.
885 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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887- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
888 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
889 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
890 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
891 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
892 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
893 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
894 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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896- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
897 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
898 and patches.
899 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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901- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
902 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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904- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
905 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
906 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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908- The client now passes information about the options it requested
909 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
910 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
911 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
912 variables.
913 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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915- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
916 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
917 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
918 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
919 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
920 enabling it.
921 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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923- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
924 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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926- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
927 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
928 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
929 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
930 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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932- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
933 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
934 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
935 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
936 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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938- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
939 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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941- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
942 and comment out a currently unused test.
943 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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945- Address static analysis warnings.
946 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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948- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
949 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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951- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
952 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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954- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
955 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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957- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
958 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
959 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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961- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
962 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
963 for the patch.
964 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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966- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
967 objects.
968 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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970- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
971 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
972 to work more consistently.
973 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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975- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
976 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
977 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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979- Update client script for use with openwrt.
980 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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982- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
983 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
984 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
985 for the bug report and a potential patch.
986 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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988- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
989 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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991- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
992 to the clients.
993 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
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995- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
996 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
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999 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1000
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1001- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1002 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1003 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1004
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1005- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1006 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1007 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1008
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1009- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1010 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1011
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1012- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1013
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1014- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1015 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1016 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1017 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1018 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1019 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1020
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1021- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1022 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1023 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1024 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1025 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1026 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1027 FQDN options by default).
1028
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1029- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1030 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1031 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1032 determined lease time) are omitted.
1033
98bf1607 1034- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 1035 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1036 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1037
1038- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1039 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1040 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1041
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1042 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1043
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1044- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1045
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1046- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1047
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1048- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1049 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1050 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1051 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1052 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1053
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1054- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1055
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1056- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1057 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1058 had been deleted from configuration.
1059
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1060- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1061 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1062 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1063 were being ignored.
1064
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1065- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1066
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1067- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1068 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1069 Nordahl.
1070
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1071- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1072 dhcpv6 disabled.
1073
8d7dca58 1074- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1075 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1076
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1077- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1078 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1079
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1080- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1081 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1082 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1083
1084- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1085 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1086 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1087 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1088 fewer system calls.
1089
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1090- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1091 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1092 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1093 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1094 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1095 Christof Chen.
1096
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1097- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1098 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1099 and in normal state.
1100
1101- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1102 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1103
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1104- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1105
1106- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1107 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1108 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1109
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1110- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1111 rather than restarting the listener.
1112
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1113- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1114 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1115
1116- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1117 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1118 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1119
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1120- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1121 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1122 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1123 timeouts).
1124
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1125- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1126 in failover state records.
1127
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1128! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1129 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1130 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1131 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1132
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1133- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1134 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1135
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1136- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1137 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1138 last option definition is used.
1139
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1140- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1141 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1142 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1143
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1144- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1145 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1146
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DH
1147- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1148 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1149 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1150 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1151 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1152 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1153
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1154- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1155 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1156 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1157 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1158
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1159! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1160 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1161
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SR
1162- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1163 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1164
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1165- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1166 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1167 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1168 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1169 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1170 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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1171 configuration.
1172
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1173- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1174 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1175
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SR
1176- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1177 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1178 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1179 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1180
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1181- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1182 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1183 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1184 was always properly set.
1185
adbef119 1186 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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1187
1188- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1189 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1190
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1191 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1192
1193- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1194 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1195 "abandoned".
1196
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1197- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1198
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1199- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1200 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1201
1202- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1203 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1204
1205- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1206 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1207
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1208- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1209
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1210- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1211 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1212 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1213 in future releases.
1214
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1215- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1216 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1217
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1218- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1219 'dhclient -6' support.
1220
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1221- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1222 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1223 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1224 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1225
7d6180be 1226 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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1227
1228- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1229
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1230- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1231
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1232- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1233 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1234 only the latter. Fixed.
1235
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1236- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1237
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1238- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1239 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1240
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EH
1241- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1242
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1243- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1244
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DH
1245- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1246 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1247 --enable-early-chroot.
1248
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1249- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1250 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1251
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1252- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1253 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1254 parameter.
1255
8269561d
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1256- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1257 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1258
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1259- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1260 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1261
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FD
1262- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1263
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FD
1264- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1265
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FD
1266- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1267
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1268- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1269
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DH
1270- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1271 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1272 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1273
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FD
1274- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1275 support.
1276
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DH
1277- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1278 repaired.
1279
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FD
1280- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1281
ffbaa880
FD
1282- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1283
7de20a95
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1284- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1285 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1286
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1287- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1288 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1289
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DH
1290- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1291 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1292
1293- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1294 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1295 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1296 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1297 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1298 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1299 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1300 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1301 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1302 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1303 shared-network.
1304
1305- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1306 configured option values.
1307
1308- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1309 support class statements.
1310
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1311- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1312 selection were repaired.
1313
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1314- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1315 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1316 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1317 by the OS.
1318
1319- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1320 address.
1321
1322- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1323 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1324
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1325- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1326
1327- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1328
1329- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1330 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1331
01a54c17 1332 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1333
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1334- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1335
4cafb815 1336- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1337 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1338
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1339- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1340 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1341 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1342
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1343- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1344 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1345
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1346- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1347
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1348- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1349 reserved IDs avoided).
1350
b51c785f
FD
1351- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1352
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FD
1353- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1354 carries a rapid-commit option.
1355
96b620e5
FD
1356- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1357 an empty active lease.
1358
be62cf06
FD
1359- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1360
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1361- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1362 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1363 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1364 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1365
1366- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1367
1368- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1369 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1370 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1371 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1372 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1373 Christof Chen.
1374
1375 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1376
1377- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1378
1379- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1380 config file but -6 is not specified.
1381
1382- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1383
1384- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1385 be more helpful.
1386
1387- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1388 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1389 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1390
1391- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1392 was repaired.
1393
1394- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1395 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1396 been repaired.
1397
1398- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1399 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1400 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1401
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1402- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1403 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1404
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1405- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1406 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1407 IPv4 address.
1408
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1409- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1410 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1411 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1412 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1413 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1414
1415- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1416 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1417 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1418
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1419- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1420
c4d29896
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1421- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1422
57fcb8d9
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1423- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1424 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1425 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1426 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1427 unnecessary logging.
1428
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1429- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1430 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1431
ffdf3c8c
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1432- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1433 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1434 is incompatible is printed.
1435
1436- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1437 a previously undefined option code.
1438
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1439- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1440 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1441
7e9f7a1b
FD
1442- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1443 than the year 2000.
1444
e2cfde76
FD
1445- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1446
cabdb9b1
FD
1447- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1448
5d89d60f
FD
1449- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1450
61d75ea2
DH
1451 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1452
1453- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1454 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1455 configuration.
76db44f9 1456
e32529a5
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1457- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1458 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1459
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SK
1460- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1461 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1462 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1463
6f76de58
SK
1464- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1465 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1466 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1467 a requested address.
1468
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DH
1469- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1470 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1471 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1472 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1473
1474- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1475 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1476 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1477 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1478
b024480e
DH
1479- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1480 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1481 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1482
c0216cb7
DH
1483- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1484 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1485
1ac57173
FD
1486- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1487
83835822
DH
1488- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1489 codes through some conditions.
1490
c54db708
FD
1491- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1492 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1493
e5d83524
DH
1494- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1495 seemingly random values.
1496
821f2dda
DH
1497- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1498
f8b3c6f4
DH
1499- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1500 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1501 one ever has.
1502
b9137d42
SK
1503- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1504 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1505 to a REQUEST.
1506
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DH
1507- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1508 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1509 level.
1510
e4a6be15
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1511 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1512
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1513- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1514
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1515- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1516 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1517 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1518 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1519 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1520
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1521- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1522 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1523 new address.
1524
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1525 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1526
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1527- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1528 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1529 simultaneously on a single interface.
1530
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1531- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1532 of service under unusual server configurations
1533
1534- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1535
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1536- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1537 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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1539- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1540 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1541 on every pool rebalance run.
1542
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1543- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1544 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1545
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1546- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1547 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1548
ab3a540f 1549 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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1551- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1552 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1553
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1554- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1555 point out the problem.
1556
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1557- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1558 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1559 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1560
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1561- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1562 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1563
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1564- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1565 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1566 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1567
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1568- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1569
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1570- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1571 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1572
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1573- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1574 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1575 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1576 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1577
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1578- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1579
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1580- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1581 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1582 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1583 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1584 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1585
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1586- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1587
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1588 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1589
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1590- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1591 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1592
763cba6b 1593- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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1595- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1596 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1597 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1598
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1599- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1600
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1601- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1602 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1603
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1604- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1605 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1606 loaded from persistent storage.
1607
45d545f0 1608- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1609 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1610 necessary.
1611
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1612- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1613 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1614 rapid-commit option.
1615
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1616- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1617 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1618
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1619 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1620
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1621- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1622 and fix.
1623
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1624- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1625
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1626- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1627
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1628- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1629 for when loading configuration.
1630
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1631- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1632 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1633 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1634
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1635- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1636 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1637 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1638 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1639
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1640- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1641
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1642- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1643 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1644
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1645- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1646
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1647- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1648
1649- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1650 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1651
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1652- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1653 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1654
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1655- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1656
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1657- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1658 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1659
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1660 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1661
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1662- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1663
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1664- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1665 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1666
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1667- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1668
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1669- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1670 initialized.
1671
1672- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1673
1674- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1675 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1676
1677- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1679- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1680
1681- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1682 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1683
1684- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1685
8ea19a71 1686- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1687 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1688
1689- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1690 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1691
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1692- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1693
1694- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1695
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1696- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1697
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1698 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1699
1700- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1701 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1702 no support currently for both.
1703
1704- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1705 IAADDR option.
1706
1707- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1708 options.
1709
1710- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1711
1712- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1713 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1714
1715- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1716 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1717 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1718
1719- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1720 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1721
1722- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1723 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1724 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1725 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1726 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1727 differently, they both use the same code here).
1728
1729- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1730 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1731 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1732
1733- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1734
1735- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1736 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1737 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1738 it should not intercept.
1739
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1740 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1741
1742- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1743 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1744 between primary and secondary.
1745
1746- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1747 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1748 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1749
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1750- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1751
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1752- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1753 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1754 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1755 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1756 or REQUEST messages.
1757
1758- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1759 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1760
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1761- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1762
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1763 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1764
1765- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1766 failover protected subnets was removed.
1767
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1768 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1769
1770- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1771 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1772 odd number of leases).
1773
1774- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1775 rebalance run, and one after.
1776
1777- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1778 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1779 processing these messages.
1780
fe5b0fdd 1781 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1783- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1784 objects.
1785
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1786- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1787 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1788 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1789 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1790 at Allianz.
1791
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1792- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1793 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1794
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1795- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1796 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1797
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1798- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1799 caused the server to abort.
1800
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1801- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1802 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1803 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1804
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1805- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1806 by empty spaces would not get included.
1807
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1808- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1809 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1810
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1811- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1812 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1813
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1814- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1815 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1816
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1817- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1818 on the parameter request list.
1819
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1820 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1821
1822- Some spelling fixes.
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1824 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1825
1826- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1827 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1828
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1829- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1830 domain-search option syntax.
1831
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1832 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1833
1834- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1835 hash table was repaired.
1836
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1837- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1838 entering normal state.
1839
1840- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1841 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1842 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1843
1844- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1845 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1847- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1848 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1849 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1850 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1851
45d545f0 1852- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1853 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1854 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1855 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1856 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1857 to their needs.
1858
1859- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1860 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1861 run will attempt balance.
1862
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1863- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1864
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1865 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1866
1867- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1868 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1869 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1870 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1871
98bd7ca0 1872- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1873 was introduced.
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1874
1875- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1876 via OMAPI.
1877
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1878- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1879 the protocol draft.
1880
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1881- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1882 one does not already exist on the system.
1883
b43c87ad 1884- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1885
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1886- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1887 matches RFC 3074.
1888
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1889- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1890 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1891 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1892
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1893- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1894 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1895 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1896
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1897- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1898 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1899 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1900 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1901
1902- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1903 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1904 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1905 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1906
f7fdb216 1907- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1908 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1909 DHCPv6 support.
1910
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1911- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1912 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1913 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1914
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1915- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1916 have been incorporated.
1917
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1918- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1919 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1920 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1921 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1922 that belong to the peer in need.
1923
1924- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1925 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1926
1927- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1928 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1929 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1930
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1931- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1932 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1933
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1934- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1935 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1936 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1937 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1938 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1939
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1940- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1941 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1942 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1943 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1944
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1945- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1946 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1947 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1948 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1949 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1950 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1951 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1952 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1953 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1954
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1955- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1956 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1957
41e45067 1958- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1959 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1960 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1961 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1962
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1963- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1964 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1965 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1966 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1967
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1968- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1969 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1970 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1971 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1972 via Robin Breathe.
1973
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1974- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1975 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1976 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1977 from Christof Chen.
1978
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1979- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1980 formally supported.
1981
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1982 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1983
1984- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1985 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1986
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1987 Changes since 3.0.5
1988
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1989- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1990 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1991 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1992 they actually received.
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1993
1994- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1995
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1996- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1997 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1998 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1999 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2000
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2001- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2002
d69fb6a8 2003- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2004 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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2006- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2007 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2008 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2009 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2010 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2011 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2012 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2013 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2014
2015- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2016 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2017 'file' field.
02428754 2018
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2019- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2020 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2021
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2022- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2023 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2024 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2025
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2026- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2027 from Chris Wagner.
2028
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2029- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2030 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2031 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2032
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2033- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2034 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2035 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2036 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2037 was set.
2038
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2039- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2040 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2041
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2042- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2043 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2044 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2045 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2046 active ones.
2047
02428754 2048 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2049
901306d5 2050- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2051 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2052 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2053 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2054 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2055
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2056- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2057 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2058
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2059 Changes since 3.0.4
2060
2061- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2062 scopes are actually global has been added.
2063
2064- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2065 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2066 known to be damaging.
2067
2068- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2069 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2070 balancing).
2071
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2072- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2073 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2074 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2075
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2076- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2077 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2078 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2079
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2080- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2081 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2082 more clear now.
2083
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2084- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2085 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2086 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2087 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2088 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2089 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2090
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2091- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2092 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2093
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2094- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2095 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2096 made possible.
2097
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2098- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2099 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2100 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2101
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2102- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2103 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2104
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2105- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2106 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2107 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2108
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2109- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2110 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2111 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2112 value with the later configured value).
2113
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2114- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2115 have been named and documented.
2116
2117- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2118 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2119 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2120 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2121 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2122 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2123 write new output.
2124
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2125 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2126
2127- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2128 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2129
2130 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2131
2132- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2133 mailing list.
2134
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2135 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2136
45d545f0 2137- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2138 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2139
2140- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2141 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2142
2143- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2144 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2145 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2146 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2147
2148- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2149 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2150 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2151 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2152 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2153 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2154 transition (properly).
2155
2156- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2157
2158 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2159
2160- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2161 STDIN after reading one line.
2162
2163- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2164 descriptor it opened twice.
2165
2166- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2167 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2168 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2169
2170 Changes since 3.0.3
2171
2172- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2173 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2174 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2175
2176- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2177 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2178 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2179
2180- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2181 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2182 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2183 leases to allocate.
2184
2185- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2186 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2187 than the entire block of them.
2188
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2189! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2190 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2191 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2192 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2193 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2194 to a patch from infamous42md.
2195
2196! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2197 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2198 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2199 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2200 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2201 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2202
2203- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2204 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2205 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2206
2207- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2208 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2209
2210- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2211 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2212 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2213 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2214 transitional states.
2215
2216- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2217 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2218 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2219
2220- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2221 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2222 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2223
2224- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2225 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2226
2227- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2228 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2229
2230- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2231 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2232 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2233
2234- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2235 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2236
2237- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2238 repaired.
2239
2240- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2241 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2242 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2243 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2244
2245- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2246 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2247 data.
2248
2249- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2250 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2251 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2252 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2253 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2254
2255- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2256 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2257 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2258 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2259 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2260
2261- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2262 has been repaired.
2263
2264- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2265 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2266 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2267 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2268 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2269
2270- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2271 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2272
45d545f0 2273- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2274 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2275 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2276 move to 3.[01].x.
2277
2278- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2279 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2280
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2281 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2282
2283- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2284 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2285
2286- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2287 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2288 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2289 workaround.
2290
2291 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2292
2293- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2294 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2295
2296 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2297
2298- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2299 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2300 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2301
2302- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2303 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2304 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2305
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2306 Changes since 3.0.2
2307
2308- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2309 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2310 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2311
2312- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2313 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2314 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2315 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2316 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2317
2318- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2319 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2320 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2321
2322- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2323 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2324 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2325
2326- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2327 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2328 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2329 Peter Poeml.
2330
2331- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2332 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2333
2334- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2335 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2336 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2337 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2338 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2339 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2340
2341- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2342 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2343 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2344 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2345
2346- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2347 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2348 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2349 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2350
2351- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2352 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2353
2354- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2355 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2356 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2357
2358- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2359 7 bytes, and failover.
2360
2361- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2362 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2363 at Red Hat.
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2364
2365- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2366 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2367 should work better.
2368
2369- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2370 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2371 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2372
2373- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2374 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2375 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2376
2377 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2378
2379- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2380 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2381
2382 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2383
45d545f0 2384- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2385 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2386 overloading. This was repaired.
2387
2388- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2389 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2390 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2391 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2392 three chunks to fit.
2393
2394- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2395 were repaired.
2396
2397- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2398 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2399 leak).
2400
2401 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2402
2403- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2404 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2405
2406 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2407
2408- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2409
2410 Changes since 3.0.1
2411
2412- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2413 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2414 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2415
2416- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2417 name was not provided by the server.
2418
2419- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2420 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2421
2422- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2423 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2424
2425- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2426 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2427
2428- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2429
2430- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2431
2432- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2433 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2434 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2435 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2436 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2437
2438- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2439 the configuration be globally scoped.
2440
2441- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2442 Farkas.
2443
2444- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2445 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2446
2447- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2448 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2449
2450- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2451 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2452
2453- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2454 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2455 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2456 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2457
2458- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2459 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2460 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2461 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2462
2463- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2464 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2465 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2466
2467- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2468
2469- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2470 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2471 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2472
2473- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2474 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2475 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2476 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2477 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2478
2479- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2480 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2481
2482- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2483 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2484
2485- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2486 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2487 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2488 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2489
2490- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2491 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2492
2493- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2494 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2495 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2496
2497- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2498 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2499 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2500 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2501 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2502 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2503
2504- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2505 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2506 Infoblox.
2507
2508- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2509
2510- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2511 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2512 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2513 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2514 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2515 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2516 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2517
2518- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2519 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2520 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2521
2522- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2523 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2524 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2525
2526- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2527
2528 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2529
2530- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2531 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2532 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2533 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2534 systems either.
2535
2536- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2537
2538- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2539 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2540 is false.
2541
2542- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2543 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2544
2545- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2546
2547 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2548
2549! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2550 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2551 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2552 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2553 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2554 both finding and solving the problem.
2555
2556! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2557 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2558 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2559 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2560 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2561 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2562 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2563 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2564 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2565 published version of ISC DHCP.
2566
2567- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2568
2569- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2570
2571 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2572
2573- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2574 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2575 Richard Hirst.
2576
2577- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2578 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2579 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2580
2581- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2582
2583- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2584 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2585 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2586 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2587
2588- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2589 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2590
2591- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2592 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2593
2594- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2595
2596 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2597
2598- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2599 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2600
2601- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2602 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2603 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2604
2605- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2606 by name was fixed.
2607
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2609 longer result in error.
2610
2611- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2612
2613- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2614 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2615 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2616
2617- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2618 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2619
2620- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2621 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2622 Blapp.
2623
2624- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2625 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2626 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2627 Martin Blapp.
2628
2629- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2630 expiry times in failover configurations.
2631
2632- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2633 Steve G.
2634
2635- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2636 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2637
2638- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2639 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2640 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2641 now "unknown-144".
2642
2643- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2644 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2645
2646 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2647
2648- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2649
2650- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2651 not be bash.
2652
2653- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2654
2655- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2656 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2657 that errored before will now work properly.
2658
2659- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2660 names was repaired.
2661
2662- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2663 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2664 configuration file.
2665
2666- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2667 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2668
2669- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2670 error rather than a null dereference.
2671
2672 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2673
2674- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2675
2676- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2677
2678- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2679 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2680
2681- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2682
2683- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2684
2685- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2686 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2687 self-corrupting lease databases.
2688
2689- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2690
2691- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2692 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2693
2694- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2695
2696- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2697
2698- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2699 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2700 Ling Gou.
2701
2702- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2703 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2704
2705- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2706 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2707 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2708
2709- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2710 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2711
2712 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2713
2714- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2715 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2716
2717- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2718
2719- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2720 a memory leak.
2721
2722- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2723 script.
2724
2725- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2726
2727- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2728
2729- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2730
2731- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2732
2733- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2734
2735- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2736
2737- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2738
2739- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2740
2741- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2742
2743- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2744
2745- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2746
2747- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2748
2749 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2750
2751- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2752 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2753 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2754
2755 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2756
2757- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2758 to be renewed.
2759
2760- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2761 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2762
2763- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2764 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2765
2766- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2767 that two permit lists matched.
2768
2769- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2770 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2771
2772- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2773
2774- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2775 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2776
2777- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2778
2779- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2780
2781- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2782 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2783 going to update its A record.
2784
2785- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2786 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2787 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2788 DNS server.
2789
2790- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2791
2792- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2793
2794- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2795 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2796 NetBSD project).
2797
2798- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2799 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2800
2801- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2802 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2803
2804- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2805
2806- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2807
2808- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2809 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2810 failover protocol standard.
2811
2812- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2813 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2814 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2815
2816- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2817 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2818 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2819 do so.
2820
2821- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2822
2823 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2824
2825- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2826
2827- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2828 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2829
2830- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2831 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2832
2833- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2834 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2835 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2836
2837- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2838 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2839 network, merge the two pools.
2840
2841- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2842 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2843 fix this bug.
2844
2845 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2846
2847- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2848 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2849
2850- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2851 the same case.
2852
2853- Additional documentation.
2854
2855- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2856 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2857
2858 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2859
2860- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2861- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2862
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2864
2865- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2866 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2867 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2868 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2869 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2870
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2872
2873- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2874 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2875 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2876 wasn't the one that removed it.
2877
2878- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2879 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2880 were not configured.
2881
2882- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2883
2884- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2885 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2886 routing information.
2887
2888- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2889 request being sent.
2890
2891- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2892 done.
2893
2894- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2895 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2896 were pending.
2897
2898- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2899 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2900 problems with failover.
2901
2902- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2903 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2904 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2905
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2907
2908- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2909 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2910
2911- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2912 no object is open, it dumps core.
2913
2914- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2915
2916- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2917
2918- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2919
2920- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2921 a host object attribute with a null value.
2922
2923 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2924
2925- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2926
2927- Fix an obscure core dump.
2928
2929- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2930 when crucial information is left out.
2931
2932- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2933
2934- Documentation updates.
2935
2936 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2937
2938- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2939
2940- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2941 structure wasn't zeroed.
2942
2943- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2944 incorrectly.
2945
2946- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2947 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2948 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2949 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2950 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2951 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2952 restarted.
2953
2954 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2955
2956- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2957 in failover-enabled pools.
2958
2959- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2960 declarations).
2961
2962- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2963 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2964
2965- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2966 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2967
2968- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2969
2970- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2971 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2972
2973- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2974
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2976
2977- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2978
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2979 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2980
2981- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2982
2983- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2984
2985- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2986
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2987 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2988
2989- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2990 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2991 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2992
2993- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2994 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2995 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2996 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2997 string.
2998
2999- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3000
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3001 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3002
3003- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3004 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3005
3006- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3007 malformed packets.
3008
3009- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3010
3011- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3012 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3013 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3014
3015- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3016
3017- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3018
3019- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3020
3021- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3022 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3023
3024- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3025 tcp connections from being played back.
3026
3027- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3028 on exit.
3029
3030- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3031
3032- Add some configurability to the build system.
3033
3034- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3035
3036- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3037 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3038 hadn't been noticed until now.
3039
3040 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3041
3042- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3043 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3044
3045- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3046 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3047 conformant, but also didn't work).
3048
3049- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3050 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3051
3052- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3053 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3054
3055- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3056 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3057
3058- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3059 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3060
3061- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3062 doing failover.
3063
3064- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3065 running on alpha processors.
3066
3067- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3068 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3069
3070- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3071
3072- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3073
3074- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3075 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3076
3077- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3078
3079- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3080 actually named (key names are domain names).
3081
3082- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3083
3084- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3085 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3086
3087- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3088 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3089
3090- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3091 statements.
3092
3093- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3094 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3095
3096- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3097 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3098 operating.
3099
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3100 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3101
3102- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3103 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3104 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3105 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3106
3107- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3108 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3109
3110- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3111
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3112 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3113
3114- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3115 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3116
3117- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3118 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3119 to the chain.
3120
3121- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3122
3123- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3124
3125- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3126
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3128 attribute values in omshell.
3129
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3131
3132- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3133
3134 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3135
3136- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3137 DHCPDECLINE.
3138
3139- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3140
3141- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3142 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3143 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3144
3145- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3146
3147- Documentation fixes.
3148
3149- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3150 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3151
3152- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3153 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3154
3155- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3156
3157- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3158
3159- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3160 case-insensitive.
3161
3162- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3163
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3165 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3166 consistently.
3167
3168- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3169 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3170
3171- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3172
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3173 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3174
3175- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3176 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3177 result of duplicate leases.
3178
3179- Document OMAPI server objects.
3180
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3181 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3182
3183- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3184 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3185
3186- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3187 core dumps.
3188
3189- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3190 Friedrich.
3191
3192- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3193
3194 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3195
3196- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3197 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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3199 billing class code.
3200
3201- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3202 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3203
3204- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3205 trace file.
3206
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3209- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3210 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3211 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3212 e.g., Digital Unix.
3213
3214- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3215 when no error had occurred.
3216
3217- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3218 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3219 non-communicating state.
3220
3221- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3222
3223- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3224 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3225 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3226
3227- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3228 when the client lease expired.
3229
3230- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3231 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3232 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3233 in testing.
3234
3235- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3236 the command line, it would fail.
3237
3238- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3239 user impact).
3240
3241- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3242
3243- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3244 they're executable.
3245
3246 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3248- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3249 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3250 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3251 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3252
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3253- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3254 Transmeta.
3255
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3256- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3257 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3258 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3259 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3260
3261- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3262 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3263
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3265
3266- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3267 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3268
3269- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3270
3271- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3272
3273- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3274
3275- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3276
3277- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3278
3279- Update some parts of the README file.
3280
3281- Support GCC on SCO.
3282
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3284
3285- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3286 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3287
3288- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3289 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3290 unbill the old class.
3291
3292- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3293 process the state transition immediately.
3294
3295- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3296 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3297
3298- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3299
3300- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3301
3302- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3303
3304- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3305
3306- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3307 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3308 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3309
3310- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3311 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3312
3313- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3314 lease file.
3315
3316- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3317
3318- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3321
3322- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3323 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3324
3325- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3326
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3328
3329- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3330
adbef119 3331 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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3332
3333- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3334
3335- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3336 pl19.
3337
3338- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3339 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3340 past the regression test.
3341
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3343
3344- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3345 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3346
3347- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3348 DHCPREQUEST.
3349
3350- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3351
3352- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3353
3354- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3355
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3358- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3359 (Damien Neil)
3360
3361- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3362 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3363
3364- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3365 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3366 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3367
3368- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3369 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3370 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3371 message.
3372
3373- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3374 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3375 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3376
98311e4b 3377- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3378 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3379 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3380 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3381 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3382 this way will work.
3383
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3384- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3385
3386- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3387 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3388 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3389 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3390
3391 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3392
3393 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3394
3395- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3396 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3397 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3398
3399- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3400 Hermann Lauer.
3401
3402- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3403 messages.
3404
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3405- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3406 it contained quoted strings.
3407
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3408 ** there was no pl17 **
3409
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3412- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3413 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3414 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3415 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3416 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3417 tracking down memory leaks.
3418
3419- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3420 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3421 Solaris.
3422
3423- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3424 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3425 corruption and core dumps.
3426
3427- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3428 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3429
3430- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3431
3432- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3433 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3434
3435- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3436 name and version to standard output.
3437
3438- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3439
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3440- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3441 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3442
6da9db9d
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3443- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3444
3445- Lots of documentation updates.
3446
3447- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3448 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3449
3450- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3451
3452- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3453 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3454
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3456
3457- Some documentation tweaks.
3458
3459- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3460
3461- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3462
3463- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3464 agent options into them.
3465
3466- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3467
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3468- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3469 options.
3470
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3472
3473- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3474 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3475 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3476 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3477 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3478
3479- Fix up documentation.
3480
3481- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3482 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3483
3484- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3485
3486- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3487
3488- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3489 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3490 practical use otherwise.
3491
3492- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3493 for debugging.
3494
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3496
3497- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3498 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3499 dump on some systems.
3500
3501- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3502 option.
3503
3504- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3505 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3506
3507- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3508 that were not printing enough information.
3509
3510- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3511 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3512
3513- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3514 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3515 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3516 were answering.
3517
3518- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3519 the transition.
3520
3521
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3523
3524- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3525
a1e2e3d6
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3526 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3527
3528- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3529 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3530 representation from working correctly.
3531
3532- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3533 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3534 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3535 could spin.
3536
3537- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3538 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3539
3540- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3541 interface name on the command line.
3542
3543- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3544 client state.
3545
3546- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3547 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3548 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3549 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3550 added by Ted Lemon.
3551
3552- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3553 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3554
3555- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3556 end option.
3557
3558- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3559 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3560 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3561
3562- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3563 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3564 face of a null hardware address on input.
3565
3566- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3567 specified unqualified.
3568
3569- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3570 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3571
3572- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3573 RFC.
3574
3575- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3576
3577- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3578
3579- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3580 it works.
3581
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3582 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3583
3584- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3585 to CVS.
3586
9fd337e7
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3587 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3588
3589- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3590
3591- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3592 in patchlevel 9.
3593
3594- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3595 options at renewal time.
3596
3597- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3598 configuration language.
3599
3600- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3601
3602- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3603 done when no client hostname was received.
3604
3605- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3606
3607- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3608 the DHCP option space.
3609
3610- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3611
3612- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3613 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3614
3615- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3616 silently dropped.
3617
3618- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3619 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3620
3621- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3622 will be correctly updated.
3623
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3624 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3625
3626- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3627 bounds-checking.
3628
3629 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3630
3631- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3632
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3635- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3636 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3637 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3638
3639- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3640 option.
3641
3642- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3643 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3644 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3645 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3646 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3647 meaningfully.
3648
3649- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3650 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3651 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3652
3653- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3654 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3655 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3656 this one down!
3657
3658- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3659 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3660 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3661 down and fixing this problem.
3662
3663 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3664
0f6045f8
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3665- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3666 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3667
3668- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3669 environment.
3670
3671- Fix suffix operator.
3672
3673- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3674
3675- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3676 connection code.
3677
3678- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3679
3680- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3681
3682- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3683 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3684
3685- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3686
3687- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3688
3689- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3690 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3691
3692- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3693 spawn with.
3694
3695- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3696 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3697
3698- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3699 for OMAPI.
3700
3701- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3702 can install in host declarations.
3703
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3704 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3705
3706- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3707 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3708 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3709 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3710 comments)!
3711
3712- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3713
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3714- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3715 request for help on this with patches!
3716
3717- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3718 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3719 lost, they never reconnect.
3720
3721- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3722 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3723
3724- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3725 dump.
3726
3727- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3728 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3729 catching this one.
3730
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3731 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3732
3733- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3734 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3735 lease renewal time.
3736
3737- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3738 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3739 declared without a key.
3740
3741- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3742
3743- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3744 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3745
3746- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3747 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3748 determine the maximum size of the response.
3749
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3750 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3751
359b023e
TL
3752- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3753 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3754
592d8153
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3755- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3756 RENEWING client.
3757
3758- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3759
3760- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3761 using memcmp().
3762
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3763 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3764
3765- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3766 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3767 pointing this out.
3768
3769- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3770 exit.
3771
3772- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3773
3774- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3775 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.