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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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98bf1607 12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 13The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
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14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.3
43
44! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
45 Without out this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
46 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
317d1182 47 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
b95f1ee0 48 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
846af1cd 49 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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51! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
52 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
53 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
54 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
55 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
56 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
57 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
58 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
59 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
60 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
61 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
62 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
63
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64 Changes since 4.2.2
65
66- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
67 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
68 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
69 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
70
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71- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
72 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
73
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74- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
75 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
76
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77- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
78 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
79
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80 Changes since 4.2.1
81
82! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
83 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
84 interfaces with the OS.
85 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
86 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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87
88- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
89 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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90
91- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
92 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
93 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
94 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
95 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
96 in v6 mode at configure time.
97 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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99- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
100 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
101 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 102 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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104- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
105 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
106 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
107 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 108 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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110- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
111 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
112 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
113 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 114 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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116- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
117 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
118 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
119 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 120 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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122- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
123 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 124 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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125
126- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
127 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
128 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
129 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 130 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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132- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
133 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
134 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
135
136- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
137 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
138 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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139
140- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
141 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
142 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
143 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
144 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
145 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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147- Documentation fixes
148 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
149 responses to the all-ones address.
150 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
151 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
152
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153- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
154 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
155 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
156 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
157
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158- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
159 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
160
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161- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
162 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
163 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
164
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165- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
166 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
167 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
168 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
169 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
170 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
171 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
172 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
173 enable this except for testing purposes.
174 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
175 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
176
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177- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
178 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
179
180- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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182- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
183 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
184 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
185 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
186 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
187 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
188
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189- Client Script fixes
190 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
191 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
192 the domain search address is link local.
193 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
194 case of the default router information being changed without the address
195 being changed.
196
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197- Documentation cleanup
198 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
199
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200- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
201 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
202
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203- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
204 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
205 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
206 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
207
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208- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
209 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
210 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
211
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212- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
213 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
214
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215- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
216 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
217 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
218 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
219 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
220 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
221
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222- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
223 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
224 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
225 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
226 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
227 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
228 in site.h then server will be terminated
229 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
230
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231! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
232 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
233 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
234 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
235 One CVE number for each class of packet.
236 CVE-2011-2748
237 CVE-2011-2749
238
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239 Changes since 4.2.0
240
241- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
242 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
243 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
244 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
245 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
246 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
247
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248- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
249 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
250 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
251 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
252 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
253 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
254
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255- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
256 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
257 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
258
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259- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
260 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
261 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
262 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
263
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264- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
265 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
266
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267- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
268 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
269 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
270
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271- Minor code fixes
272 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
273 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
274 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
275 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
276 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
277 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
278 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
279 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
280 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
281 Thanks to Martin Pala.
282 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
283 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
284
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285- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
286
287- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
288 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
289
290- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
291 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
292
293- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
294 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
295
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296- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
297 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
298 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
299
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300- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
301 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
302
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303- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
304 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
305 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
306
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307- Fixes to lease input and output.
308 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
309 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
310 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
311 characters.
312 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
313 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
314
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315- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
316 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
317 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
318 at Red Hat.
319 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
320 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
321 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
322 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
323
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324- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
325 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
326 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
327 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
328
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329! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
330 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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331 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
332 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
333
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334- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
335 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
336 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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338- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
339 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
340 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
341 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
342 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
343
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344- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
345 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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346 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
347 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
348 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
3004baba 349
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350! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
351 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
352 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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353 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
354 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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355 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
356
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357- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
358 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
359 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
360
361- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
362 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
363 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
364
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365- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
366 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
367 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
368
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369- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
370 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
371 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
372 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
373 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
374
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375- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
376 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
377 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
378 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
379
c8b189f1 380! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 381 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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382 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
383 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 384 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
09afca0d 385 and reset its timeout value.
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386 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
387
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388- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
389 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
390 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
391 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
392
393 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
394 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
395 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
396
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397- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
398 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
399 when removing the ddns information.
400 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
401
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402- Some fixes for LDAP
403 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
404 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
405 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
406
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407- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
408 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
409
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410 Changes since 4.2.0b2
411
412- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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414 Changes since 4.2.0b1
415
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416- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
417 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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419! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
420 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 421 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 422 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
1943bbf8 423
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424- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
425
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426- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
427 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
428 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
429 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
430 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
431
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432- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
433 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
434 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
435 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
436 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
437
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438- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
439
600ee619 440- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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441 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
442
443- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
444 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
445 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
446 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
447 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
448 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
600ee619 449
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450- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
451 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
452
453 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
454 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
455
456 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
457 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
458
459 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
460 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
461
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462 Changes since 4.2.0a2
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464- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
465 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
466
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467- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
468 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
469 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 470 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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472- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
473 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
474 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
475 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
476 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
477 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
478 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
479 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
480 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
481
3c941d42 482 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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484- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
485 is no longer truncated to one octet.
486
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487- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
488
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489- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
490 reflect support for prefix delegation.
491
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492- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
493
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494- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
495 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
496 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
497 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
498 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
499 entry for each lease.
500
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501- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
502
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503 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
504
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505- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
506 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 507 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 508
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509- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
510 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
511 Cantrell at Red Hat.
512
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513- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
514 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
515
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516- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
517
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518- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
519 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
520 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
521 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
522 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
523 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
524
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525- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
526 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
527 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
528 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
529 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
530 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
531 FQDN options by default).
532
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533- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
534 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
535 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
536 determined lease time) are omitted.
537
98bf1607 538- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 539 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 540 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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541
542- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
543 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
544 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
545
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546 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
547
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548- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
549
59112e84
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550- Validate the argument to the -p option.
551
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552- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
553 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
554 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
555 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
556 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
557
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558- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
559
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560- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
561 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
562 had been deleted from configuration.
563
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564- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
565 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 566 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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567 were being ignored.
568
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569- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
570
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571- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
572 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
573 Nordahl.
574
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575- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
576 dhcpv6 disabled.
577
8d7dca58 578- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 579 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 580
f4534b17
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581- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
582 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
583
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584- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
585 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
586 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
587
588- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
589 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
590 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
591 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
592 fewer system calls.
593
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594- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
595 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
596 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
597 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
598 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
599 Christof Chen.
600
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601- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
602 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
603 and in normal state.
604
605- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
606 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
607
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608- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
609
610- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
611 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
612 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
613
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614- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
615 rather than restarting the listener.
616
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617- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
618 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
619
620- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
621 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
622 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
623
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624- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
625 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
626 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
627 timeouts).
628
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629- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
630 in failover state records.
631
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632! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
633 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
634 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 635 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 636
a1308b64
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637- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
638 processing a DHCPINFORM.
639
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640- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
641 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
642 last option definition is used.
643
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644- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
645 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
646 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
647
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648- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
649 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
650
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651- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
652 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
653 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
654 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
655 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
656 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
657
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658- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
659 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
660 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
661 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
662
e4e3a2ab
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663! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
664 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 665
875e99dc
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666- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
667 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
668
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669- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
670 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
671 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
672 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
673 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 674 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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675 configuration.
676
cd3f0b9b
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677- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
678 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
679
0493fdca
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680- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
681 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
682 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
683 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
684
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685- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
686 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
687 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
688 was always properly set.
689
adbef119 690 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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691
692- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
693 be recognized.
61d75ea2 694
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695 Changes since 4.1.0a2
696
697- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
698 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
699 "abandoned".
700
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701- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
702
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703- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
704 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
705
706- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
707 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
708
709- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 710 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 711
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712- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
713
fbcee149
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714- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
715 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
716 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
717 in future releases.
718
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719- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
720 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
721
236d3a99
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722- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
723 'dhclient -6' support.
724
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725- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
726 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
727 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
728 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
729
7d6180be 730 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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731
732- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
733
51e7687f
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734- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
735
20210a7b
EH
736- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
737 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
738 only the latter. Fixed.
739
535485df
EH
740- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
741
8fbb55ff
DH
742- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
743 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
744
61220a00
EH
745- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
746
c40e954c
EH
747- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
748
63971a83
DH
749- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
750 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
751 --enable-early-chroot.
752
66cebfcb
DH
753- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
754 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
755
f8cbf390
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756- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
757 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
758 parameter.
759
8269561d
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760- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
761 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
762
b445a411
DH
763- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
764 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
765
bd72740e
FD
766- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
767
9322442f
FD
768- Merged IA_XX related structures.
769
8dea7ba7
FD
770- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
771
4619c0a2
DH
772- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
773
9ac4206a
DH
774- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
775 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
776 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
777
420d8b3f
FD
778- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
779 support.
780
40ec5f38
DH
781- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
782 repaired.
783
80097764
FD
784- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
785
ffbaa880
FD
786- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
787
7de20a95
EH
788- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
789 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
790
d352732e
EH
791- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
792 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
793
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794- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
795 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
796
797- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
798 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
799 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
800 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
801 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
802 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
803 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
804 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
805 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
806 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
807 shared-network.
808
809- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
810 configured option values.
811
812- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
813 support class statements.
814
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DH
815- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
816 selection were repaired.
817
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818- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
819 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
820 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
821 by the OS.
822
823- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
824 address.
825
826- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
827 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
828
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829- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
830
831- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
832
833- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
834 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
835
01a54c17 836 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 837
6d7f9584
FD
838- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
839
4cafb815 840- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 841 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 842
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843- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
844 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
845 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
846
1dcc3612
SK
847- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
848 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
849
aabfa4de
FD
850- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
851
0674055a
FD
852- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
853 reserved IDs avoided).
854
b51c785f
FD
855- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
856
900405e9
FD
857- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
858 carries a rapid-commit option.
859
96b620e5
FD
860- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
861 an empty active lease.
862
be62cf06
FD
863- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
864
01a54c17
EH
865- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
866 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
867 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
868 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
869
870- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
871
872- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
873 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
874 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
875 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
876 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
877 Christof Chen.
878
879 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
880
881- DHCP now builds on AIX.
882
883- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
884 config file but -6 is not specified.
885
886- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
887
888- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
889 be more helpful.
890
891- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
892 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
893 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
894
895- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
896 was repaired.
897
898- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
899 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
900 been repaired.
901
902- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
903 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
904 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
905
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906- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
907 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
908
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909- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
910 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
911 IPv4 address.
912
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913- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
914 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
915 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
916 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
917 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
918
919- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
920 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
921 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
922
cff9b78f
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923- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
924
c4d29896
SK
925- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
926
57fcb8d9
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927- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
928 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
929 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
930 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
931 unnecessary logging.
932
219a65eb
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933- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
934 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
935
ffdf3c8c
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936- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
937 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
938 is incompatible is printed.
939
940- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
941 a previously undefined option code.
942
00a002fc
MA
943- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
944 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
945
7e9f7a1b
FD
946- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
947 than the year 2000.
948
e2cfde76
FD
949- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
950
cabdb9b1
FD
951- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
952
5d89d60f
FD
953- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
954
61d75ea2
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955 Changes since 4.0.0b3
956
957- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
958 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
959 configuration.
76db44f9 960
e32529a5
EH
961- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
962 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
963
76db44f9
SK
964- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
965 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
966 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 967
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SK
968- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
969 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
970 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
971 a requested address.
972
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973- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
974 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
975 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
976 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
977
978- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
979 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
980 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
981 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
982
b024480e
DH
983- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
984 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
985 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
986
c0216cb7
DH
987- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
988 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
989
1ac57173
FD
990- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
991
83835822
DH
992- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
993 codes through some conditions.
994
c54db708
FD
995- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
996 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
997
e5d83524
DH
998- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
999 seemingly random values.
1000
821f2dda
DH
1001- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1002
f8b3c6f4
DH
1003- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1004 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1005 one ever has.
1006
b9137d42
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1007- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1008 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1009 to a REQUEST.
1010
9f1d5a2f
DH
1011- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1012 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1013 level.
1014
e4a6be15
DH
1015 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1016
65cf86d7
EH
1017- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1018
b1d3778c
DH
1019- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1020 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1021 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1022 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1023 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1024
bead14ea
DH
1025- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1026 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1027 new address.
1028
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SK
1029 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1030
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1031- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1032 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1033 simultaneously on a single interface.
1034
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1035- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1036 of service under unusual server configurations
1037
1038- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1039
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1040- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1041 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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1043- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1044 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1045 on every pool rebalance run.
1046
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1047- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1048 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1049
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1050- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1051 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1052
ab3a540f 1053 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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1055- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1056 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1057
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1058- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1059 point out the problem.
1060
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1061- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1062 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1063 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1064
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1065- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1066 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1067
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1068- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1069 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1070 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1071
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1072- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1073
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1074- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1075 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1076
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1077- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1078 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1079 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1080 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1081
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1082- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1083
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1084- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1085 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1086 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1087 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1088 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1089
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1090- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1091
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1092 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1093
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1094- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1095 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1096
763cba6b 1097- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1098
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1099- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1100 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1101 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1102
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1103- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1104
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1105- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1106 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1107
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1108- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1109 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1110 loaded from persistent storage.
1111
45d545f0 1112- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1113 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1114 necessary.
1115
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1116- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1117 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1118 rapid-commit option.
1119
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1120- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1121 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1122
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1123 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1124
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1125- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1126 and fix.
1127
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1128- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1129
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1130- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1131
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1132- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1133 for when loading configuration.
1134
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1135- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1136 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1137 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1138
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1139- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1140 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1141 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1142 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1143
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1144- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1145
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1146- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1147 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1148
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1149- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1150
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1151- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1152
1153- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1154 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1155
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1156- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1157 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1158
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1159- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1160
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1161- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1162 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1163
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1164 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1165
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1166- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1167
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1168- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1169 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1170
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1171- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1172
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1173- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1174 initialized.
1175
1176- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1177
1178- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1179 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1180
1181- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1183- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1184
1185- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1186 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1187
1188- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1189
8ea19a71 1190- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1191 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1192
1193- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1194 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1195
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1196- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1197
1198- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1199
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1200- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1201
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1202 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1203
1204- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1205 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1206 no support currently for both.
1207
1208- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1209 IAADDR option.
1210
1211- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1212 options.
1213
1214- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1215
1216- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1217 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1218
1219- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1220 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1221 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1222
1223- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1224 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1225
1226- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1227 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1228 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1229 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1230 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1231 differently, they both use the same code here).
1232
1233- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1234 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1235 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1236
1237- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1238
1239- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1240 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1241 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1242 it should not intercept.
1243
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1244 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1245
1246- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1247 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1248 between primary and secondary.
1249
1250- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1251 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1252 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1253
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1254- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1255
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1256- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1257 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1258 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1259 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1260 or REQUEST messages.
1261
1262- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1263 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1264
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1265- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1266
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1267 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1268
1269- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1270 failover protected subnets was removed.
1271
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1272 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1273
1274- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1275 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1276 odd number of leases).
1277
1278- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1279 rebalance run, and one after.
1280
1281- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1282 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1283 processing these messages.
1284
fe5b0fdd 1285 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1286
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1287- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1288 objects.
1289
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1290- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1291 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1292 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1293 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1294 at Allianz.
1295
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1296- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1297 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1298
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1299- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1300 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1301
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1302- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1303 caused the server to abort.
1304
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1305- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1306 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1307 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1308
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1309- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1310 by empty spaces would not get included.
1311
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1312- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1313 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1314
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1315- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1316 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1317
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1318- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1319 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1320
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1321- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1322 on the parameter request list.
1323
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1324 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1325
1326- Some spelling fixes.
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1328 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1329
1330- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1331 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1332
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1333- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1334 domain-search option syntax.
1335
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1336 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1337
1338- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1339 hash table was repaired.
1340
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1341- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1342 entering normal state.
1343
1344- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1345 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1346 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1347
1348- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1349 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1351- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1352 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1353 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1354 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1355
45d545f0 1356- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1357 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1358 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1359 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1360 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1361 to their needs.
1362
1363- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1364 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1365 run will attempt balance.
1366
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1367- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1368
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1369 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1370
1371- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1372 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1373 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1374 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1375
98bd7ca0 1376- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1377 was introduced.
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1378
1379- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1380 via OMAPI.
1381
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1382- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1383 the protocol draft.
1384
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1385- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1386 one does not already exist on the system.
1387
b43c87ad 1388- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1389
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1390- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1391 matches RFC 3074.
1392
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1393- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1394 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1395 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1397- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1398 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1399 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1400
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1401- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1402 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1403 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1404 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1405
1406- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1407 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1408 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1409 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1410
f7fdb216 1411- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1412 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1413 DHCPv6 support.
1414
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1415- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1416 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1417 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1418
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1419- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1420 have been incorporated.
1421
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1422- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1423 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1424 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1425 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1426 that belong to the peer in need.
1427
1428- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1429 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1430
1431- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1432 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1433 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1434
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1435- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1436 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1437
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1438- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1439 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1440 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1441 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1442 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1443
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1444- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1445 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1446 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1447 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1448
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1449- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1450 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1451 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1452 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1453 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1454 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1455 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1456 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1457 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1458
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1459- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1460 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1461
41e45067 1462- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1463 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1464 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1465 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1466
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1467- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1468 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1469 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1470 hardware and funding the development.
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1472- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1473 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1474 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1475 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1476 via Robin Breathe.
1477
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1478- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1479 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1480 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1481 from Christof Chen.
1482
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1483- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1484 formally supported.
1485
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1486 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1487
1488- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1489 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1490
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1491 Changes since 3.0.5
1492
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1493- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1494 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1495 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1496 they actually received.
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1497
1498- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1499
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1500- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1501 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1502 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1503 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1504
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1505- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1506
d69fb6a8 1507- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1508 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1510- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1511 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1512 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1513 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1514 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1515 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1516 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1517 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1518
1519- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1520 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1521 'file' field.
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1523- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1524 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1525
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1526- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1527 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1528 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1529
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1530- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1531 from Chris Wagner.
1532
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1533- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1534 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1535 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1536
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1537- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1538 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1539 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1540 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1541 was set.
1542
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1543- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1544 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1545
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1546- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1547 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1548 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1549 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1550 active ones.
1551
02428754 1552 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1553
901306d5 1554- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1555 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1556 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1557 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1558 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1559
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1560- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1561 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1562
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1563 Changes since 3.0.4
1564
1565- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1566 scopes are actually global has been added.
1567
1568- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1569 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1570 known to be damaging.
1571
1572- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1573 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1574 balancing).
1575
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1576- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1577 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1578 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1579
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1580- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1581 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1582 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1583
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1584- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1585 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1586 more clear now.
1587
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1588- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1589 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1590 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1591 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1592 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1593 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1595- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1596 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1597
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1598- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1599 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1600 made possible.
1601
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1602- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1603 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1604 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1605
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1606- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1607 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1608
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1609- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1610 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1611 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1612
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1613- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1614 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1615 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1616 value with the later configured value).
1617
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1618- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1619 have been named and documented.
1620
1621- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1622 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1623 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1624 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1625 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1626 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1627 write new output.
1628
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1629 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1630
1631- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1632 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1633
1634 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1635
1636- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1637 mailing list.
1638
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1639 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1640
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1642 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1643
1644- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1645 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1646
1647- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1648 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1649 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1650 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1651
1652- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1653 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1654 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1655 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1656 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1657 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1658 transition (properly).
1659
1660- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1661
1662 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1663
1664- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1665 STDIN after reading one line.
1666
1667- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1668 descriptor it opened twice.
1669
1670- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1671 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1672 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1673
1674 Changes since 3.0.3
1675
1676- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1677 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1678 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1679
1680- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1681 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1682 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1683
1684- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1685 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1686 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1687 leases to allocate.
1688
1689- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1690 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1691 than the entire block of them.
1692
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1693! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1694 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1695 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1696 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1697 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1698 to a patch from infamous42md.
1699
1700! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1701 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1702 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1703 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1704 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1705 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1706
1707- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1708 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1709 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1710
1711- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1712 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1713
1714- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1715 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1716 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1717 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1718 transitional states.
1719
1720- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1721 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1722 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1723
1724- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1725 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1726 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1727
1728- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1729 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1730
1731- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1732 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1733
1734- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1735 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1736 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1737
1738- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1739 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1740
1741- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1742 repaired.
1743
1744- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1745 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1746 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1747 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1748
1749- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1750 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1751 data.
1752
1753- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1754 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1755 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1756 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1757 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1758
1759- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1760 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1761 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1762 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1763 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1764
1765- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1766 has been repaired.
1767
1768- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1769 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1770 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1771 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1772 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1773
1774- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1775 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1777- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1778 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1779 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1780 move to 3.[01].x.
1781
1782- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1783 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1784
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1785 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1786
1787- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1788 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1789
1790- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1791 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1792 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1793 workaround.
1794
1795 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1796
1797- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1798 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1799
1800 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1801
1802- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1803 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1804 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1805
1806- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1807 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1808 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1809
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1810 Changes since 3.0.2
1811
1812- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1813 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1814 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1815
1816- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1817 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1818 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1819 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1820 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1821
1822- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1823 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1824 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1825
1826- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1827 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1828 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1829
1830- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1831 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1832 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1833 Peter Poeml.
1834
1835- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1836 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1837
1838- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1839 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1840 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1841 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1842 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1843 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1844
1845- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1846 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1847 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1848 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1849
1850- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1851 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1852 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1853 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1854
1855- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1856 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1857
1858- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1859 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1860 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1861
1862- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1863 7 bytes, and failover.
1864
1865- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1866 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1867 at Red Hat.
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1868
1869- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1870 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1871 should work better.
1872
1873- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1874 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1875 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1876
1877- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1878 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1879 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1880
1881 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1882
1883- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1884 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1885
1886 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1887
45d545f0 1888- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1889 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1890 overloading. This was repaired.
1891
1892- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1893 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1894 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1895 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1896 three chunks to fit.
1897
1898- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1899 were repaired.
1900
1901- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1902 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1903 leak).
1904
1905 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1906
1907- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1908 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1909
1910 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1911
1912- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1913
1914 Changes since 3.0.1
1915
1916- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1917 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1918 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1919
1920- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1921 name was not provided by the server.
1922
1923- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1924 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1925
1926- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1927 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1928
1929- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1930 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1931
1932- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1933
1934- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1935
1936- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1937 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1938 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1939 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1940 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1941
1942- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1943 the configuration be globally scoped.
1944
1945- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1946 Farkas.
1947
1948- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1949 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1950
1951- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1952 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1953
1954- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1955 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1956
1957- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1958 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1959 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1960 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1961
1962- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1963 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1964 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1965 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1966
1967- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1968 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1969 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1970
1971- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1972
1973- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1974 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1975 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1976
1977- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1978 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1979 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1980 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1981 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1982
1983- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1984 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1985
1986- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1987 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1988
1989- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1990 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1991 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1992 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1993
1994- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1995 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1996
1997- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1998 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1999 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2000
2001- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2002 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2003 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2004 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2005 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2006 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2007
2008- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2009 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2010 Infoblox.
2011
2012- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2013
2014- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2015 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2016 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2017 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2018 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2019 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2020 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2021
2022- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2023 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2024 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2025
2026- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2027 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2028 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2029
2030- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2031
2032 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2033
2034- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2035 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2036 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2037 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2038 systems either.
2039
2040- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2041
2042- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2043 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2044 is false.
2045
2046- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2047 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2048
2049- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2050
2051 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2052
2053! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2054 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2055 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2056 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2057 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2058 both finding and solving the problem.
2059
2060! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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2062 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2063 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2064 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2065 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2066 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2067 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2068 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2069 published version of ISC DHCP.
2070
2071- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2072
2073- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2074
2075 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2076
2077- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2078 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2079 Richard Hirst.
2080
2081- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2082 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2083 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2084
2085- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2086
2087- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2088 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2089 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2090 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2091
2092- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2093 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2094
2095- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2096 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2097
2098- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2099
2100 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2101
2102- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2103 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2104
2105- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2106 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2107 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2108
2109- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2110 by name was fixed.
2111
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2113 longer result in error.
2114
2115- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2116
2117- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2118 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2119 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2120
2121- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2122 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2123
2124- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2125 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2126 Blapp.
2127
2128- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2129 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2130 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2131 Martin Blapp.
2132
2133- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2134 expiry times in failover configurations.
2135
2136- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2137 Steve G.
2138
2139- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2140 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2141
2142- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2143 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2144 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2145 now "unknown-144".
2146
2147- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2148 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2149
2150 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2151
2152- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2153
2154- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2155 not be bash.
2156
2157- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2158
2159- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2160 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2161 that errored before will now work properly.
2162
2163- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2164 names was repaired.
2165
2166- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2167 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2168 configuration file.
2169
2170- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2171 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2172
2173- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2174 error rather than a null dereference.
2175
2176 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2177
2178- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2179
2180- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2181
2182- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2183 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2184
2185- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2186
2187- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2188
2189- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2190 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2191 self-corrupting lease databases.
2192
2193- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2194
2195- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2196 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2197
2198- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2199
2200- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2201
2202- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2203 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2204 Ling Gou.
2205
2206- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2207 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2208
2209- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2210 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2211 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2212
2213- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2214 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2215
2216 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2217
2218- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2219 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2220
2221- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2222
2223- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2224 a memory leak.
2225
2226- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2227 script.
2228
2229- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2230
2231- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2232
2233- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2234
2235- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2236
2237- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2238
2239- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2240
2241- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2242
2243- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2244
2245- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2246
2247- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2248
2249- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2250
2251- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2252
2253 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2254
2255- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2256 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2257 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2258
2259 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2260
2261- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2262 to be renewed.
2263
2264- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2265 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2266
2267- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2268 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2269
2270- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2271 that two permit lists matched.
2272
2273- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2274 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2275
2276- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2277
2278- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2279 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2280
2281- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2282
2283- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2284
2285- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2286 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2287 going to update its A record.
2288
2289- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2290 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2291 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2292 DNS server.
2293
2294- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2295
2296- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2297
2298- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2299 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2300 NetBSD project).
2301
2302- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2303 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2304
2305- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2306 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2307
2308- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2309
2310- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2311
2312- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2313 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2314 failover protocol standard.
2315
2316- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2317 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2318 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2319
2320- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2321 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2322 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2323 do so.
2324
2325- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2326
2327 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2328
2329- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2330
2331- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2332 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2333
2334- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2335 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2336
2337- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2338 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2339 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2340
2341- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2342 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2343 network, merge the two pools.
2344
2345- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2346 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2347 fix this bug.
2348
2349 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2350
2351- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2352 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2353
2354- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2355 the same case.
2356
2357- Additional documentation.
2358
2359- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2360 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2361
2362 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2363
2364- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2365- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2366
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2368
2369- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2370 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2371 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2372 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2373 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2374
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2376
2377- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2378 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2379 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2380 wasn't the one that removed it.
2381
2382- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2383 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2384 were not configured.
2385
2386- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2387
2388- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2389 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2390 routing information.
2391
2392- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2393 request being sent.
2394
2395- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2396 done.
2397
2398- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2399 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2400 were pending.
2401
2402- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2403 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2404 problems with failover.
2405
2406- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2407 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2408 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2409
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2411
2412- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2413 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2414
2415- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2416 no object is open, it dumps core.
2417
2418- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2419
2420- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2421
2422- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2423
2424- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2425 a host object attribute with a null value.
2426
2427 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2428
2429- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2430
2431- Fix an obscure core dump.
2432
2433- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2434 when crucial information is left out.
2435
2436- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2437
2438- Documentation updates.
2439
2440 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2441
2442- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2443
2444- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2445 structure wasn't zeroed.
2446
2447- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2448 incorrectly.
2449
2450- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2451 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2452 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2453 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2454 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2455 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2456 restarted.
2457
2458 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2459
2460- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2461 in failover-enabled pools.
2462
2463- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2464 declarations).
2465
2466- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2467 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2468
2469- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2470 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2471
2472- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2473
2474- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2475 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2476
2477- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2478
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2480
2481- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2482
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2484
2485- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2486
2487- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2488
2489- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2490
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2492
2493- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2494 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2495 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2496
2497- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2498 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2499 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2500 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2501 string.
2502
2503- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2504
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2506
2507- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2508 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2509
2510- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2511 malformed packets.
2512
2513- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2514
2515- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2516 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2517 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2518
2519- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2520
2521- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2522
2523- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2524
2525- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2526 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2527
2528- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2529 tcp connections from being played back.
2530
2531- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2532 on exit.
2533
2534- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2535
2536- Add some configurability to the build system.
2537
2538- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2539
2540- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2541 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2542 hadn't been noticed until now.
2543
2544 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2545
2546- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2547 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2548
2549- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2550 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2551 conformant, but also didn't work).
2552
2553- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2554 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2555
2556- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2557 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2558
2559- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2560 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2561
2562- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2563 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2564
2565- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2566 doing failover.
2567
2568- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2569 running on alpha processors.
2570
2571- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2572 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2573
2574- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2575
2576- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2577
2578- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2579 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2580
2581- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2582
2583- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2584 actually named (key names are domain names).
2585
2586- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2587
2588- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2589 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2590
2591- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2592 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2593
2594- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2595 statements.
2596
2597- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2598 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2599
2600- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2601 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2602 operating.
2603
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2605
2606- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2607 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2608 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2609 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2610
2611- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2612 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2613
2614- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2615
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2617
2618- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2619 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2620
2621- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2622 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2623 to the chain.
2624
2625- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2626
2627- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2628
2629- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2630
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2632 attribute values in omshell.
2633
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2635
2636- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2637
2638 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2639
2640- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2641 DHCPDECLINE.
2642
2643- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2644
2645- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2646 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2647 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2648
2649- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2650
2651- Documentation fixes.
2652
2653- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2654 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2655
2656- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2657 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2658
2659- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2660
2661- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2662
2663- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2664 case-insensitive.
2665
2666- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2667
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2670 consistently.
2671
2672- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2673 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2674
2675- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2676
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2678
2679- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2680 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2681 result of duplicate leases.
2682
2683- Document OMAPI server objects.
2684
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2686
2687- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2688 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2689
2690- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2691 core dumps.
2692
2693- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2694 Friedrich.
2695
2696- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2697
2698 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2699
2700- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2701 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2704
2705- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2706 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2707
2708- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2709 trace file.
2710
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2713- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2714 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2715 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2716 e.g., Digital Unix.
2717
2718- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2719 when no error had occurred.
2720
2721- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2722 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2723 non-communicating state.
2724
2725- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2726
2727- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2728 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2729 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2730
2731- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2732 when the client lease expired.
2733
2734- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2735 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2736 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2737 in testing.
2738
2739- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2740 the command line, it would fail.
2741
2742- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2743 user impact).
2744
2745- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2746
2747- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2748 they're executable.
2749
2750 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2752- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2753 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2754 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2755 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2756
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2757- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2758 Transmeta.
2759
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2760- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2761 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2762 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2763 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2764
2765- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2766 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2767
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2769
2770- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2771 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2772
2773- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2774
2775- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2776
2777- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2778
2779- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2780
2781- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2782
2783- Update some parts of the README file.
2784
2785- Support GCC on SCO.
2786
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2788
2789- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2790 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2791
2792- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2793 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2794 unbill the old class.
2795
2796- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2797 process the state transition immediately.
2798
2799- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2800 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2801
2802- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2803
2804- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2805
2806- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2807
2808- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2809
2810- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2811 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2812 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2813
2814- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2815 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2816
2817- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2818 lease file.
2819
2820- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2821
2822- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 2823
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2825
2826- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2827 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2828
2829- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2830
adbef119 2831 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2832
2833- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2834
adbef119 2835 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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2836
2837- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2838
2839- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2840 pl19.
2841
2842- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2843 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2844 past the regression test.
2845
adbef119 2846 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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2847
2848- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2849 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2850
2851- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2852 DHCPREQUEST.
2853
2854- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2855
2856- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2857
2858- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2859
adbef119 2860 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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2862- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2863 (Damien Neil)
2864
2865- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2866 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2867
2868- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2869 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2870 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2871
2872- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2873 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2874 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2875 message.
2876
2877- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2878 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2879 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2880
98311e4b 2881- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2882 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2883 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2884 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2885 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2886 this way will work.
2887
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2888- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2889
2890- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2891 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2892 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2893 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2894
2895 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2896
2897 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2898
2899- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2900 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2901 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2902
2903- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2904 Hermann Lauer.
2905
2906- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2907 messages.
2908
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2909- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2910 it contained quoted strings.
2911
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2912 ** there was no pl17 **
2913
adbef119 2914 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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2916- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2917 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2918 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2919 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2920 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2921 tracking down memory leaks.
2922
2923- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2924 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2925 Solaris.
2926
2927- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2928 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2929 corruption and core dumps.
2930
2931- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2932 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2933
2934- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2935
2936- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2937 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2938
2939- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2940 name and version to standard output.
2941
2942- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2943
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2944- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2945 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2946
6da9db9d
TL
2947- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2948
2949- Lots of documentation updates.
2950
2951- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2952 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2953
2954- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2955
2956- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2957 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2958
adbef119 2959 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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2960
2961- Some documentation tweaks.
2962
2963- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2964
2965- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2966
2967- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2968 agent options into them.
2969
2970- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2971
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2972- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2973 options.
2974
adbef119 2975 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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2976
2977- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2978 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2979 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2980 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2981 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2982
2983- Fix up documentation.
2984
2985- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2986 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2987
2988- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2989
2990- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2991
2992- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2993 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2994 practical use otherwise.
2995
2996- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2997 for debugging.
2998
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3000
3001- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3002 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3003 dump on some systems.
3004
3005- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3006 option.
3007
3008- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3009 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3010
3011- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3012 that were not printing enough information.
3013
3014- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3015 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3016
3017- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3018 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3019 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3020 were answering.
3021
3022- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3023 the transition.
3024
3025
adbef119 3026 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3027
3028- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3029
a1e2e3d6
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3030 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3031
3032- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3033 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3034 representation from working correctly.
3035
3036- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3037 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3038 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3039 could spin.
3040
3041- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3042 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3043
3044- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3045 interface name on the command line.
3046
3047- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3048 client state.
3049
3050- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3051 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3052 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3053 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3054 added by Ted Lemon.
3055
3056- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3057 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3058
3059- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3060 end option.
3061
3062- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3063 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3064 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3065
3066- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3067 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3068 face of a null hardware address on input.
3069
3070- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3071 specified unqualified.
3072
3073- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3074 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3075
3076- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3077 RFC.
3078
3079- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3080
3081- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3082
3083- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3084 it works.
3085
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3086 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3087
3088- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3089 to CVS.
3090
9fd337e7
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3091 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3092
3093- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3094
3095- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3096 in patchlevel 9.
3097
3098- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3099 options at renewal time.
3100
3101- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3102 configuration language.
3103
3104- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3105
3106- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3107 done when no client hostname was received.
3108
3109- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3110
3111- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3112 the DHCP option space.
3113
3114- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3115
3116- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3117 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3118
3119- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3120 silently dropped.
3121
3122- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3123 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3124
3125- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3126 will be correctly updated.
3127
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3128 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3129
3130- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3131 bounds-checking.
3132
3133 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3134
3135- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3136
3922772a 3137 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3138
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3139- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3140 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3141 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3142
3143- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3144 option.
3145
3146- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3147 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3148 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3149 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3150 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3151 meaningfully.
3152
3153- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3154 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3155 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3156
3157- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3158 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3159 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3160 this one down!
3161
3162- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3163 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3164 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3165 down and fixing this problem.
3166
3167 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3168
0f6045f8
TL
3169- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3170 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3171
3172- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3173 environment.
3174
3175- Fix suffix operator.
3176
3177- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3178
3179- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3180 connection code.
3181
3182- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3183
3184- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3185
3186- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3187 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3188
3189- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3190
3191- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3192
3193- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3194 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3195
3196- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3197 spawn with.
3198
3199- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3200 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3201
3202- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3203 for OMAPI.
3204
3205- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3206 can install in host declarations.
3207
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3208 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3209
3210- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3211 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3212 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3213 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3214 comments)!
3215
3216- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3217
6ed7a93d
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3218- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3219 request for help on this with patches!
3220
3221- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3222 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3223 lost, they never reconnect.
3224
3225- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3226 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3227
3228- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3229 dump.
3230
3231- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3232 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3233 catching this one.
3234
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3235 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3236
3237- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3238 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3239 lease renewal time.
3240
3241- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3242 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3243 declared without a key.
3244
3245- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3246
3247- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3248 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3249
3250- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3251 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3252 determine the maximum size of the response.
3253
592d8153
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3254 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3255
359b023e
TL
3256- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3257 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3258
592d8153
TL
3259- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3260 RENEWING client.
3261
3262- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3263
3264- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3265 using memcmp().
3266
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3267 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3268
3269- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3270 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3271 pointing this out.
3272
3273- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3274 exit.
3275
3276- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3277
3278- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3279 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.