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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
d618ba48 2 Version 4.4.0-pre-alpha
33dca28a 3 29 March 2016
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
cb0d7e7c 21This release also adds support for the standard DDNS as described in the
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22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
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57- Insert the raw data from a fully encapsualted option into the option cache.
58 This allows "exists" to check for the option if any sub options exist. It
59 also adds the raw data to the environment variables supplied to the client
60 script.
61 [ISC-Bugs #39863]
62
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63- Removed an extraneous expression in omapi socket callback function. Prior
64 to this change, the logic was techinically incorrect but other factors
65 ensured the outcome itself was correct. This change was made primarily
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66 for code clarity. Thanks to Ganesh Pinjala for bringing the issue to our
67 attention.
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68 [ISC-Bugs #42834]
69
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70- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
71 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
72 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
73 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
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75- Pass configure arguments which begin with an upper case letter, e.g.
76 CFLAGS, to the embedded bind configure, so it is no longer required
77 to use environment variables to get the same effect.
78 [ISC-Bugs #35143]
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80- Added --enable-kqueue, --enable-epoll, --enable-devpoll and a more
81 general --with-bind-extra-config to pass extra options to the
82 embedded bind configure. Note we had mixed experiences with this
54ee18cf 83 so it is at the user risk, i.e., they are NOT SUPPORTED yet.
f285576d 84 [ISC-Bugs #20890]
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86- Changed the way the embedded bind Makefile is updated by configure.
87 The only user visible side effect is that --with-libbind now requires
88 either "no" or an (absolute) path, i.e. "yes" is no longer valid.
89 [ISC-Bugs #43227]
90
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91- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
92 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
93 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
94 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
95 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
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97- Added the support for git repositories in the util/bind.sh script.
98 When you build ISC DHCP from a git repo, i.e., without a "bind"
99 directory populated as in the release distribution file, you may now
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100 create the bind directory, change to it and clone the private
101 (repo.isc.org/proj/git/prod/bind9.git) or the public
290a7613 102 (https://source.isc.org/git/bind9.git) git repository into
d163c8f7 103 bind/bind9 and then invoke the util/bind.sh script as usual.
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104 Note this option is incompatible with "make dist" (and make "distcheck")
105 because no bind/bind.tar.gz nor bind/version.tmp files are available.
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106 [ISC-Bugs #43236]
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108- Use the embedded bind libraries where they are built (vs where they
109 are installed).
110 [ISC-Bugs #39319]
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112- Use last version (9.11) of plain embedded bind libraries in place of
113 older (9.9) version of export bind libraries.
114 [ISC-Bugs #43215]
115
5a2e8c37 116- Using "make distcheck" now works with external bind libraries (aka
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117 configure --with-libbind).
118 [ISC-Bugs #43285]
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120- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
121 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
122 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
123 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
124 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
125 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
126 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
127 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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129- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
130 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
131 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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132 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
133 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
134 arguments.
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135 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
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137- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
138 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
139 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
140 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
141 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
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143- When replying to a DHCPINFORM, the server will now include options specified
144 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
145 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
146 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
147 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
0aa74669 148 [ISC-Bugs #45051]
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150- Fixed a bug in OMAPI that causes omshell to crash when a name-value
151 pair with a zero length value is shipped in an object. Thanks to
152 Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and
153 supplying the patch.
154 [ISC-Bugs #29108]
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156- IPv6 operation now supports an EUI-64 based address allocation which will
157 calculate addresses for clients with EUI-64 DUIDs based on those DUIDs when
158 enabled by setting use-eui-64 true. The parameter may defined down to the
159 pool scope. Note this feature must be compiled in by defining EUI_64 in
160 includes/site.h. This flag is undefined by default.
161 [ISC-Bugs #43927]
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163- On 64-bit platforms, dhclient now generates the correct value for the
164 script environment variable, "expiry", the lease expiry value exceeds
165 0x7FFFFFFF. Prior to this such values would produce negative values
166 for expiry in the script environment.
167 [ISC-Bugs #43326]
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169- Common timer logic was modified to cap the maximum timeout values at
170 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. Values larger than that were causing fatal timer out of
171 range errors on 64-bit platforms. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
172 reporting the issue.
173 [ISC-Bugs #28038]
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2f5fefd3 175- DHCP6 FQDN option unpacking code now correctly handles values that contain
176 spaces, special, or non-printable characters. Prior to this the buffer
177 size needed was underestitmate causing a conversion error message to
178 be logged and DNS updates to be skipped. Thanks to Fernando Soto at
179 BlueCat Networks for bringing the matter to our attention.
180 [ISC-Bugs #43592]
181
1d7fceeb 182- When running in -6 mode, dhclient now enforces the require option statement
183 and will discard offered leases that do not contain all the required
184 options specified in the client configuration. Prior to this the client
185 would still consider such leases. This may be disabled at compile time
2c7ccd41 186 (see ENFORCE_DHCPV6_CLIENT_REQUIRE in includes/site.h). Thanks to
187 Mritunjaykumar Dubey at Nokia for reporting the issue.
1d7fceeb 188 [ISC-Bugs #41473]
189
d618ba48 190 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
0b0a1399 191
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192- Tidy up several small tickets.
193 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
194 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
195 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
196 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
197 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
198 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
199 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
200 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
201 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
202 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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204- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
205 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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207- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
208 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
209 Popelka at Red Hat.
210 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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212- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
213 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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215- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
216 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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218- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
219 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
220 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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222- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
223 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
224 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
225 option in the list.
226 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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228- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
229 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
230 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
231 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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233- Remove unused RCSID tags.
234 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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236- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
237 for MRT limit it to MRD.
238 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
239 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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241- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
242 when a server, relay or client are killed.
243 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
244 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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246- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
247 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
248 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
249 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
250 given the "-1" argument.
251 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
252 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
253 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
254 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
255 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
256 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
257 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
258 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
259 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
21f3982a 260
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261- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
262 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
263 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
264 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
265 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
266 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
267 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
268 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
269 to syslog.
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271- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
272 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
273 number in syslog messages.
274 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
275 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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277- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
278 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
279 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
280 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
281 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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283- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
284 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
285 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
286 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
287 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
288 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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290- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
291 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
292 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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294- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
295 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
296 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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298- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
299 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
300 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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302- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
303 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
304 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
305 in a pool are used.
306 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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308- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
309 on an error condition.
310 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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312- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
313 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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315- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
316 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
317 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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319- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
320 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
321 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
322 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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324- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
325 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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327- Tidy up receive packet processing.
328 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
329 a possible patch.
330 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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332- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
333 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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335- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
336 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
337 and hmac-sha512
338 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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340- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
341 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 342 patch.
d618ba48 343 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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345- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
346 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
347 provided the patch.
348 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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350- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
351 after the configuration file has been processed.
352 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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354- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
355 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
356 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
357 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
358 compilers that was introduced by #36712
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360- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
361 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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363- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
364 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
365 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
366 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
367 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
368 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
369 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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371- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
372 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
373 bug report and patch.
374 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
375 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
376 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
377 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
378 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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380- Addressed checksum issues:
381 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
382 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
383 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
384 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
385 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
386 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
387 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
388 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
389 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
390 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
391 than being dropped.
392 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
393 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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395- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
396 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
397 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
398 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
399 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
400 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
401 inbound request to a known subnet.
402 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
403 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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405- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
406 BOOTP request handling.
407 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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409- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
410 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
411 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
412 the patch upon which the fix is based.
413 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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415- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
416 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
417 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
418 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
419 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
420 modified to send requests more often.
421 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
422 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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424- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
425 name from the following in order of preference:
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427 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
428 2. Host name option if provided by the client
429 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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431 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
432 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
433 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
434 and no other value is available.
435 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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437- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
438 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
439 corrected.
440 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
441 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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443- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
444 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
445 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
446 components.
447 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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449- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
450 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
451 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
452 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
453 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
454 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
455 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
456 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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458- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
459 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
460 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
461 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
462 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
463 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
464 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
465 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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467- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
468 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
469 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
470 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
471 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
472 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
473 bug and supplying a patch.
474 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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476- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
477 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
478 leae expiration code.
479 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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481- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
482 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
483 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
484 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
485 files.
486 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
487 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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489- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
490 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
491 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
492 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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494- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
495 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
496 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
497 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
498 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
499 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
500 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
501 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
502 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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504- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
505 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
506 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
507 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
508 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
509 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
510 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
511 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
512 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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514- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
515 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
516 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
517 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
518 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
519 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
520 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
521 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
522 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
523 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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526 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
527 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
528 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
529 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
530 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
531 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
532 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
533
534- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
535 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
536 bug report and patch.
537 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
538
539- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
540 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
541 code consistent across versions.
542 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
543
544- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
545 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
546 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
547 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
548 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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550 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
551
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553 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
554 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
555 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
556 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
557 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
558 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
559 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
560 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
561 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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563 inspired the fix.
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567 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
568 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
569 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 570 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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572- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
573 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
574 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
575 a proper length for it.
576 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
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579 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
580 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
581 reasonable to remove it.
582 [ISC-Buts #39019]
583
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cacce092 585 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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586 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
587 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
588
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589- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
590 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
591 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
592 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
593 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
594
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595- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
596 table 3.
597 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
598
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599- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
600 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
601 the issue and suggesting the patch.
602 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
603
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604- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
605 of as a token.
606 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
607
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608- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
609 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
610 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
611 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
612 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
613 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
614 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
615
cca6a648 616- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
617 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
618 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
619 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
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622 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
623 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
624
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627 for the bug report.
cca6a648 628 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
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630- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
631 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
632 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
633 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
634 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 635 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 636 reporting the issue.
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639- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
640 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
641 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
642 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
643 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
644 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
645 itself.
646 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
647
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648- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
649 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
650 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
651 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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653- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
654 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
655 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
656 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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659 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
660 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
661 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
662 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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665 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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666 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
667 issue.
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669
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671 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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673 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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674 GSSAPI authentication. We would like to thank the following for their
675 contributions (alphabetically):
676 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 677 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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678 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
679 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 680 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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681 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
682 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
683 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
684 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
685 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
686 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
687 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
688 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
689 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
690 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
691 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
692 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
693 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
694 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
695
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698 and suggesting a patch.
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701- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
702 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
703 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
704 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
705 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
706
45adf35c 707- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 708 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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709 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
710 the issue.
4e1bf548 711 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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714 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
715 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
716 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
717 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
718 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
719 tests.
720 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
721 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
722 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
723 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
724 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
725 use the command "make -k check".
726 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
727
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729 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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732 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
733 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
734 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
735 keep the previous behavior.
736 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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738- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
739 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
740 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
741 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
742 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
743 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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745- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
746 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
747 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
748 address them.
749 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
750 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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752- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
753 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
754 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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756- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
757 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
758 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
759 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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761- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
762 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
763 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
764 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
765 not show a value.
766 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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768- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
769 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
770 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
771 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
772 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
773 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
774 he provided.
775 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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777- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
778 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
779 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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781- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
782 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
783 the issue and supplying the patches.
784 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
785 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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787- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
788 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
789 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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791- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
792 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
793 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
794 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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796- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
797 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
798 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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800! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
801 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
802 patch.
803 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
804 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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806- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
807 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
808 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
809 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
810 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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812- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
813 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
814 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
815 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
816 the software to fail.
817 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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820 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
821 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
822 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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825 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
826 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
827 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
828 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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830- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
831 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
832 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
833 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
834 update as an "invalid state transition".
835 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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838 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
839 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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841- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
842 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
843 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
844 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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846- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
847 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
848 modified to work as infinite.
849 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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851- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
852 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
853 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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855- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
856 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
857 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
858 option as per RFC 6939.
859 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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861- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
862 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
863 for cross compilation.
864 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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866- Add more option definitions.
867 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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869- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
870 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
871 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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873- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
874 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
875 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
876 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
877 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
878 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
879 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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881- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
882 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
883 feature.
884 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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886- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
887 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
888 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
889 relay.
890 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
891 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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893- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
894 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
895 Section 22.4.
896 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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898- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
899 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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901- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
902 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
903 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
904 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
905 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
906 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
907 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
908 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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910- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
911 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
912 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
913 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
86bda88b 914 submitting a patch
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915 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
916 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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918- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
919 decoding a packet.
920 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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922- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
923 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
924 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
925 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
926 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
927 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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930 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
931 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
932 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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934- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
935 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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937- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
938 of circuit id length.
939 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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942 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
943 returned in responses.
944 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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947 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
948 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
949 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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951- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
952 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
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954 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
955 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
956 for reporting the issue.
d618ba48 957 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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960 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
961 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
962 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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965 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
966 a cut and paste error.
967 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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970 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
971 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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974 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
975 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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977 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
978 with us to produce a viable solution.
d618ba48 979 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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982 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
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984 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
985 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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2b5c8201 988 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
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991 patch.
d618ba48 992 [ISC-Bugs #42113]
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995 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
996 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
997 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
998 verify the problem and fix.
999 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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1002 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
1003 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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1007 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
1008 it runs out.
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1012 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
1013 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
1014 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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1017- Clean up some memory references in the vendor-class construct.
1018 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
1019
86bda88b 1020- The configure script for use with libtool now catches a failure to
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1021 execute autoreconf. Prior to this, autoreconf failures would go undetected
1022 causing the legacy configure script to loop when run with --enable-libtool.
1023 [ISC-Bugs #43546]
1024
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1026 "Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
1027 [ISC-Bugs #32744]
1028
86bda88b 1029- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
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1030 as is done for BSD and OS-X. Prior to this the code would only recognize
1031 the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
1032 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at Suse, and Wei
1033 Kong at Novell, who all submitted patches.
1034 [ISC-Bugs #28761]
1035 [ISC-Bugs #31992]
1036 [ISC-Bugs #25428]
1037 [ISC-Bugs #31940]
1038
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1039- The new lmdb (Lightning Memory DataBase) bind9 configure option is
1040 now disabled by default to avoid the presence of this library to be
1041 detected which can lead to a link failure.
1042 [ISC-Bugs #45069]
1043
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1045
1046- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
1047 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
1048 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
1049 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
1050 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
1051 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 1052 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 1053 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 1054 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 1055 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
51b8a8a0 1056
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1057- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
1058 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
1059 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
1060
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1061- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
1062 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
1063 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
1064 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1065 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 1066
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1067- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1068 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1069 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1070 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1071 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1072 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1073
a7341359 1074- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 1075 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 1076
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1077- Add support for using classes with v6.
1078 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
1079
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1080- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
1081 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1082 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1083 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1084 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1085 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1086 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1087 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1089- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1090 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1091 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1092 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1093 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1094 not recommended.
64fb661c 1095 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
cde11a4c 1096
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1097- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1098 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1099 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1100 This is "Server starting service.".
1101 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1102 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1103 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1104 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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1107 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1108 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1109 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1110 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1111 man page for a description.
1112 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1113
e54ff84f 1114- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1115 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1116 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1117 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1118 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1119 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1120 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1121
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1122- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1123 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1124 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1125 one instance of their respective address types.
1126 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
4d079f0e 1127
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1128- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1129 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1130 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1131 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1132 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1133 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1134 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1136- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1137 and take host declarations into account.
1138 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1139 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1140
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1141- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1142 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1143 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1144 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 1145
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1146- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1147 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1148 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1149
01a44a77 1150 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
8ee352ee 1151
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1152- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1153 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1154
01a44a77 1155- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1156
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1157- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1158 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1159
01a44a77 1160- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1161
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1162- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1163 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1164 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1165 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1166 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1167 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1168
01a44a77 1169- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1170
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1171- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1172 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1173
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1174- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1175 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1176 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1177 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1178
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1179- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1180 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1181 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1182 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1183 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1184 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1185 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1186 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1187 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
c5bc8b1a 1188
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1189- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1190 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
cc17cbc3 1191
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1192! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1193 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1194 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1195 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1196
01a44a77 1197- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1198
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1199- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1200 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1201 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1202 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1203 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1204
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1205- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1206 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1207 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1208 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1209 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1210
01a44a77 1211- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1212
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1213- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1214 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1215
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1216- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1217 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1218 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1219 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1220 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1221 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
47e8308d 1222
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1223- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1224 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1225
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1226 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1227 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1228
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1229 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1230 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1231
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1232 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1233 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1234
01a44a77 1235- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1236
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1237- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1238 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1239 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1240 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1241 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1242 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1243
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1244- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1245 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1246 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1247 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1248 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1249 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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1251- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1252 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1253 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1254
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1255- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1256 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1257 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1258 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1259
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1260- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1261 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1262
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1263- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1264 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1265 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1266
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1267- Minor code fixes
1268 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1269 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1270 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1271 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1272 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1273 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1274 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1275 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1276 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1277 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1278 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1279 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1280
01a44a77 1281- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1282
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1283- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1284 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1285
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1286- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1287 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1288
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1289- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1290 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1291
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1292- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1293 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1294 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1295
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1296- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1297 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1298
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1299- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1300 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1301 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1302
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1303- Fixes to lease input and output.
1304 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1305 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1306 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1307 characters.
1308 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1309 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1310
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1311- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1312 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1313 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1314 at Red Hat.
1315 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1316 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1317 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1318 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1319
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1320- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1321 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1322 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1323 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1324
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1325! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1326 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1327 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1328 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1330- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1331 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1332 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1333
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1334- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1335 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1336 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1337 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1338 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1339
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1340- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1341 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1342 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1343 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1344 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1345
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1346! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1347 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1348 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1349 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1350 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1351 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
bc7f8b8e 1352
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1353- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1354 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1355 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1356
adb95d23 1357- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1358 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1359 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1360
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1361- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1362 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1363 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1364
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1365- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1366 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1367 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1368 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1369 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1370
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1371- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1372 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1373 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1374 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1375
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1376! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1377 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1378 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1379 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1380 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1381 and reset its timeout value.
1382 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1384- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1385 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1386 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1387 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1390 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1391 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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1393- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1394 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1395 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1396 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
d424157d 1397
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1398- Some fixes for LDAP
1399 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1400 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1401 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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1403- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1404 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1406! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1407 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1408 interfaces with the OS.
1409 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1410 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1412- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1413 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1415- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1416 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1417 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1418 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1419 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1420 in v6 mode at configure time.
1421 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1423- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1424 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1425 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1426 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1428- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1429 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1430 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1431 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1432 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1434- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1435 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1436 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1437 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1438 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1440- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1441 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1442 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1443 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1444 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1446- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1447 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1448 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1450- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1451 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1452 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1453 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1454 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1456- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1457 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1458 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1459
1460- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1461 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1462 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1464- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1465 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1466 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1467 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1468 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1469 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1470
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1471- Documentation fixes
1472 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1473 responses to the all-ones address.
1474 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1475 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1476
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1477- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1478 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1479 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1480 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1481
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1482- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1483 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1484
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1485- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1486 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1487 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1488
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1489- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1490 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1491 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1492 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1493 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1494 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1495 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1496 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1497 enable this except for testing purposes.
1498 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1499 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1500
c616de4f 1501- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1502 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1503
1504- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1505
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1506- Client Script fixes
1507 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1508 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1509 the domain search address is link local.
1510 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1511 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1512 being changed.
1513
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1514- Documentation cleanup
1515 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1516
9a111ee8 1517- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1518 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1519
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1520- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1521 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1522 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1523 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1524
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1525- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1526 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1527 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1528
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1529- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1530 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1531
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1532- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1533 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1534 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1535 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1536 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1537 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1538
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1539- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1540 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1541 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1542 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1543 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1544 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1545 in site.h then server will be terminated
1546 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1547
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1548! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1549 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1550 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1551 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1552 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1553 CVE-2011-2748
1554 CVE-2011-2749
1555
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1556- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1557 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1558 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1559 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1560
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1561- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1562 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1563
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1564- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1565 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1566
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1567- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1568 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1569
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1570! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1571 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1572 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1573 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1574 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1575 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1576
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1577! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1578 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1579 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1580 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1581 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1582 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1583 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1584 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1585 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1586 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1587 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1588 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1589
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1590- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1591 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1592 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1593 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1594
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1595- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1596 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1597 from the DNS client code.
1598 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1599
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1600- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1601 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1602
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1603- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1604 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1605 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1606 some issues we found in the socket code.
1607 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1608
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1609- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1610 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1611 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1612 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1613
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1614- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1615 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1616
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1617- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1618 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1619 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1620 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1621 weren't removed from the DNS.
1622 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1623
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1624- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1625 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1626 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1627 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1628
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1629- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1630 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1631 dynamic bootp clients.
1632 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1633
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1634- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1635 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1636 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1637 handing it out.
1638 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1639 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1640 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1641 for different IAs.
1642 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1643 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1644
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1645- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1646 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1647 an int as a boolean).
1648 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1649
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1650- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1651 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1652 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1653 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1654 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1655 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1656 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1657 may be removed in the future.
1658 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1659 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1660
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1661- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1662 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1663 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1664 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1665
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1666- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1667 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1668 report and the first version of the patch.
1669 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1670
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1671- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1672 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1673 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1674 for reporting this issue.
1675 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1676
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1677- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1678 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1679 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1680 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1681 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1682 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1683 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1684 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1685 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1686 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1687
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1688! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1689 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1690 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1691 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1692 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1693 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1694 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1695 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1696 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1697 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1698 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1699 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1700
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1701! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1702 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1703 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1704 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1705 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1706 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1707
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1708! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1709 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1710 this issue.
1711 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1712 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1713
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1714- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1715 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1716 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1717 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1718 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1719 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1720
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1721! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1722 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1723 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1724 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1725 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1726 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 1727
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1728- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1729 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1730
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1731- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1732 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1733 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1734 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1735 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1736 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1737
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1738- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1739 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1740 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1741 freed in other cases.
1742 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1743
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1744- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1745 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1746 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1747 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1748 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1749 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1750 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1751 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1752
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1753- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1754 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1755 and patches.
1756 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1757
9a111ee8 1758- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1759 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1760
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1761- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1762 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1763 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1764
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1765- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1766 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1767 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1768 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1769 variables.
1770 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1771
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1772- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1773 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1774 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1775 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1776 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1777 enabling it.
1778 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1779
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1780- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1781 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1782
adb95d23 1783- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1784 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1785 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1786 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1787 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1788
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1789- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1790 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1791 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1792 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1793 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1794
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1795- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1796 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1797
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1798- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1799 and comment out a currently unused test.
1800 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1801
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1802- Address static analysis warnings.
1803 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1804
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1805- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1806 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1807
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1808- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1809 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1810
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1811- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1812 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1813
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1814- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1815 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1816 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1817
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1818- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1819 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1820 for the patch.
1821 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1822
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1823- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1824 objects.
1825 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1826
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1827- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1828 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1829 to work more consistently.
1830 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1831
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1832- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1833 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1834 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1835
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1836- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1837 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1838
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1839- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1840 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1841 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1842 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1843 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1844
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1845- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1846 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1847
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1848- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1849 to the clients.
1850 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1851
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1852- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1853 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1854
7aa153b8 1855
adbef119
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1856 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1857
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1858- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1859 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1860 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1861
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1862- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1863 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1864 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1865
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1866- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1867 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1868
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1869- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1870
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1871- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1872 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1873 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1874 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1875 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1876 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1877
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1878- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1879 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1880 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1881 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1882 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1883 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1884 FQDN options by default).
1885
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1886- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1887 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1888 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1889 determined lease time) are omitted.
1890
adb95d23 1891- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1892 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1893 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1894
1895- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1896 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1897 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1898
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1899 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1900
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1901- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1902
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1903- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1904
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1905- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1906 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1907 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1908 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1909 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1910
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1911- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1912
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1913- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1914 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1915 had been deleted from configuration.
1916
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1917- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1918 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1919 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1920 were being ignored.
1921
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1922- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1923
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1924- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1925 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1926 Nordahl.
1927
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1928- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1929 dhcpv6 disabled.
1930
8d7dca58 1931- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1932 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1933
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1934- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1935 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1936
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1937- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1938 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1939 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1940
1941- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1942 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1943 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1944 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1945 fewer system calls.
1946
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1947- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1948 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1949 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1950 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1951 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1952 Christof Chen.
1953
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1954- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1955 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1956 and in normal state.
1957
1958- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1959 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1960
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1961- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1962
1963- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1964 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1965 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1966
dedde1ba
DH
1967- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1968 rather than restarting the listener.
1969
a57df74a
DH
1970- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1971 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1972
1973- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1974 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1975 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1976
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1977- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1978 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1979 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1980 timeouts).
1981
792156a9
DH
1982- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1983 in failover state records.
1984
8a4e543b
DH
1985! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1986 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1987 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1988 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1989
a1308b64
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1990- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1991 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1992
1b12d999
DH
1993- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1994 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1995 last option definition is used.
1996
d453265f
PS
1997- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1998 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1999 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
2000
3e29af1e
PS
2001- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
2002 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
2003
b8d45c67
DH
2004- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
2005 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
2006 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
2007 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
2008 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
2009 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
2010
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DH
2011- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
2012 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
2013 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
2014 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
2015
e4e3a2ab
DH
2016! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
2017 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 2018
875e99dc
SR
2019- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
2020 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
2021
2267da84
DH
2022- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
2023 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
2024 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
2025 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
2026 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 2027 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
2028 configuration.
2029
cd3f0b9b
DH
2030- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
2031 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
2032
0493fdca
SR
2033- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
2034 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
2035 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
2036 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
2037
95bba8b6
SR
2038- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
2039 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
2040 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 2041 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 2042
adbef119 2043 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
2044
2045- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
2046 be recognized.
61d75ea2 2047
a4ffedd1
DH
2048 Changes since 4.1.0a2
2049
2050- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
2051 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
2052 "abandoned".
2053
6ff3b26d
FD
2054- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
2055
1387545f
DH
2056- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
2057 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
2058
2059- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
2060 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
2061
2062- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 2063 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 2064
399d3dbe
DH
2065- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2066
fbcee149
DH
2067- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2068 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2069 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2070 in future releases.
2071
f1672d89
DH
2072- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2073 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2074
236d3a99
DH
2075- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2076 'dhclient -6' support.
2077
efa5e6b9
DH
2078- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2079 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2080 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2081 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2082
7d6180be 2083 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
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2084
2085- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2086
51e7687f
EH
2087- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2088
20210a7b
EH
2089- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2090 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2091 only the latter. Fixed.
2092
535485df
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2093- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2094
8fbb55ff
DH
2095- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2096 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2097
61220a00
EH
2098- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2099
c40e954c
EH
2100- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2101
63971a83
DH
2102- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2103 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2104 --enable-early-chroot.
2105
66cebfcb
DH
2106- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2107 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2108
f8cbf390
DH
2109- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2110 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2111 parameter.
2112
8269561d
DH
2113- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2114 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2115
b445a411
DH
2116- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2117 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2118
bd72740e
FD
2119- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2120
9322442f
FD
2121- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2122
8dea7ba7
FD
2123- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2124
4619c0a2
DH
2125- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2126
9ac4206a
DH
2127- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2128 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2129 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2130
420d8b3f
FD
2131- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2132 support.
2133
40ec5f38
DH
2134- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2135 repaired.
2136
80097764
FD
2137- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2138
ffbaa880
FD
2139- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2140
7de20a95
EH
2141- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2142 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2143
d352732e
EH
2144- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2145 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2146
7d6180be
DH
2147- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2148 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2149
2150- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2151 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2152 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2153 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2154 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2155 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2156 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2157 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2158 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2159 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2160 shared-network.
2161
2162- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2163 configured option values.
2164
2165- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2166 support class statements.
2167
adb95d23 2168- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2169 selection were repaired.
2170
ecddae64
DH
2171- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2172 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2173 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2174 by the OS.
2175
2176- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2177 address.
2178
2179- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2180 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2181
d104d45b
DH
2182- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2183
2184- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2185
2186- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2187 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2188
01a54c17 2189 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2190
6d7f9584
FD
2191- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2192
4cafb815 2193- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2194 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2195
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EH
2196- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2197 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2198 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2199
9a111ee8 2200- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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2201 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2202
aabfa4de
FD
2203- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2204
0674055a
FD
2205- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2206 reserved IDs avoided).
2207
b51c785f
FD
2208- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2209
900405e9
FD
2210- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2211 carries a rapid-commit option.
2212
96b620e5
FD
2213- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2214 an empty active lease.
2215
be62cf06
FD
2216- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2217
01a54c17
EH
2218- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2219 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2220 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2221 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2222
adb95d23 2223- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2224
2225- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2226 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2227 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2228 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2229 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2230 Christof Chen.
2231
2232 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2233
2234- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2235
2236- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2237 config file but -6 is not specified.
2238
2239- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2240
2241- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2242 be more helpful.
2243
2244- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2245 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2246 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2247
2248- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2249 was repaired.
2250
2251- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2252 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2253 been repaired.
2254
2255- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2256 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2257 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2258
49f61135
DH
2259- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2260 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2261
41d4652f
DH
2262- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2263 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2264 IPv4 address.
2265
2c9bf1f4
DH
2266- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2267 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2268 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2269 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2270 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2271
2272- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2273 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2274 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2275
cff9b78f
SK
2276- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2277
c4d29896
SK
2278- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2279
57fcb8d9
SK
2280- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2281 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2282 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2283 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
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2284 unnecessary logging.
2285
219a65eb
DH
2286- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2287 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2288
ffdf3c8c
DH
2289- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2290 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2291 is incompatible is printed.
2292
2293- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2294 a previously undefined option code.
2295
00a002fc
MA
2296- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2297 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2298
9a111ee8 2299- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2300 than the year 2000.
2301
e2cfde76
FD
2302- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2303
cabdb9b1
FD
2304- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2305
5d89d60f
FD
2306- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2307
61d75ea2
DH
2308 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2309
2310- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2311 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2312 configuration.
76db44f9 2313
e32529a5
EH
2314- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2315 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2316
9a111ee8 2317- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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2318 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2319 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2320
9a111ee8
TM
2321- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2322 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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2323 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2324 a requested address.
2325
703873ab
DH
2326- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2327 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2328 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2329 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2330
2331- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2332 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2333 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2334 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2335
b024480e
DH
2336- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2337 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2338 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2339
c0216cb7
DH
2340- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2341 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2342
1ac57173
FD
2343- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2344
83835822
DH
2345- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2346 codes through some conditions.
2347
c54db708
FD
2348- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2349 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2350
e5d83524
DH
2351- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2352 seemingly random values.
2353
821f2dda
DH
2354- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2355
f8b3c6f4
DH
2356- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2357 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2358 one ever has.
2359
9a111ee8
TM
2360- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2361 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
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2362 to a REQUEST.
2363
9f1d5a2f
DH
2364- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2365 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2366 level.
2367
e4a6be15
DH
2368 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2369
65cf86d7
EH
2370- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2371
b1d3778c
DH
2372- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2373 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2374 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2375 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2376 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2377
bead14ea
DH
2378- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2379 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2380 new address.
2381
f765ec36
SK
2382 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2383
75135a3f 2384- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2385 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
75135a3f
EH
2386 simultaneously on a single interface.
2387
5c2d55c7
EH
2388- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2389 of service under unusual server configurations
2390
2391- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2392
9a111ee8 2393- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2394 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2395
edb1283e
DH
2396- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2397 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2398 on every pool rebalance run.
2399
c71c6399
DH
2400- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2401 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2402
5279b8f3
DH
2403- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2404 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2405
ab3a540f 2406 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2407
9a111ee8 2408- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2409 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2410
fa9b593d
DH
2411- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2412 point out the problem.
2413
9a111ee8 2414- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1b5053b5
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2415 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2416 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2417
c886c298
SK
2418- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2419 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2420
eaf7eb17
DH
2421- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2422 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2423 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2424
109e00db
DH
2425- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2426
9a111ee8 2427- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
3ad9d48f
SK
2428 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2429
8eab95f2
DH
2430- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2431 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2432 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2433 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2434
07b9a351
DH
2435- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2436
7285af30
DH
2437- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2438 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2439 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2440 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2441 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2442
2394b26b
DH
2443- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2444
ab3a540f
SK
2445 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2446
97050349
SK
2447- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2448 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2449
763cba6b 2450- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2451
237f8d3a 2452- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2453 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
237f8d3a
SK
2454 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2455
28868515
SK
2456- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2457
d00d373a
SK
2458- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2459 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2460
8dfd5744
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2461- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2462 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2463 loaded from persistent storage.
2464
45d545f0 2465- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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2466 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2467 necessary.
2468
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2469- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2470 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2471 rapid-commit option.
2472
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2473- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2474 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2475
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2476 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2477
71765b58
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2478- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2479 and fix.
2480
847e7000
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2481- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2482
bda33169
SK
2483- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2484
9b21e73e
SK
2485- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2486 for when loading configuration.
2487
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2488- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2489 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2490 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2491
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2492- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2493 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2494 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2495 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2496
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2497- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2498
f796f70a
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2499- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2500 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2501
c11f349d
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2502- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2503
af5fa176
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2504- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2505
2506- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2507 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2508
a546f2a7
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2509- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2510 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2511
b55d0d5f
EH
2512- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2513
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2514- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2515 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2516
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2517 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2518
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2519- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2520
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2521- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2522 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2523
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2524- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2525
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2526- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2527 initialized.
2528
2529- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2530
2531- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2532 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2533
2534- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2535
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2536- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2537
2538- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2539 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2540
2541- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2542
8ea19a71 2543- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2544 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
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2545
2546- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2547 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2548
2cf8d0bd
DH
2549- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2550
2551- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2552
fe5b0fdd
DH
2553- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2554
98bd7ca0
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2555 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2556
2557- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2558 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2559 no support currently for both.
2560
2561- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2562 IAADDR option.
2563
2564- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2565 options.
2566
2567- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2568
2569- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2570 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2571
2572- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2573 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2574 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2575
2576- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2577 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2578
2579- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2580 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2581 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2582 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2583 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2584 differently, they both use the same code here).
2585
2586- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2587 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2588 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2589
2590- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2591
2592- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2593 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2594 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2595 it should not intercept.
2596
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2597 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2598
2599- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2600 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2601 between primary and secondary.
2602
2603- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2604 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2605 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2606
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2607- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2608
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2609- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2610 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2611 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2612 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2613 or REQUEST messages.
2614
2615- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2616 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2617
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2618- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2619
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DH
2620 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2621
adb95d23 2622- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
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2623 failover protected subnets was removed.
2624
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2625 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2626
2627- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2628 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2629 odd number of leases).
2630
2631- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2632 rebalance run, and one after.
2633
2634- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2635 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2636 processing these messages.
2637
fe5b0fdd 2638 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2639
74dc3e0b
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2640- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2641 objects.
2642
1ba87b37
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2643- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2644 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2645 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2646 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2647 at Allianz.
2648
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EH
2649- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2650 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2651
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2652- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2653 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2654
27837f95
DH
2655- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2656 caused the server to abort.
2657
4d2eaafb
DH
2658- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2659 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2660 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2661
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2662- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2663 by empty spaces would not get included.
2664
d6614ea2
DH
2665- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2666 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2667
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DH
2668- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2669 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2670
fc3b9c90
DH
2671- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2672 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2673
c9feb859
DH
2674- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2675 on the parameter request list.
2676
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2677 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2678
2679- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2680
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DH
2681 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2682
2683- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2684 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2685
85edef5c
DH
2686- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2687 domain-search option syntax.
2688
bdddcb7d
DH
2689 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2690
2691- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2692 hash table was repaired.
2693
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DH
2694- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2695 entering normal state.
2696
2697- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2698 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
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2699 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2700
2701- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2702 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2703
6708d944
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2704- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2705 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2706 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2707 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2708
45d545f0 2709- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
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2710 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2711 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2712 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2713 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2714 to their needs.
2715
2716- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2717 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2718 run will attempt balance.
2719
a7ee93fe
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2720- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2721
98311e4b
DH
2722 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2723
2724- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2725 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2726 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2727 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2728
98bd7ca0 2729- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2730 was introduced.
98311e4b
DH
2731
2732- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2733 via OMAPI.
2734
a55ccdd0
DH
2735- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2736 the protocol draft.
2737
98311e4b
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2738- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2739 one does not already exist on the system.
2740
b43c87ad 2741- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2742
0b17f049
DH
2743- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2744 matches RFC 3074.
2745
2727c1cf
DH
2746- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2747 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2748 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2749
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DH
2750- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2751 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2752 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2753
ee912528
DH
2754- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2755 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2756 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2757 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2758
2759- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2760 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2761 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2762 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2763
f7fdb216 2764- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2765 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
f7fdb216
DH
2766 DHCPv6 support.
2767
5e864416
DH
2768- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2769 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2770 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2771
b500bd4c
DH
2772- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2773 have been incorporated.
2774
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DH
2775- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2776 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2777 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2778 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2779 that belong to the peer in need.
2780
2781- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2782 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2783
2784- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2785 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2786 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2787
334bf491
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2788- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2789 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2790
3004bebf
DH
2791- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2792 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2793 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2794 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2795 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2796
567e8561
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2797- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2798 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2799 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2800 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2801
a396d25f
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2802- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2803 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2804 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2805 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2806 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2807 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2808 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2809 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2810 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2811
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DH
2812- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2813 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2814
41e45067 2815- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
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2816 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2817 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2818 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2819
41e45067
DH
2820- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2821 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2822 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2823 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2824
b543fea9
DH
2825- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2826 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2827 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2828 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2829 via Robin Breathe.
2830
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DH
2831- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2832 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2833 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2834 from Christof Chen.
2835
96bbe8c5
SK
2836- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2837 formally supported.
2838
b8221d95
DH
2839 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2840
2841- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2842 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2843
c1e6c832
DH
2844 Changes since 3.0.5
2845
f546c28b
DH
2846- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2847 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2848 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2849 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
2850
2851- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2852
c1e6c832
DH
2853- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2854 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
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2855 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2856 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2857
75ab3070
DH
2858- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2859
d69fb6a8 2860- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2861 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2862
02428754
DH
2863- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2864 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2865 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2866 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2867 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2868 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2869 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
DH
2870 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2871
2872- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2873 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2874 'file' field.
02428754 2875
ecde99a3
DH
2876- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2877 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2878
67674ffb
DH
2879- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2880 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2881 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2882
830ebc4c
DH
2883- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2884 from Chris Wagner.
2885
c759db75
DH
2886- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2887 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2888 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2889
9aa3f3a5
DH
2890- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2891 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2892 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2893 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2894 was set.
2895
3d0c598a
DH
2896- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2897 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2898
d5b6835f
DH
2899- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2900 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2901 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2902 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2903 active ones.
2904
02428754 2905 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2906
901306d5 2907- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
0a73b7b6
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2908 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2909 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2910 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2911 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2912
87a08ccc
DH
2913- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2914 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2915
6da113fb
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2916 Changes since 3.0.4
2917
2918- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2919 scopes are actually global has been added.
2920
2921- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2922 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2923 known to be damaging.
2924
2925- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2926 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2927 balancing).
2928
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2929- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2930 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2931 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2932
1b2ab55f
DH
2933- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2934 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2935 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2936
e48891e8
DH
2937- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2938 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2939 more clear now.
2940
6cbc6629
DH
2941- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2942 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2943 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2944 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2945 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2946 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2947
c5fec5fa
DH
2948- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2949 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2950
33e1cb2b
DH
2951- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2952 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2953 made possible.
2954
2bddf829
DH
2955- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2956 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2957 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2958
87578987
DH
2959- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2960 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2961
e77c575f
DH
2962- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2963 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2964 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2965
2178df03
DH
2966- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2967 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2968 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2969 value with the later configured value).
2970
d5341d9b
SK
2971- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2972 have been named and documented.
2973
2974- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2975 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2976 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2977 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2978 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2979 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2980 write new output.
2981
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2982 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2983
2984- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2985 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2986
2987 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2988
2989- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2990 mailing list.
2991
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2992 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2993
45d545f0 2994- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2995 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2996
2997- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2998 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2999
3000- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
3001 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
3002 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
3003 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
3004
3005- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
3006 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
3007 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
3008 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
3009 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
3010 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
3011 transition (properly).
3012
3013- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
3014
3015 Changes since 3.0.4b1
3016
3017- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
3018 STDIN after reading one line.
3019
3020- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
3021 descriptor it opened twice.
3022
3023- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
3024 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
3025 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
3026
3027 Changes since 3.0.3
3028
3029- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
3030 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
3031 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
3032
3033- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
3034 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
3035 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
3036
3037- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
3038 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 3039 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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3040 leases to allocate.
3041
3042- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 3043 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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3044 than the entire block of them.
3045
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3046! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
3047 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
3048 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
3049 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
3050 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
3051 to a patch from infamous42md.
3052
3053! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
3054 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
3055 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
3056 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
3057 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
3058 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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3059
3060- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
3061 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
3062 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
3063
3064- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3065 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3066
3067- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3068 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3069 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3070 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3071 transitional states.
3072
3073- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3074 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3075 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3076
3077- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3078 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3079 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3080
3081- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3082 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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3083
3084- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3085 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3086
3087- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3088 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3089 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3090
3091- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3092 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3093
3094- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3095 repaired.
3096
3097- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3098 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3099 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3100 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3101
3102- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3103 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3104 data.
3105
3106- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3107 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3108 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3109 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3110 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3111
3112- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3113 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3114 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3115 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3116 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3117
3118- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3119 has been repaired.
3120
3121- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3122 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3123 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3124 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3125 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3126
3127- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3128 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3129
45d545f0 3130- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3131 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3132 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3133 move to 3.[01].x.
3134
3135- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3136 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3137
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3138 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3139
3140- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3141 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3142
3143- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3144 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3145 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3146 workaround.
3147
3148 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3149
3150- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3151 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3152
3153 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3154
3155- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3156 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3157 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3158
3159- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3160 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3161 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3162
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3163 Changes since 3.0.2
3164
3165- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3166 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3167 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3168
3169- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3170 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3171 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3172 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3173 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3174
3175- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3176 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3177 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3178
3179- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3180 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3181 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3182
3183- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3184 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3185 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3186 Peter Poeml.
3187
3188- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3189 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3190
3191- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3192 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3193 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3194 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3195 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3196 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3197
3198- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3199 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3200 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3201 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3202
3203- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3204 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3205 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3206 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3207
3208- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3209 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3210
3211- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3212 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3213 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3214
3215- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3216 7 bytes, and failover.
3217
3218- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3219 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3220 at Red Hat.
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3221
3222- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3223 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3224 should work better.
3225
3226- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3227 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3228 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3229
3230- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3231 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3232 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3233
3234 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3235
3236- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3237 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3238
3239 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3240
45d545f0 3241- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3242 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3243 overloading. This was repaired.
3244
3245- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3246 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3247 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3248 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3249 three chunks to fit.
3250
3251- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3252 were repaired.
3253
3254- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3255 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3256 leak).
3257
3258 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3259
3260- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3261 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3262
3263 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3264
3265- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3266
3267 Changes since 3.0.1
3268
3269- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3270 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3271 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3272
3273- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3274 name was not provided by the server.
3275
3276- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3277 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3278
3279- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3280 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3281
3282- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3283 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3284
3285- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3286
3287- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3288
3289- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3290 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3291 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3292 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3293 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3294
3295- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3296 the configuration be globally scoped.
3297
3298- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3299 Farkas.
3300
3301- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3302 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3303
3304- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3305 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3306
3307- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3308 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3309
3310- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3311 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3312 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3313 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3314
3315- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3316 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3317 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3318 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3319
3320- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3321 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3322 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3323
3324- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3325
3326- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3327 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3328 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3329
3330- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3331 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3332 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3333 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3334 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3335
3336- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3337 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3338
3339- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3340 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3341
3342- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3343 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3344 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3345 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3346
3347- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3348 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3349
3350- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3351 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3352 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3353
3354- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3355 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3356 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3357 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3358 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3359 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3360
3361- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3362 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3363 Infoblox.
3364
3365- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3366
3367- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3368 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3369 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3370 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3371 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3372 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3373 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3374
3375- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3376 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3377 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3378
3379- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3380 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3381 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3382
3383- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3384
3385 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3386
3387- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3388 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3389 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3390 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3391 systems either.
3392
3393- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3394
3395- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3396 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3397 is false.
3398
3399- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3400 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3401
3402- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3403
3404 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3405
3406! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3407 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3408 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3409 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3410 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3411 both finding and solving the problem.
3412
3413! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3414 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3415 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3416 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3417 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3418 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3419 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3420 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3421 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3422 published version of ISC DHCP.
3423
3424- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3425
3426- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3427
3428 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3429
3430- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3431 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3432 Richard Hirst.
3433
3434- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3435 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3436 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3437
3438- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3439
3440- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3441 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3442 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3443 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3444
3445- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3446 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3447
3448- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3449 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3450
3451- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3452
3453 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3454
3455- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3456 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3457
3458- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3459 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3460 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3461
3462- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3463 by name was fixed.
3464
45d545f0 3465- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3466 longer result in error.
3467
3468- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3469
3470- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3471 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3472 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3473
3474- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3475 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3476
3477- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3478 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3479 Blapp.
3480
3481- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3482 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3483 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3484 Martin Blapp.
3485
3486- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3487 expiry times in failover configurations.
3488
3489- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3490 Steve G.
3491
3492- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3493 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3494
3495- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3496 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3497 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3498 now "unknown-144".
3499
3500- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3501 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3502
3503 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3504
3505- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3506
3507- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3508 not be bash.
3509
3510- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3511
3512- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3513 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3514 that errored before will now work properly.
3515
3516- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3517 names was repaired.
3518
3519- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3520 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3521 configuration file.
3522
3523- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3524 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3525
3526- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3527 error rather than a null dereference.
3528
3529 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3530
3531- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3532
3533- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3534
3535- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3536 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3537
3538- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3539
3540- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3541
3542- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3543 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3544 self-corrupting lease databases.
3545
3546- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3547
3548- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3549 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3550
3551- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3552
3553- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3554
3555- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3556 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3557 Ling Gou.
3558
3559- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3560 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3561
3562- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3563 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3564 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3565
3566- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3567 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3568
3569 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3570
3571- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3572 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3573
3574- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3575
3576- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3577 a memory leak.
3578
3579- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3580 script.
3581
3582- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3583
3584- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3585
3586- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3587
3588- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3589
3590- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3591
3592- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3593
3594- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3595
3596- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3597
3598- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3599
3600- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3601
3602- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3603
3604- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3605
3606 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3607
3608- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3609 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3610 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3611
3612 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3613
3614- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3615 to be renewed.
3616
3617- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3618 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3619
3620- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3621 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3622
3623- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3624 that two permit lists matched.
3625
3626- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3627 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3628
3629- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3630
3631- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3632 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3633
3634- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3635
3636- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3637
3638- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3639 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3640 going to update its A record.
3641
3642- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3643 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3644 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3645 DNS server.
3646
3647- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3648
3649- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3650
3651- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3652 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3653 NetBSD project).
3654
3655- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3656 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3657
3658- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3659 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3660
3661- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3662
3663- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3664
3665- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3666 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3667 failover protocol standard.
3668
3669- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3670 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3671 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3672
3673- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3674 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3675 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3676 do so.
3677
3678- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3679
3680 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3681
3682- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3683
3684- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3685 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3686
3687- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3688 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3689
3690- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3691 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3692 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3693
3694- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3695 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3696 network, merge the two pools.
3697
3698- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3699 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3700 fix this bug.
3701
3702 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3703
3704- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3705 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3706
3707- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3708 the same case.
3709
3710- Additional documentation.
3711
3712- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3713 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3714
3715 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3716
3717- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3718- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3719
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3721
3722- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3723 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3724 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3725 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3726 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3727
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3729
3730- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3731 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3732 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3733 wasn't the one that removed it.
3734
3735- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3736 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3737 were not configured.
3738
3739- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3740
3741- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3742 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3743 routing information.
3744
3745- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3746 request being sent.
3747
3748- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3749 done.
3750
3751- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3752 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3753 were pending.
3754
3755- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3756 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3757 problems with failover.
3758
3759- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3760 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3761 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3762
adbef119 3763 Changes since 3.0
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3764
3765- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3766 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3767
3768- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3769 no object is open, it dumps core.
3770
3771- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3772
3773- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3774
3775- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3776
3777- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3778 a host object attribute with a null value.
3779
3780 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3781
3782- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3783
3784- Fix an obscure core dump.
3785
3786- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3787 when crucial information is left out.
3788
3789- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3790
3791- Documentation updates.
3792
3793 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3794
3795- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3796
3797- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3798 structure wasn't zeroed.
3799
3800- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3801 incorrectly.
3802
3803- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3804 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3805 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3806 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3807 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3808 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3809 restarted.
3810
3811 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3812
3813- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3814 in failover-enabled pools.
3815
3816- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3817 declarations).
3818
3819- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3820 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3821
3822- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3823 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3824
3825- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3826
3827- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3828 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3829
3830- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3831
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3832 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
3833
3834- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3835
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3836 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3837
3838- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3839
3840- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3841
3842- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3843
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3844 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3845
3846- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3847 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3848 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3849
3850- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3851 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3852 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3853 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3854 string.
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3855
3856- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3857
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3858 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3859
3860- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3861 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3862
3863- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3864 malformed packets.
3865
3866- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3867
3868- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3869 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3870 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3871
3872- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3873
3874- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3875
3876- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3877
3878- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3879 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3880
3881- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3882 tcp connections from being played back.
3883
3884- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3885 on exit.
3886
3887- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3888
3889- Add some configurability to the build system.
3890
3891- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3892
3893- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3894 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3895 hadn't been noticed until now.
3896
3897 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3898
3899- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3900 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3901
3902- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3903 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3904 conformant, but also didn't work).
3905
3906- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3907 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3908
3909- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3910 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3911
3912- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3913 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3914
3915- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3916 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3917
3918- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3919 doing failover.
3920
3921- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3922 running on alpha processors.
3923
3924- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3925 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3926
3927- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3928
3929- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3930
3931- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3932 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3933
3934- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3935
3936- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3937 actually named (key names are domain names).
3938
3939- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3940
3941- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3942 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3943
3944- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3945 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3946
3947- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3948 statements.
3949
3950- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3951 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3952
3953- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3954 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3955 operating.
3956
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3957 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3958
3959- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3960 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3961 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3962 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3963
3964- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3965 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3966
3967- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3968
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3969 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3970
3971- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3972 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3973
3974- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3975 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3976 to the chain.
3977
3978- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3979
3980- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3981
3982- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3983
98311e4b 3984- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3985 attribute values in omshell.
3986
98311e4b 3987- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3988
3989- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3990
3991 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3992
3993- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3994 DHCPDECLINE.
3995
3996- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3997
3998- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3999 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
4000 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
4001
4002- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
4003
4004- Documentation fixes.
4005
4006- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
4007 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
4008
4009- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
4010 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
4011
4012- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
4013
4014- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
4015
4016- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
4017 case-insensitive.
4018
4019- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
4020
98311e4b 4021- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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4022 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
4023 consistently.
4024
4025- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
4026 systems with the probe not working correctly.
4027
4028- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
4029
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4030 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
4031
4032- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
4033 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
4034 result of duplicate leases.
4035
4036- Document OMAPI server objects.
4037
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4038 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
4039
4040- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
4041 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
4042
4043- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
4044 core dumps.
4045
4046- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
4047 Friedrich.
4048
4049- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
4050
4051 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
4052
4053- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
4054 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 4055 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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4056 billing class code.
4057
4058- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
4059 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
4060
4061- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
4062 trace file.
4063
79ea3de8 4064 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 4065
79ea3de8
TL
4066- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4067 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4068 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4069 e.g., Digital Unix.
4070
4071- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4072 when no error had occurred.
4073
4074- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4075 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4076 non-communicating state.
4077
4078- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4079
4080- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4081 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4082 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4083
4084- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4085 when the client lease expired.
4086
4087- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4088 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4089 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4090 in testing.
4091
4092- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4093 the command line, it would fail.
4094
4095- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4096 user impact).
4097
4098- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4099
4100- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4101 they're executable.
4102
4103 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4104
4105- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4106 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4107 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4108 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4109
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4110- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4111 Transmeta.
4112
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4113- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4114 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4115 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4116 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4117
4118- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4119 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4120
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4121 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4122
4123- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4124 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4125
4126- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4127
4128- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4129
4130- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4131
4132- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4133
4134- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4135
4136- Update some parts of the README file.
4137
4138- Support GCC on SCO.
4139
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4141
4142- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4143 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4144
4145- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4146 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4147 unbill the old class.
4148
4149- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4150 process the state transition immediately.
4151
4152- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4153 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4154
4155- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4156
4157- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4158
4159- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4160
4161- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4162
4163- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4164 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4165 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4166
4167- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4168 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4169
4170- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4171 lease file.
4172
4173- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4174
4175- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4176
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4178
4179- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4180 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4181
4182- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4183
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4185
4186- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4187
adbef119 4188 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4189
4190- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4191
4192- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4193 pl19.
4194
4195- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4196 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4197 past the regression test.
4198
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4200
4201- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4202 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4203
4204- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4205 DHCPREQUEST.
4206
4207- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4208
4209- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4210
4211- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4212
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4215- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4216 (Damien Neil)
4217
4218- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4219 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4220
4221- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4222 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4223 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4224
4225- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4226 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4227 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4228 message.
4229
4230- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4231 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4232 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4233
98311e4b 4234- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4235 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4236 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4237 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4238 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4239 this way will work.
4240
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4241- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4242
4243- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4244 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4245 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4246 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4247
4248 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4249
4250 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4251
4252- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4253 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4254 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4255
4256- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4257 Hermann Lauer.
4258
4259- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4260 messages.
4261
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4262- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4263 it contained quoted strings.
4264
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4265 ** there was no pl17 **
4266
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4269- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4270 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4271 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4272 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4273 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4274 tracking down memory leaks.
4275
4276- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4277 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4278 Solaris.
4279
4280- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4281 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4282 corruption and core dumps.
4283
4284- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4285 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4286
4287- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4288
4289- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4290 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4291
4292- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4293 name and version to standard output.
4294
4295- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4296
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4297- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4298 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4299
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4300- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4301
4302- Lots of documentation updates.
4303
4304- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4305 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4306
4307- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4308
4309- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4310 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4311
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4313
4314- Some documentation tweaks.
4315
4316- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4317
4318- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4319
4320- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4321 agent options into them.
4322
4323- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4324
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4325- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4326 options.
4327
adbef119 4328 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4329
4330- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4331 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4332 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4333 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4334 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4335
4336- Fix up documentation.
4337
4338- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4339 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4340
4341- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4342
4343- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4344
4345- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4346 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4347 practical use otherwise.
4348
4349- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4350 for debugging.
4351
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4353
4354- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4355 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4356 dump on some systems.
4357
4358- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4359 option.
4360
4361- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4362 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4363
4364- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4365 that were not printing enough information.
4366
4367- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4368 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4369
4370- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4371 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4372 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4373 were answering.
4374
4375- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4376 the transition.
9a111ee8 4377
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4380
4381- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4382
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4383 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4384
4385- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4386 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4387 representation from working correctly.
4388
4389- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4390 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4391 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4392 could spin.
4393
4394- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4395 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4396
4397- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4398 interface name on the command line.
4399
4400- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4401 client state.
4402
4403- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4404 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4405 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4406 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4407 added by Ted Lemon.
4408
4409- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4410 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4411
4412- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4413 end option.
4414
4415- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4416 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4417 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4418
4419- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4420 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4421 face of a null hardware address on input.
4422
4423- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4424 specified unqualified.
4425
4426- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4427 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4428
4429- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4430 RFC.
4431
4432- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4433
4434- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4435
4436- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4437 it works.
4438
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4439 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4440
4441- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4442 to CVS.
4443
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4444 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4445
4446- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4447
4448- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4449 in patchlevel 9.
4450
4451- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4452 options at renewal time.
4453
4454- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4455 configuration language.
4456
4457- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4458
4459- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4460 done when no client hostname was received.
4461
4462- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4463
4464- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4465 the DHCP option space.
4466
4467- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4468
4469- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4470 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4471
4472- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4473 silently dropped.
4474
4475- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4476 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4477
4478- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4479 will be correctly updated.
4480
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4481 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4482
4483- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4484 bounds-checking.
4485
4486 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4487
4488- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4489
3922772a 4490 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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4492- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4493 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4494 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4495
4496- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4497 option.
4498
4499- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4500 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4501 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4502 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4503 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4504 meaningfully.
4505
4506- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4507 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4508 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4509
4510- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4511 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4512 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4513 this one down!
4514
4515- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4516 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4517 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4518 down and fixing this problem.
4519
4520 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4521
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4522- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4523 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4524
4525- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4526 environment.
4527
4528- Fix suffix operator.
4529
4530- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4531
4532- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4533 connection code.
4534
4535- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4536
4537- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4538
4539- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4540 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4541
4542- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4543
4544- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4545
4546- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4547 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4548
4549- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4550 spawn with.
4551
4552- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4553 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4554
4555- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4556 for OMAPI.
4557
4558- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4559 can install in host declarations.
4560
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4561 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4562
4563- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4564 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4565 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4566 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4567 comments)!
4568
4569- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4570
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4571- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4572 request for help on this with patches!
4573
4574- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4575 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4576 lost, they never reconnect.
4577
4578- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4579 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4580
4581- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4582 dump.
4583
4584- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4585 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4586 catching this one.
4587
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4588 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4589
4590- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4591 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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4592 lease renewal time.
4593
4594- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4595 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4596 declared without a key.
4597
4598- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4599
4600- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4601 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4602
4603- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4604 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4605 determine the maximum size of the response.
4606
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4607 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4608
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4609- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4610 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4611
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4612- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4613 RENEWING client.
4614
4615- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4616
4617- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4618 using memcmp().
4619
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4620 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4621
4622- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4623 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4624 pointing this out.
4625
4626- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4627 exit.
4628
4629- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4630
4631- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4632 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.