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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
5c03ed37 2 Version 4.4.0-dev
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
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
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]
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63- Pass configure arguments which begin with an upper case letter, e.g.
64 CFLAGS, to the embedded bind configure, so it is no longer required
65 to use environment variables to get the same effect.
66 [ISC-Bugs #35143]
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68- Added --enable-kqueue, --enable-epoll, --enable-devpoll and a more
69 general --with-bind-extra-config to pass extra options to the
70 embedded bind configure. Note we had mixed experiences with this
54ee18cf 71 so it is at the user risk, i.e., they are NOT SUPPORTED yet.
f285576d 72 [ISC-Bugs #20890]
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74- Changed the way the embedded bind Makefile is updated by configure.
75 The only user visible side effect is that --with-libbind now requires
76 either "no" or an (absolute) path, i.e. "yes" is no longer valid.
77 [ISC-Bugs #43227]
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79- Added the support for git repositories in the util/bind.sh script.
80 When you build ISC DHCP from a git repo, i.e., without a "bind"
81 directory populated as in the release distribution file, you may now
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82 create the bind directory, change to it and clone the private
83 (repo.isc.org/proj/git/prod/bind9.git) or the public
290a7613 84 (https://source.isc.org/git/bind9.git) git repository into
d163c8f7 85 bind/bind9 and then invoke the util/bind.sh script as usual.
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86 Note this option is incompatible with "make dist" (and make "distcheck")
87 because no bind/bind.tar.gz nor bind/version.tmp files are available.
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88 [ISC-Bugs #43236]
89
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90- Use the embedded bind libraries where they are built (vs where they
91 are installed).
92 [ISC-Bugs #39319]
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94- Use last version (9.11) of plain embedded bind libraries in place of
95 older (9.9) version of export bind libraries.
96 [ISC-Bugs #43215]
97
5a2e8c37 98- Using "make distcheck" now works with external bind libraries (aka
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99 configure --with-libbind).
100 [ISC-Bugs #43285]
101
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102- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
103 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
104 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
105 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
106 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
107 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
108 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
109 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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111- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
112 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
113 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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114 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
115 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
116 arguments.
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117 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
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119- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
120 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
121 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
122 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
123 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
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125- IPv6 operation now supports an EUI-64 based address allocation which will
126 calculate addresses for clients with EUI-64 DUIDs based on those DUIDs when
127 enabled by setting use-eui-64 true. The parameter may defined down to the
128 pool scope. Note this feature must be compiled in by defining EUI_64 in
129 includes/site.h. This flag is undefined by default.
130 [ISC-Bugs #43927]
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132- Added new compile time option --with-srv-conf-file which specifies a
133 default location of the server configuration file.
134 [ISC-Bugs #44765]
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136- Added --dad-wait-time parameter to dhclient. It specifies the maximum time,
137 in seconds, that the client process should wait for the duplicate address
138 detection to complete before initiating DHCP requests. This value is
139 propagated to the dhclient script and the script is responsible for waiting
140 the specified amount of time or until DAD has completed. If the script does
141 not support it, specifying this parameter has no effect. The default value
142 is 0 which specifies that the script should not wait for DAD. With this
143 change the following scripts have been modified to support the new parameter:
144 freebsd, linux, macos, netbsd, openbsd.
145 [ISC-Bugs #36169]
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251bb4b9 147- Modified DDNS support initialization such that DNS related ports will only be
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148 opened by the server (dhcpd) at startup if ddns-update-style is not "none";
149 by dhclient only if and when the it first attempts an update; and never by
150 dhcrelay. Prior to this all three always did the initialization at startup
151 which causes them to always open on and listen for traffic on two random
ff343a30 152 ports. Thanks to Rodney Beede for reporting the issue.
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153 [ISC-Bugs #45290]
154 [ISC-Bugs #33377]
155
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156- Added error logging to two memory allocation failure checks. Thanks to Bill
157 Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) for reporting the issue.
158 [ISC-Bugs #41185]
159
251bb4b9 160- Corrected a dhclient -6 issue that caused the client to crash with an
161 "Impossible condition" error after de-preferencing its only IA binding.
162 The crash occurred when server configuration changes rendered the existing
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163 binding out-of-range and no other leases were available to offer. Thanks
164 to Pierre Clerissi for bringing this issue to our attention.
251bb4b9 165 [ISC-Bugs #44373]
166
5c03ed37 167- By defining CALL_SCRIPT_ON_ONETRY_FAIL in includes/site.h, dhclient will
168 now call the script with reason set to FAIL when run with -1 (one try) and
169 there are no server responses. This applies to IPv4 mode only. Thanks for a
170 patch by Martin Pitt which got to us via Andrew Pollock.
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171 [ISC-bugs #18183]
172
6573afff 173- Linux script updated. The script is now based on Debian version. It uses
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174 ip tool from iproute2 package and ifconfig is no longer used. This also
175 addresses an issue of calling arping with inappropriate parameter.
6573afff 176 [ISC-bugs #19430]
fbe81d8e 177 [ISC-bugs #18111]
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179- The directory minires has been removed from the source tree. It has
180 long been obsolete for branches other than v4_1_esv. Additonally,
181 includes/minires.h was renamed includes/ns_name.h.
182 [ISC-bugs #45471]
183
d618ba48 184 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
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186- Tidy up several small tickets.
187 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
188 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
189 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
190 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
191 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
192 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
193 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
194 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
195 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
196 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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198- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
199 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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201- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
202 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
203 Popelka at Red Hat.
204 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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206- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
207 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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209- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
210 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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212- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
213 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
214 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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216- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
217 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
218 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
219 option in the list.
220 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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222- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
223 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
224 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
225 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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227- Remove unused RCSID tags.
228 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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230- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
231 for MRT limit it to MRD.
232 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
233 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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235- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
236 when a server, relay or client are killed.
237 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
238 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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240- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
241 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
242 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
243 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
244 given the "-1" argument.
245 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
246 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
247 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
248 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
249 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
250 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
251 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
252 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
253 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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255- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
256 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
257 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
258 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
259 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
260 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
261 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
262 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
263 to syslog.
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265- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
266 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
267 number in syslog messages.
268 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
269 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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271- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
272 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
273 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
274 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
275 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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277- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
278 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
279 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
280 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
281 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
282 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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284- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
285 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
286 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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288- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
289 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
290 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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292- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
293 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
294 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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296- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
297 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
298 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
299 in a pool are used.
300 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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302- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
303 on an error condition.
304 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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306- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
307 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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309- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
310 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
311 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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313- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
314 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
315 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
316 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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318- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
319 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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321- Tidy up receive packet processing.
322 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
323 a possible patch.
324 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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326- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
327 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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329- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
330 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
331 and hmac-sha512
332 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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334- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
335 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 336 patch.
d618ba48 337 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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339- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
340 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
341 provided the patch.
342 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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344- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
345 after the configuration file has been processed.
346 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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348- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
349 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
350 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
351 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
352 compilers that was introduced by #36712
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354- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
355 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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357- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
358 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
359 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
360 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
361 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
362 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
363 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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365- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
366 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
367 bug report and patch.
368 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
369 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
370 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
371 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
372 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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374- Addressed checksum issues:
375 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
376 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
377 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
378 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
379 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
380 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
381 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
382 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
383 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
384 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
385 than being dropped.
386 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
387 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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389- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
390 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
391 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
392 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
393 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
394 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
395 inbound request to a known subnet.
396 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
397 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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399- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
400 BOOTP request handling.
401 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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403- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
404 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
405 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
406 the patch upon which the fix is based.
407 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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409- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
410 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
411 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
412 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
413 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
414 modified to send requests more often.
415 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
416 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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418- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
419 name from the following in order of preference:
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421 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
422 2. Host name option if provided by the client
423 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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425 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
426 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
427 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
428 and no other value is available.
429 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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431- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
432 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
433 corrected.
434 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
435 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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437- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
438 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
439 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
440 components.
441 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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443- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
444 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
445 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
446 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
447 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
448 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
449 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
450 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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452- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
453 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
454 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
455 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
456 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
457 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
458 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
459 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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461- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
462 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
463 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
464 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
465 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
466 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
467 bug and supplying a patch.
468 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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470- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
471 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
472 leae expiration code.
473 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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475- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
476 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
477 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
478 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
479 files.
480 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
481 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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483- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
484 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
485 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
486 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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488- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
489 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
490 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
491 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
492 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
493 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
494 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
495 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
496 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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498- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
499 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
500 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
501 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
502 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
503 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
504 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
505 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
506 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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508- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
509 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
510 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
511 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
512 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
513 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
514 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
515 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
516 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
517 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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520 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
521 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
522 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
523 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
524 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
525 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
526 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
527
528- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
529 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
530 bug report and patch.
531 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
532
533- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
534 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
535 code consistent across versions.
536 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
537
538- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
539 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
540 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
541 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
542 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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544 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
545
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547 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
548 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
549 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
550 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
551 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
552 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
553 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
554 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
555 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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557 inspired the fix.
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560- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
561 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
562 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
563 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 564 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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567 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
568 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
569 a proper length for it.
570 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
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573 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
574 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
575 reasonable to remove it.
576 [ISC-Buts #39019]
577
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580 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
581 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
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584 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
585 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
586 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
587 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
588
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589- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
590 table 3.
591 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
592
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593- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
594 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
595 the issue and suggesting the patch.
596 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
597
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598- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
599 of as a token.
600 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
601
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602- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
603 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
604 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
605 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
606 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
607 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
608 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
609
cca6a648 610- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
611 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
612 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
613 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
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616 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
617 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
618
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621 for the bug report.
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624- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
625 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
626 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
627 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
628 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 629 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 630 reporting the issue.
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634 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
635 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
636 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
637 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
638 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
639 itself.
640 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
641
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642- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
643 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
644 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
645 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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647- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
648 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
649 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
650 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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653 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
654 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
655 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
656 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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659 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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660 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
661 issue.
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663
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665 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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667 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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669 contributions (alphabetically):
670 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 671 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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672 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
673 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 674 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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675 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
676 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
677 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
678 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
679 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
680 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
681 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
682 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
683 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
684 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
685 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
686 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
687 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
688 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
689
af25ded3 690- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
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692 and suggesting a patch.
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695- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
696 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
697 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
698 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
699 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
700
45adf35c 701- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 702 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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703 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
704 the issue.
4e1bf548 705 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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708 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
709 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
710 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
711 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
712 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
713 tests.
714 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
715 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
716 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
717 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
718 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
719 use the command "make -k check".
720 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
721
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723 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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725- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
726 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
727 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
728 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
729 keep the previous behavior.
730 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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732- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
733 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
734 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
735 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
736 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
737 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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739- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
740 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
741 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
742 address them.
743 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
744 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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746- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
747 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
748 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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750- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
751 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
752 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
753 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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755- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
756 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
757 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
758 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
759 not show a value.
760 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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762- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
763 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
764 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
765 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
766 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
767 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
768 he provided.
769 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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771- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
772 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
773 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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775- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
776 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
777 the issue and supplying the patches.
778 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
779 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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781- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
782 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
783 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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785- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
786 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
787 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
788 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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790- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
791 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
792 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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794! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
795 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
796 patch.
797 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
798 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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800- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
801 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
802 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
803 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
804 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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806- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
807 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
808 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
809 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
810 the software to fail.
811 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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814 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
815 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
816 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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818- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
819 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
820 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
821 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
822 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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825 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
826 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
827 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
828 update as an "invalid state transition".
829 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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832 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
833 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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835- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
836 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
837 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
838 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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840- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
841 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
842 modified to work as infinite.
843 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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845- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
846 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
847 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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849- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
850 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
851 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
852 option as per RFC 6939.
853 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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855- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
856 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
857 for cross compilation.
858 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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860- Add more option definitions.
861 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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863- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
864 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
865 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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867- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
868 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
869 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
870 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
871 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
872 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
873 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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875- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
876 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
877 feature.
878 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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880- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
881 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
882 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
883 relay.
884 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
885 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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887- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
888 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
889 Section 22.4.
890 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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892- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
893 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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895- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
896 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
897 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
898 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
899 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
900 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
901 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
902 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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905 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
906 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
907 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
86bda88b 908 submitting a patch
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909 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
910 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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912- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
913 decoding a packet.
914 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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917 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
918 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
919 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
920 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
921 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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924 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
925 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
926 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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928- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
929 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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931- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
932 of circuit id length.
933 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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936 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
937 returned in responses.
938 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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941 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
942 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
943 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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946 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
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948 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
949 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
950 for reporting the issue.
d618ba48 951 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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954 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
955 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
956 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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958- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
959 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
960 a cut and paste error.
961 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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964 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
965 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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968 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
969 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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971 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
972 with us to produce a viable solution.
d618ba48 973 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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976 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
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979 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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2b5c8201 982 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
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985 patch.
d618ba48 986 [ISC-Bugs #42113]
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989 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
990 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
991 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
992 verify the problem and fix.
993 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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996 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
997 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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1001 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
1002 it runs out.
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1006 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
1007 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
1008 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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1015 to this change, the logic was techinically incorrect but other factors
1016 ensured the outcome itself was correct. This change was made primarily
1017 for code clarity. Thanks to Ganesh Pinjala for bringing the issue to our
1018 attention.
1019 [ISC-Bugs #42834]
1020
1021- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
1022 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
1023 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
1024 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
1025
1026- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
1027 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
1028 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
1029 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
1030 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
1031
86bda88b 1032- The configure script for use with libtool now catches a failure to
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1033 execute autoreconf. Prior to this, autoreconf failures would go undetected
1034 causing the legacy configure script to loop when run with --enable-libtool.
1035 [ISC-Bugs #43546]
1036
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1038 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
1039 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
1040 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
1041 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
1042 [ISC-Bugs #45051]
1043
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1044- When memory allocation fails in a repeated way the process writes
1045 "Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
1046 [ISC-Bugs #32744]
1047
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1048- The new lmdb (Lightning Memory DataBase) bind9 configure option is
1049 now disabled by default to avoid the presence of this library to be
1050 detected which can lead to a link failure.
1051 [ISC-Bugs #45069]
1052
86bda88b 1053- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
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1054 as is done for BSD and OS-X. Prior to this the code would only recognize
1055 the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
1056 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at Suse, and Wei
1057 Kong at Novell, who all submitted patches.
1058 [ISC-Bugs #28761]
1059 [ISC-Bugs #31992]
1060 [ISC-Bugs #25428]
1061 [ISC-Bugs #31940]
01bfe9c5 1062 [ISC-Bugs #32935]
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1064- Fixed a bug in OMAPI that causes omshell to crash when a name-value
1065 pair with a zero length value is shipped in an object. Thanks to
1066 Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and
1067 supplying the patch.
1068 [ISC-Bugs #29108]
1069
1070- On 64-bit platforms, dhclient now generates the correct value for the
1071 script environment variable, "expiry", the lease expiry value exceeds
1072 0x7FFFFFFF. Prior to this such values would produce negative values
1073 for expiry in the script environment.
1074 [ISC-Bugs #43326]
1075
1076- Common timer logic was modified to cap the maximum timeout values at
1077 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. Values larger than that were causing fatal timer out of
1078 range errors on 64-bit platforms. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
1079 reporting the issue.
1080 [ISC-Bugs #28038]
1081
1082- DHCP6 FQDN option unpacking code now correctly handles values that contain
1083 spaces, special, or non-printable characters. Prior to this the buffer
1084 size needed was underestitmate causing a conversion error message to
1085 be logged and DNS updates to be skipped. Thanks to Fernando Soto at
1086 BlueCat Networks for bringing the matter to our attention.
1087 [ISC-Bugs #43592]
1088
1089- When running in -6 mode, dhclient now enforces the require option statement
1090 and will discard offered leases that do not contain all the required
1091 options specified in the client configuration. Prior to this the client
1092 would still consider such leases. This may be disabled at compile time
1093 (see ENFORCE_DHCPV6_CLIENT_REQUIRE in includes/site.h). Thanks to
1094 Mritunjaykumar Dubey at Nokia for reporting the issue.
1095 [ISC-Bugs #41473]
1096
1097- Altered DHCPv4 lease time calculation to avoid roll over errors on 64-bit
1098 OS systems when using -1 or large values for default-lease-time. Rollover
1099 values will be replaced with 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. This alleviates unintentionally
1100 short expiration times being handed out when infinite lease times (-1) in
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1102 the issue to our attention.
9b7d458d 1103 [ISC-Bugs #41976]
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1106 when attempting to match it to a prefix pool. This ensures the server
1107 responds properly when pool configurations change such that once valid,
1108 "in-pool" delegations are now treated as being invalid. During lease
1109 file loading at startup, the server will discard any PD leases that
1110 are deemed "out-of-pool" either by address or mis-matched prefix length.
1111 Clients seeking to renew or rebind such leases will get a response of
1112 No Binding in the case of the former, and the prefix delegation with
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1114 at TDS Telecom for reporting this issue.
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1116
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1117- The server now detects failover peers that are not referenced in at least
1118 one pool when run with the command line option for test mode, -T. Prior to
1119 this the check was performed too far down stream to be detected in test mode.
1120 [ISC-Bugs #29892]
1121
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1123 the received packets from 'info' to 'debug' to avoid logging excessive
1124 number of false positives when UDP checksum offloading is enabled.
1125 [ISC-bugs #41757]
1126
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1129- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
1130 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
1131 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
1132 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
1133 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
1134 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 1135 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 1136 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 1137 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 1138 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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1140- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
1141 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
1142 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
1143
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1144- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
1145 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
1146 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
1147 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1148 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 1149
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1150- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1151 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1152 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1153 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1154 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1155 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1156
a7341359 1157- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 1158 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 1159
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1160- Add support for using classes with v6.
1161 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
1162
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1163- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
1164 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1165 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1166 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1167 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1168 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1169 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1170 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1172- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1173 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1174 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1175 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1176 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1177 not recommended.
64fb661c 1178 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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1180- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1181 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1182 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1183 This is "Server starting service.".
1184 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1185 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1186 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1187 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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1189- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
1190 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1191 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1192 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1193 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1194 man page for a description.
1195 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1196
e54ff84f 1197- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1198 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1199 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1200 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1201 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1202 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1203 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1204
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1205- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1206 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1207 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1208 one instance of their respective address types.
1209 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
4d079f0e 1210
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1211- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1212 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1213 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1214 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1215 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1216 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1217 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1219- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1220 and take host declarations into account.
1221 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1222 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1223
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1224- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1225 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1226 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1227 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 1228
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1229- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1230 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1231 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1232
01a44a77 1233 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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1235- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1236 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1237
01a44a77 1238- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1239
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1240- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1241 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1242
01a44a77 1243- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1244
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1245- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1246 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1247 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1248 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1249 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1250 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1251
01a44a77 1252- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1253
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1254- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1255 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1256
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1257- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1258 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1259 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1260 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1261
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1262- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1263 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1264 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1265 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1266 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1267 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1268 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1269 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1270 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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1272- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1273 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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1275! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1276 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1277 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1278 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1279
01a44a77 1280- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1281
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1282- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1283 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1284 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1285 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1286 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1287
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1288- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1289 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1290 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1291 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1292 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1293
01a44a77 1294- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1295
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1296- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1297 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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1299- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1300 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1301 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1302 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1303 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1304 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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1306- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1307 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1308
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1309 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1310 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1311
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1312 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1313 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1314
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1315 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1316 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1317
01a44a77 1318- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1319
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1320- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1321 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1322 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1323 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1324 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1325 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
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1327- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1328 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1329 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1330 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1331 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1332 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1333
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1334- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1335 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1336 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1337
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1338- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1339 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1340 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1341 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1342
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1343- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1344 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1345
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1346- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1347 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1348 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1349
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1350- Minor code fixes
1351 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1352 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1353 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1354 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1355 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1356 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1357 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1358 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1359 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1360 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1361 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1362 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1363
01a44a77 1364- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1365
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1366- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1367 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1368
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1369- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1370 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1371
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1372- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1373 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1374
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1375- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1376 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1377 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1378
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1379- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1380 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1381
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1382- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1383 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1384 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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1386- Fixes to lease input and output.
1387 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1388 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1389 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1390 characters.
1391 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1392 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1393
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1394- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1395 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1396 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1397 at Red Hat.
1398 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1399 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1400 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1401 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1402
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1403- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1404 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1405 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1406 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1407
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1409 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1410 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1411 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1413- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1414 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1415 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1416
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1417- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1418 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1419 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1420 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1421 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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1423- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1424 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1425 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1426 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1427 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1428
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1429! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1430 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1431 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1432 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1433 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1434 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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1436- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1437 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1438 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1439
adb95d23 1440- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1441 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1442 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1443
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1444- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1445 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1446 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1447
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1448- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1449 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1450 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1451 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1452 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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1454- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1455 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1456 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1457 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1458
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1459! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1460 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1461 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1462 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1463 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1464 and reset its timeout value.
1465 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1467- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1468 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1469 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1470 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1472 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
1473 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1474 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
25f664a6 1475
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1476- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1477 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1478 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1479 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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1481- Some fixes for LDAP
1482 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1483 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1484 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 1485
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1486- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1487 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1488
1489! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1490 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1491 interfaces with the OS.
1492 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1493 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1495- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1496 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1497
1498- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1499 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1500 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1501 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1502 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1503 in v6 mode at configure time.
1504 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1506- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1507 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1508 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1509 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1511- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1512 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1513 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1514 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1515 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1517- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1518 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1519 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1520 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1521 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1523- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1524 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1525 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1526 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1527 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1529- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1530 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1531 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1533- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1534 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1535 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1536 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1537 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1539- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1540 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1541 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1542
1543- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1544 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1545 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1546
1547- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1548 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1549 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1550 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1551 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1552 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1553
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1555 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1556 responses to the all-ones address.
1557 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1558 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1559
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1560- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1561 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1562 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1563 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1564
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1565- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1566 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1567
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1568- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1569 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1570 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1571
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1572- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1573 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1574 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1575 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1576 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1577 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1578 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1579 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1580 enable this except for testing purposes.
1581 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1582 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1583
c616de4f 1584- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1585 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1587- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1588
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1589- Client Script fixes
1590 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1591 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1592 the domain search address is link local.
1593 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1594 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1595 being changed.
1596
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1597- Documentation cleanup
1598 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1599
9a111ee8 1600- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1601 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1602
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1603- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1604 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1605 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1606 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1607
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1608- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1609 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1610 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1611
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1612- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1613 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1614
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1615- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1616 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1617 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1618 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1619 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1620 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1621
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1622- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1623 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1624 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1625 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1626 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1627 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1628 in site.h then server will be terminated
1629 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1630
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1631! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1632 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1633 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1634 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1635 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1636 CVE-2011-2748
1637 CVE-2011-2749
1638
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1639- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1640 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1641 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1642 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1643
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1644- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1645 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1646
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1647- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1648 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1649
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1650- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1651 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1652
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1653! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1654 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1655 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1656 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1657 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1658 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1659
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1660! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1661 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1662 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1663 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1664 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1665 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1666 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1667 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1668 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1669 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1670 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1671 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1672
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1673- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1674 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1675 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1676 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1677
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1678- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1679 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1680 from the DNS client code.
1681 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1682
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1683- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1684 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1685
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1686- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1687 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1688 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1689 some issues we found in the socket code.
1690 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1691
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1692- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1693 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1694 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1695 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1696
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1697- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1698 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1699
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1700- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1701 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1702 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1703 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1704 weren't removed from the DNS.
1705 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1706
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1707- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1708 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1709 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1710 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1711
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1712- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1713 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1714 dynamic bootp clients.
1715 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1716
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1717- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1718 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1719 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1720 handing it out.
1721 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1722 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1723 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1724 for different IAs.
1725 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1726 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1727
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1728- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1729 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1730 an int as a boolean).
1731 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1732
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1733- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1734 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1735 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1736 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1737 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1738 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1739 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1740 may be removed in the future.
1741 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1742 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1743
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1744- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1745 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1746 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1747 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1748
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1749- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1750 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1751 report and the first version of the patch.
1752 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1753
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1754- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1755 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1756 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1757 for reporting this issue.
1758 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1759
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1760- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1761 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1762 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1763 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1764 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1765 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1766 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1767 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1768 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1769 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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1771! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1772 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1773 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1774 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1775 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1776 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1777 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1778 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1779 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1780 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1781 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1782 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1783
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1784! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1785 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1786 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1787 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1788 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1789 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1790
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1791! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1792 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1793 this issue.
1794 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1795 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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1797- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1798 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1799 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1800 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1801 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1802 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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1804! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1805 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1806 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1807 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1808 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1809 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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1811- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1812 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1813
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1814- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1815 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1816 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1817 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1818 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1819 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1820
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1821- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1822 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1823 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1824 freed in other cases.
1825 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1826
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1827- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1828 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1829 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1830 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1831 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1832 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1833 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1834 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1835
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1836- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1837 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1838 and patches.
1839 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1840
9a111ee8 1841- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1842 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1843
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1844- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1845 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1846 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1847
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1848- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1849 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1850 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1851 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1852 variables.
1853 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1854
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1855- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1856 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1857 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1858 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1859 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1860 enabling it.
1861 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1862
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1863- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1864 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1865
adb95d23 1866- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1867 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1868 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1869 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1870 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1871
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1872- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1873 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1874 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1875 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1876 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1877
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1878- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1879 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1880
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1881- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1882 and comment out a currently unused test.
1883 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1884
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1885- Address static analysis warnings.
1886 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1887
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1888- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1889 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1890
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1891- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1892 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1893
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1894- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1895 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1896
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1897- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1898 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1899 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1900
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1901- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1902 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1903 for the patch.
1904 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1905
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1906- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1907 objects.
1908 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1909
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1910- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1911 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1912 to work more consistently.
1913 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1914
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1915- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1916 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1917 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1918
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1919- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1920 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1921
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1922- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1923 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1924 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1925 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1926 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1927
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1928- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1929 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1930
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1931- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1932 to the clients.
1933 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1934
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1935- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1936 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1937
7aa153b8 1938
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1939 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1940
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1941- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1942 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1943 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1944
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DH
1945- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1946 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1947 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1948
8a3c1e33
PS
1949- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1950 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1951
a41d7a25
PS
1952- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1953
9e3eb22a
DH
1954- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1955 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1956 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1957 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1958 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1959 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1960
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1961- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1962 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1963 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1964 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1965 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1966 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1967 FQDN options by default).
1968
5a671e87
DH
1969- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1970 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1971 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1972 determined lease time) are omitted.
1973
adb95d23 1974- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1975 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1976 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
DH
1977
1978- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1979 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1980 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1981
59112e84
SR
1982 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1983
62f6843d
MA
1984- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1985
59112e84
SR
1986- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1987
47e6eb82
DH
1988- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1989 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1990 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1991 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1992 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1993
159c89d7
EH
1994- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1995
1aa0fe5e
DH
1996- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1997 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1998 had been deleted from configuration.
1999
cd51403d
SR
2000- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
2001 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 2002 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
2003 were being ignored.
2004
64e1823d
DH
2005- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
2006
26e59ee9
DH
2007- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
2008 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
2009 Nordahl.
2010
70ea9345
PS
2011- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
2012 dhcpv6 disabled.
2013
8d7dca58 2014- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 2015 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 2016
f4534b17
DH
2017- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
2018 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
2019
f9453d21
DH
2020- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
2021 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
2022 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
2023
2024- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
2025 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
2026 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
2027 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
2028 fewer system calls.
2029
a3dcc0b1
DH
2030- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
2031 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
2032 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
2033 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
2034 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
2035 Christof Chen.
2036
95fd7038
DH
2037- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
2038 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
2039 and in normal state.
2040
2041- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
2042 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
2043
8a3c1e33
PS
2044- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
2045
2046- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
2047 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
2048 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
2049
dedde1ba
DH
2050- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
2051 rather than restarting the listener.
2052
a57df74a
DH
2053- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
2054 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
2055
2056- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
2057 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
2058 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
2059
350576c5
DH
2060- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
2061 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
2062 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
2063 timeouts).
2064
792156a9
DH
2065- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
2066 in failover state records.
2067
8a4e543b
DH
2068! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
2069 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
2070 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 2071 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 2072
a1308b64
DH
2073- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
2074 processing a DHCPINFORM.
2075
1b12d999
DH
2076- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
2077 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
2078 last option definition is used.
2079
d453265f
PS
2080- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
2081 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
2082 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
2083
3e29af1e
PS
2084- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
2085 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
2086
b8d45c67
DH
2087- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
2088 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
2089 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
2090 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
2091 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
2092 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
2093
583c1c16
DH
2094- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
2095 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
2096 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
2097 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
2098
e4e3a2ab
DH
2099! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
2100 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 2101
875e99dc
SR
2102- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
2103 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
2104
2267da84
DH
2105- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
2106 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
2107 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
2108 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
2109 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 2110 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
2111 configuration.
2112
cd3f0b9b
DH
2113- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
2114 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
2115
0493fdca
SR
2116- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
2117 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
2118 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
2119 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
2120
95bba8b6
SR
2121- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
2122 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
2123 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 2124 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 2125
adbef119 2126 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
2127
2128- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
2129 be recognized.
61d75ea2 2130
a4ffedd1
DH
2131 Changes since 4.1.0a2
2132
2133- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
2134 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
2135 "abandoned".
2136
6ff3b26d
FD
2137- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
2138
1387545f
DH
2139- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
2140 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
2141
2142- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
2143 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
2144
2145- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 2146 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 2147
399d3dbe
DH
2148- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2149
fbcee149
DH
2150- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2151 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2152 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2153 in future releases.
2154
f1672d89
DH
2155- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2156 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2157
236d3a99
DH
2158- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2159 'dhclient -6' support.
2160
efa5e6b9
DH
2161- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2162 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2163 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2164 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2165
7d6180be 2166 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
2167
2168- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2169
51e7687f
EH
2170- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2171
20210a7b
EH
2172- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2173 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2174 only the latter. Fixed.
2175
535485df
EH
2176- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2177
8fbb55ff
DH
2178- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2179 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2180
61220a00
EH
2181- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2182
c40e954c
EH
2183- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2184
63971a83
DH
2185- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2186 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2187 --enable-early-chroot.
2188
66cebfcb
DH
2189- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2190 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2191
f8cbf390
DH
2192- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2193 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2194 parameter.
2195
8269561d
DH
2196- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2197 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2198
b445a411
DH
2199- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2200 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2201
bd72740e
FD
2202- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2203
9322442f
FD
2204- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2205
8dea7ba7
FD
2206- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2207
4619c0a2
DH
2208- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2209
9ac4206a
DH
2210- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2211 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2212 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2213
420d8b3f
FD
2214- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2215 support.
2216
40ec5f38
DH
2217- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2218 repaired.
2219
80097764
FD
2220- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2221
ffbaa880
FD
2222- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2223
7de20a95
EH
2224- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2225 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2226
d352732e
EH
2227- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2228 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2229
7d6180be
DH
2230- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2231 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2232
2233- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2234 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2235 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2236 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2237 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2238 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2239 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2240 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2241 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2242 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2243 shared-network.
2244
2245- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2246 configured option values.
2247
2248- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2249 support class statements.
2250
adb95d23 2251- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2252 selection were repaired.
2253
ecddae64
DH
2254- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2255 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2256 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2257 by the OS.
2258
2259- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2260 address.
2261
2262- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2263 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2264
d104d45b
DH
2265- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2266
2267- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2268
2269- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2270 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2271
01a54c17 2272 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2273
6d7f9584
FD
2274- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2275
4cafb815 2276- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2277 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2278
022fe95e
EH
2279- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2280 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2281 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2282
9a111ee8 2283- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1dcc3612
SK
2284 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2285
aabfa4de
FD
2286- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2287
0674055a
FD
2288- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2289 reserved IDs avoided).
2290
b51c785f
FD
2291- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2292
900405e9
FD
2293- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2294 carries a rapid-commit option.
2295
96b620e5
FD
2296- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2297 an empty active lease.
2298
be62cf06
FD
2299- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2300
01a54c17
EH
2301- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2302 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2303 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2304 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2305
adb95d23 2306- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2307
2308- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2309 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2310 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2311 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2312 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2313 Christof Chen.
2314
2315 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2316
2317- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2318
2319- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2320 config file but -6 is not specified.
2321
2322- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2323
2324- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2325 be more helpful.
2326
2327- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2328 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2329 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2330
2331- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2332 was repaired.
2333
2334- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2335 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2336 been repaired.
2337
2338- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2339 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2340 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2341
49f61135
DH
2342- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2343 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2344
41d4652f
DH
2345- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2346 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2347 IPv4 address.
2348
2c9bf1f4
DH
2349- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2350 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2351 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2352 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2353 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2354
2355- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2356 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2357 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2358
cff9b78f
SK
2359- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2360
c4d29896
SK
2361- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2362
57fcb8d9
SK
2363- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2364 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2365 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2366 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
SK
2367 unnecessary logging.
2368
219a65eb
DH
2369- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2370 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2371
ffdf3c8c
DH
2372- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2373 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2374 is incompatible is printed.
2375
2376- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2377 a previously undefined option code.
2378
00a002fc
MA
2379- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2380 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2381
9a111ee8 2382- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2383 than the year 2000.
2384
e2cfde76
FD
2385- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2386
cabdb9b1
FD
2387- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2388
5d89d60f
FD
2389- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2390
61d75ea2
DH
2391 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2392
2393- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2394 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2395 configuration.
76db44f9 2396
e32529a5
EH
2397- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2398 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2399
9a111ee8 2400- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
76db44f9
SK
2401 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2402 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2403
9a111ee8
TM
2404- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2405 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
6f76de58
SK
2406 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2407 a requested address.
2408
703873ab
DH
2409- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2410 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2411 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2412 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2413
2414- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2415 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2416 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2417 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2418
b024480e
DH
2419- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2420 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2421 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2422
c0216cb7
DH
2423- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2424 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2425
1ac57173
FD
2426- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2427
83835822
DH
2428- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2429 codes through some conditions.
2430
c54db708
FD
2431- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2432 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2433
e5d83524
DH
2434- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2435 seemingly random values.
2436
821f2dda
DH
2437- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2438
f8b3c6f4
DH
2439- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2440 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2441 one ever has.
2442
9a111ee8
TM
2443- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2444 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
b9137d42
SK
2445 to a REQUEST.
2446
9f1d5a2f
DH
2447- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2448 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2449 level.
2450
e4a6be15
DH
2451 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2452
65cf86d7
EH
2453- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2454
b1d3778c
DH
2455- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2456 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2457 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2458 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2459 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2460
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2461- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2462 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2463 new address.
2464
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2465 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2466
75135a3f 2467- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2468 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
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2469 simultaneously on a single interface.
2470
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2471- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2472 of service under unusual server configurations
2473
2474- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2475
9a111ee8 2476- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2477 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2478
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2479- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2480 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2481 on every pool rebalance run.
2482
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2483- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2484 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2485
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2486- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2487 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2488
ab3a540f 2489 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2490
9a111ee8 2491- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2492 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2493
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2494- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2495 point out the problem.
2496
9a111ee8 2497- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
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2498 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2499 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2500
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2501- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2502 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2503
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2504- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2505 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2506 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2507
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2508- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2509
9a111ee8 2510- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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2511 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2512
8eab95f2
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2513- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2514 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2515 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2516 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2517
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2518- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2519
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2520- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2521 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2522 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2523 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2524 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2525
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2526- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2527
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2528 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2529
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2530- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2531 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2532
763cba6b 2533- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2534
237f8d3a 2535- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2536 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
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2537 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2538
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2539- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2540
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2541- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2542 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2543
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2544- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2545 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2546 loaded from persistent storage.
2547
45d545f0 2548- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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2549 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2550 necessary.
2551
9a111ee8
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2552- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2553 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2554 rapid-commit option.
2555
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2556- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2557 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2558
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2559 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2560
71765b58
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2561- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2562 and fix.
2563
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2564- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2565
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2566- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2567
9b21e73e
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2568- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2569 for when loading configuration.
2570
8da06bb1
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2571- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2572 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2573 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2574
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2575- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2576 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2577 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2578 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2579
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2580- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2581
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DH
2582- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2583 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2584
c11f349d
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2585- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2586
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2587- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2588
2589- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2590 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2591
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EH
2592- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2593 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2594
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2595- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2596
26be82af
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2597- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2598 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2599
98bd7ca0
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2600 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2601
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2602- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2603
8c1752d2
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2604- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2605 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2606
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2607- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2608
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2609- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2610 initialized.
2611
2612- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2613
2614- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2615 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2616
2617- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2618
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2619- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2620
2621- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2622 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2623
2624- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2625
8ea19a71 2626- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2627 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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2628
2629- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2630 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2631
2cf8d0bd
DH
2632- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2633
2634- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2635
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DH
2636- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2637
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DH
2638 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2639
2640- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2641 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2642 no support currently for both.
2643
2644- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2645 IAADDR option.
2646
2647- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2648 options.
2649
2650- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2651
2652- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2653 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2654
2655- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2656 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2657 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2658
2659- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2660 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2661
2662- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2663 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2664 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2665 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2666 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2667 differently, they both use the same code here).
2668
2669- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2670 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2671 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2672
2673- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2674
2675- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2676 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2677 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2678 it should not intercept.
2679
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DH
2680 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2681
2682- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2683 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2684 between primary and secondary.
2685
2686- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2687 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2688 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2689
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2690- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2691
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2692- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2693 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2694 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2695 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2696 or REQUEST messages.
2697
2698- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2699 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2700
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2701- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2702
b9d0cc05
DH
2703 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2704
adb95d23 2705- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
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2706 failover protected subnets was removed.
2707
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2708 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2709
2710- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2711 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2712 odd number of leases).
2713
2714- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2715 rebalance run, and one after.
2716
2717- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2718 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2719 processing these messages.
2720
fe5b0fdd 2721 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2722
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2723- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2724 objects.
2725
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2726- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2727 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2728 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2729 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2730 at Allianz.
2731
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2732- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2733 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2734
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2735- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2736 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2737
27837f95
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2738- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2739 caused the server to abort.
2740
4d2eaafb
DH
2741- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2742 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2743 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2744
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2745- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2746 by empty spaces would not get included.
2747
d6614ea2
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2748- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2749 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2750
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2751- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2752 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2753
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2754- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2755 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2756
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2757- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2758 on the parameter request list.
2759
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2760 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2761
2762- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2763
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2764 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2765
2766- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2767 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2768
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DH
2769- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2770 domain-search option syntax.
2771
bdddcb7d
DH
2772 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2773
2774- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2775 hash table was repaired.
2776
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2777- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2778 entering normal state.
2779
2780- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2781 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
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2782 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2783
2784- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2785 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2786
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2787- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2788 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2789 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2790 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2791
45d545f0 2792- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
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2793 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2794 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2795 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2796 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2797 to their needs.
2798
2799- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2800 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2801 run will attempt balance.
2802
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2803- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2804
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2805 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2806
2807- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2808 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2809 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2810 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2811
98bd7ca0 2812- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2813 was introduced.
98311e4b
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2814
2815- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2816 via OMAPI.
2817
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2818- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2819 the protocol draft.
2820
98311e4b
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2821- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2822 one does not already exist on the system.
2823
b43c87ad 2824- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2825
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2826- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2827 matches RFC 3074.
2828
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2829- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2830 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2831 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2832
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DH
2833- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2834 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2835 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2836
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DH
2837- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2838 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2839 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2840 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2841
2842- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2843 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2844 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2845 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2846
f7fdb216 2847- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2848 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2849 DHCPv6 support.
2850
5e864416
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2851- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2852 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2853 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2854
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2855- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2856 have been incorporated.
2857
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2858- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2859 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2860 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2861 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2862 that belong to the peer in need.
2863
2864- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2865 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2866
2867- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2868 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2869 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2870
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2871- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2872 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2873
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2874- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2875 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2876 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2877 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2878 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2879
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2880- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2881 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2882 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2883 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2884
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2885- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2886 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2887 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2888 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2889 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2890 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2891 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2892 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2893 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2894
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2895- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2896 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2897
41e45067 2898- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
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2899 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2900 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2901 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2902
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2903- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2904 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2905 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2906 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2907
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2908- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2909 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2910 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2911 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2912 via Robin Breathe.
2913
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2914- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2915 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2916 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2917 from Christof Chen.
2918
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2919- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2920 formally supported.
2921
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2922 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2923
2924- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2925 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2926
c1e6c832
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2927 Changes since 3.0.5
2928
f546c28b
DH
2929- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2930 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2931 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2932 they actually received.
f546c28b
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2933
2934- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2935
c1e6c832
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2936- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2937 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
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2938 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2939 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2940
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2941- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2942
d69fb6a8 2943- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2944 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2945
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2946- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2947 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2948 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2949 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2950 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2951 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2952 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
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2953 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2954
2955- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2956 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2957 'file' field.
02428754 2958
ecde99a3
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2959- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2960 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2961
67674ffb
DH
2962- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2963 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2964 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2965
830ebc4c
DH
2966- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2967 from Chris Wagner.
2968
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2969- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2970 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2971 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2972
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2973- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2974 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2975 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2976 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2977 was set.
2978
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2979- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2980 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2981
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2982- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2983 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2984 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2985 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2986 active ones.
2987
02428754 2988 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2989
901306d5 2990- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2991 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2992 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2993 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2994 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2995
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2996- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2997 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2998
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2999 Changes since 3.0.4
3000
3001- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
3002 scopes are actually global has been added.
3003
3004- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
3005 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
3006 known to be damaging.
3007
3008- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
3009 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
3010 balancing).
3011
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3012- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
3013 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
3014 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
3015
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3016- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
3017 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
3018 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
3019
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3020- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
3021 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
3022 more clear now.
3023
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3024- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
3025 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
3026 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
3027 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
3028 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 3029 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 3030
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3031- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
3032 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
3033
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3034- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
3035 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
3036 made possible.
3037
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3038- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
3039 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
3040 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
3041
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3042- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
3043 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
3044
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3045- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
3046 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
3047 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
3048
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3049- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
3050 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
3051 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
3052 value with the later configured value).
3053
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3054- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
3055 have been named and documented.
3056
3057- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
3058 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
3059 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
3060 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
3061 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
3062 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
3063 write new output.
3064
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3065 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
3066
3067- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
3068 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
3069
3070 Changes since 3.0.4b3
3071
3072- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
3073 mailing list.
3074
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3075 Changes since 3.0.4b2
3076
45d545f0 3077- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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3078 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
3079
3080- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
3081 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
3082
3083- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
3084 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
3085 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
3086 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
3087
3088- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
3089 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
3090 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
3091 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
3092 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
3093 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
3094 transition (properly).
3095
3096- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
3097
3098 Changes since 3.0.4b1
3099
3100- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
3101 STDIN after reading one line.
3102
3103- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
3104 descriptor it opened twice.
3105
3106- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
3107 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
3108 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
3109
3110 Changes since 3.0.3
3111
3112- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
3113 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
3114 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
3115
3116- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
3117 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
3118 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
3119
3120- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
3121 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 3122 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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3123 leases to allocate.
3124
3125- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 3126 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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3127 than the entire block of them.
3128
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3129! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
3130 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
3131 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
3132 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
3133 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
3134 to a patch from infamous42md.
3135
3136! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
3137 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
3138 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
3139 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
3140 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
3141 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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3142
3143- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
3144 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
3145 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
3146
3147- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3148 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3149
3150- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3151 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3152 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3153 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3154 transitional states.
3155
3156- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3157 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3158 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3159
3160- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3161 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3162 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3163
3164- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3165 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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3166
3167- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3168 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3169
3170- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3171 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3172 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3173
3174- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3175 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3176
3177- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3178 repaired.
3179
3180- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3181 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3182 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3183 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3184
3185- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3186 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3187 data.
3188
3189- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3190 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3191 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3192 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3193 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3194
3195- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3196 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3197 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3198 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3199 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3200
3201- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3202 has been repaired.
3203
3204- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3205 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3206 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3207 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3208 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3209
3210- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3211 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3212
45d545f0 3213- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3214 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3215 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3216 move to 3.[01].x.
3217
3218- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3219 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3220
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3221 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3222
3223- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3224 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3225
3226- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3227 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3228 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3229 workaround.
3230
3231 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3232
3233- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3234 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3235
3236 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3237
3238- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3239 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3240 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3241
3242- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3243 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3244 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3245
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3246 Changes since 3.0.2
3247
3248- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3249 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3250 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3251
3252- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3253 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3254 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3255 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3256 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3257
3258- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3259 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3260 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3261
3262- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3263 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3264 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3265
3266- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3267 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3268 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3269 Peter Poeml.
3270
3271- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3272 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3273
3274- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3275 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3276 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3277 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3278 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3279 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3280
3281- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3282 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3283 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3284 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3285
3286- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3287 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3288 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3289 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3290
3291- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3292 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3293
3294- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3295 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3296 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3297
3298- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3299 7 bytes, and failover.
3300
3301- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3302 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3303 at Red Hat.
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3304
3305- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3306 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3307 should work better.
3308
3309- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3310 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3311 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3312
3313- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3314 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3315 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3316
3317 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3318
3319- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3320 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3321
3322 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3323
45d545f0 3324- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3325 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3326 overloading. This was repaired.
3327
3328- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3329 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3330 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3331 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3332 three chunks to fit.
3333
3334- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3335 were repaired.
3336
3337- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3338 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3339 leak).
3340
3341 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3342
3343- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3344 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3345
3346 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3347
3348- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3349
3350 Changes since 3.0.1
3351
3352- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3353 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3354 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3355
3356- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3357 name was not provided by the server.
3358
3359- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3360 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3361
3362- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3363 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3364
3365- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3366 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3367
3368- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3369
3370- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3371
3372- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3373 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3374 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3375 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3376 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3377
3378- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3379 the configuration be globally scoped.
3380
3381- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3382 Farkas.
3383
3384- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3385 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3386
3387- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3388 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3389
3390- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3391 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3392
3393- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3394 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3395 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3396 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3397
3398- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3399 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3400 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3401 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3402
3403- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3404 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3405 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3406
3407- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3408
3409- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3410 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3411 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3412
3413- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3414 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3415 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3416 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3417 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3418
3419- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3420 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3421
3422- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3423 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3424
3425- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3426 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3427 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3428 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3429
3430- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3431 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3432
3433- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3434 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3435 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3436
3437- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3438 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3439 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3440 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3441 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3442 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3443
3444- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3445 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3446 Infoblox.
3447
3448- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3449
3450- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3451 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3452 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3453 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3454 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3455 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3456 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3457
3458- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3459 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3460 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3461
3462- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3463 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3464 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3465
3466- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3467
3468 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3469
3470- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3471 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3472 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3473 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3474 systems either.
3475
3476- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3477
3478- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3479 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3480 is false.
3481
3482- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3483 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3484
3485- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3486
3487 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3488
3489! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3490 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3491 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3492 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3493 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3494 both finding and solving the problem.
3495
3496! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3497 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3498 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3499 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3500 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3501 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3502 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3503 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3504 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3505 published version of ISC DHCP.
3506
3507- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3508
3509- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3510
3511 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3512
3513- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3514 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3515 Richard Hirst.
3516
3517- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3518 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3519 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3520
3521- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3522
3523- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3524 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3525 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3526 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3527
3528- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3529 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3530
3531- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3532 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3533
3534- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3535
3536 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3537
3538- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3539 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3540
3541- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3542 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3543 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3544
3545- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3546 by name was fixed.
3547
45d545f0 3548- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3549 longer result in error.
3550
3551- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3552
3553- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3554 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3555 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3556
3557- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3558 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3559
3560- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3561 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3562 Blapp.
3563
3564- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3565 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3566 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3567 Martin Blapp.
3568
3569- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3570 expiry times in failover configurations.
3571
3572- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3573 Steve G.
3574
3575- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3576 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3577
3578- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3579 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3580 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3581 now "unknown-144".
3582
3583- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3584 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3585
3586 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3587
3588- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3589
3590- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3591 not be bash.
3592
3593- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3594
3595- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3596 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3597 that errored before will now work properly.
3598
3599- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3600 names was repaired.
3601
3602- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3603 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3604 configuration file.
3605
3606- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3607 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3608
3609- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3610 error rather than a null dereference.
3611
3612 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3613
3614- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3615
3616- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3617
3618- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3619 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3620
3621- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3622
3623- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3624
3625- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3626 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3627 self-corrupting lease databases.
3628
3629- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3630
3631- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3632 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3633
3634- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3635
3636- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3637
3638- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3639 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3640 Ling Gou.
3641
3642- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3643 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3644
3645- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3646 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3647 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3648
3649- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3650 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3651
3652 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3653
3654- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3655 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3656
3657- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3658
3659- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3660 a memory leak.
3661
3662- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3663 script.
3664
3665- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3666
3667- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3668
3669- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3670
3671- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3672
3673- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3674
3675- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3676
3677- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3678
3679- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3680
3681- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3682
3683- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3684
3685- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3686
3687- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3688
3689 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3690
3691- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3692 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3693 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3694
3695 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3696
3697- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3698 to be renewed.
3699
3700- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3701 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3702
3703- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3704 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3705
3706- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3707 that two permit lists matched.
3708
3709- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3710 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3711
3712- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3713
3714- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3715 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3716
3717- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3718
3719- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3720
3721- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3722 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3723 going to update its A record.
3724
3725- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3726 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3727 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3728 DNS server.
3729
3730- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3731
3732- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3733
3734- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3735 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3736 NetBSD project).
3737
3738- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3739 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3740
3741- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3742 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3743
3744- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3745
3746- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3747
3748- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3749 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3750 failover protocol standard.
3751
3752- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3753 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3754 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3755
3756- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3757 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3758 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3759 do so.
3760
3761- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3762
3763 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3764
3765- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3766
3767- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3768 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3769
3770- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3771 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3772
3773- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3774 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3775 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3776
3777- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3778 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3779 network, merge the two pools.
3780
3781- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3782 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3783 fix this bug.
3784
3785 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3786
3787- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3788 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3789
3790- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3791 the same case.
3792
3793- Additional documentation.
3794
3795- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3796 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3797
3798 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3799
3800- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3801- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3802
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3804
3805- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3806 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3807 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3808 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3809 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3810
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3812
3813- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3814 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3815 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3816 wasn't the one that removed it.
3817
3818- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3819 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3820 were not configured.
3821
3822- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3823
3824- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3825 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3826 routing information.
3827
3828- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3829 request being sent.
3830
3831- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3832 done.
3833
3834- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3835 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3836 were pending.
3837
3838- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3839 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3840 problems with failover.
3841
3842- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3843 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3844 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3845
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3847
3848- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3849 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3850
3851- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3852 no object is open, it dumps core.
3853
3854- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3855
3856- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3857
3858- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3859
3860- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3861 a host object attribute with a null value.
3862
3863 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3864
3865- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3866
3867- Fix an obscure core dump.
3868
3869- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3870 when crucial information is left out.
3871
3872- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3873
3874- Documentation updates.
3875
3876 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3877
3878- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3879
3880- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3881 structure wasn't zeroed.
3882
3883- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3884 incorrectly.
3885
3886- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3887 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3888 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3889 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3890 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3891 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3892 restarted.
3893
3894 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3895
3896- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3897 in failover-enabled pools.
3898
3899- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3900 declarations).
3901
3902- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3903 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3904
3905- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3906 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3907
3908- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3909
3910- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3911 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3912
3913- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3914
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3916
3917- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3918
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3919 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3920
3921- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3922
3923- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3924
3925- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3926
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3927 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3928
3929- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3930 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3931 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3932
3933- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3934 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3935 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3936 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3937 string.
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3938
3939- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3940
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3941 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3942
3943- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3944 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3945
3946- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3947 malformed packets.
3948
3949- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3950
3951- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3952 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3953 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3954
3955- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3956
3957- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3958
3959- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3960
3961- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3962 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3963
3964- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3965 tcp connections from being played back.
3966
3967- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3968 on exit.
3969
3970- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3971
3972- Add some configurability to the build system.
3973
3974- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3975
3976- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3977 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3978 hadn't been noticed until now.
3979
3980 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3981
3982- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3983 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3984
3985- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3986 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3987 conformant, but also didn't work).
3988
3989- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3990 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3991
3992- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3993 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3994
3995- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3996 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3997
3998- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3999 variables to leases via OMAPI.
4000
4001- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
4002 doing failover.
4003
4004- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
4005 running on alpha processors.
4006
4007- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
4008 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
4009
4010- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
4011
4012- Install omshell (including new documentation).
4013
4014- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
4015 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
4016
4017- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
4018
4019- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
4020 actually named (key names are domain names).
4021
4022- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
4023
4024- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
4025 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
4026
4027- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
4028 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
4029
4030- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
4031 statements.
4032
4033- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
4034 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
4035
4036- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
4037 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
4038 operating.
4039
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4040 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
4041
4042- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
4043 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
4044 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
4045 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
4046
4047- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
4048 using omapi to manipulate leases.
4049
4050- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
4051
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4052 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
4053
4054- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
4055 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
4056
4057- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
4058 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
4059 to the chain.
4060
4061- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
4062
4063- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
4064
4065- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
4066
98311e4b 4067- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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4068 attribute values in omshell.
4069
98311e4b 4070- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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4071
4072- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
4073
4074 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
4075
4076- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
4077 DHCPDECLINE.
4078
4079- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
4080
4081- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
4082 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
4083 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
4084
4085- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
4086
4087- Documentation fixes.
4088
4089- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
4090 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
4091
4092- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
4093 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
4094
4095- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
4096
4097- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
4098
4099- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
4100 case-insensitive.
4101
4102- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
4103
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4105 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
4106 consistently.
4107
4108- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
4109 systems with the probe not working correctly.
4110
4111- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
4112
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4113 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
4114
4115- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
4116 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
4117 result of duplicate leases.
4118
4119- Document OMAPI server objects.
4120
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4121 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
4122
4123- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
4124 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
4125
4126- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
4127 core dumps.
4128
4129- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
4130 Friedrich.
4131
4132- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
4133
4134 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
4135
4136- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
4137 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 4138 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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4139 billing class code.
4140
4141- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
4142 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
4143
4144- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
4145 trace file.
4146
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4149- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4150 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4151 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4152 e.g., Digital Unix.
4153
4154- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4155 when no error had occurred.
4156
4157- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4158 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4159 non-communicating state.
4160
4161- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4162
4163- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4164 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4165 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4166
4167- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4168 when the client lease expired.
4169
4170- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4171 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4172 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4173 in testing.
4174
4175- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4176 the command line, it would fail.
4177
4178- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4179 user impact).
4180
4181- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4182
4183- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4184 they're executable.
4185
4186 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4187
4188- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4189 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4190 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4191 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4192
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4193- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4194 Transmeta.
4195
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4196- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4197 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4198 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4199 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4200
4201- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4202 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4203
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4204 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4205
4206- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4207 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4208
4209- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4210
4211- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4212
4213- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4214
4215- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4216
4217- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4218
4219- Update some parts of the README file.
4220
4221- Support GCC on SCO.
4222
adbef119 4223 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
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4224
4225- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4226 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4227
4228- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4229 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4230 unbill the old class.
4231
4232- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4233 process the state transition immediately.
4234
4235- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4236 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4237
4238- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4239
4240- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4241
4242- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4243
4244- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4245
4246- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4247 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4248 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4249
4250- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4251 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4252
4253- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4254 lease file.
4255
4256- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4257
4258- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4259
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4261
4262- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4263 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4264
4265- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4266
adbef119 4267 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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4268
4269- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4270
adbef119 4271 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4272
4273- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4274
4275- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4276 pl19.
4277
4278- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4279 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4280 past the regression test.
4281
adbef119 4282 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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4283
4284- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4285 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4286
4287- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4288 DHCPREQUEST.
4289
4290- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4291
4292- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4293
4294- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4295
adbef119 4296 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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4298- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4299 (Damien Neil)
4300
4301- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4302 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4303
4304- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4305 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4306 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4307
4308- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4309 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4310 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4311 message.
4312
4313- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4314 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4315 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4316
98311e4b 4317- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4318 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4319 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4320 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4321 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4322 this way will work.
4323
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4324- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4325
4326- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4327 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4328 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4329 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4330
4331 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4332
4333 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4334
4335- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4336 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4337 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4338
4339- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4340 Hermann Lauer.
4341
4342- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4343 messages.
4344
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4345- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4346 it contained quoted strings.
4347
b3fad8ac
TL
4348 ** there was no pl17 **
4349
adbef119 4350 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 4351
6da9db9d
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4352- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4353 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4354 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4355 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4356 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4357 tracking down memory leaks.
4358
4359- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4360 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4361 Solaris.
4362
4363- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4364 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4365 corruption and core dumps.
4366
4367- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4368 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4369
4370- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4371
4372- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4373 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4374
4375- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4376 name and version to standard output.
4377
4378- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4379
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4380- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4381 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4382
6da9db9d
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4383- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4384
4385- Lots of documentation updates.
4386
4387- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4388 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4389
4390- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4391
4392- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4393 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4394
adbef119 4395 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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4396
4397- Some documentation tweaks.
4398
4399- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4400
4401- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4402
4403- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4404 agent options into them.
4405
4406- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4407
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4408- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4409 options.
4410
adbef119 4411 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4412
4413- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4414 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4415 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4416 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4417 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4418
4419- Fix up documentation.
4420
4421- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4422 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4423
4424- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4425
4426- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4427
4428- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4429 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4430 practical use otherwise.
4431
4432- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4433 for debugging.
4434
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4436
4437- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4438 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4439 dump on some systems.
4440
4441- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4442 option.
4443
4444- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4445 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4446
4447- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4448 that were not printing enough information.
4449
4450- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4451 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4452
4453- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4454 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4455 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4456 were answering.
4457
4458- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4459 the transition.
9a111ee8 4460
2f2e7960 4461
adbef119 4462 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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4463
4464- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4465
a1e2e3d6
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4466 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4467
4468- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4469 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4470 representation from working correctly.
4471
4472- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4473 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4474 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4475 could spin.
4476
4477- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4478 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4479
4480- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4481 interface name on the command line.
4482
4483- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4484 client state.
4485
4486- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4487 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4488 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4489 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4490 added by Ted Lemon.
4491
4492- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4493 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4494
4495- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4496 end option.
4497
4498- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4499 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4500 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4501
4502- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4503 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4504 face of a null hardware address on input.
4505
4506- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4507 specified unqualified.
4508
4509- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4510 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4511
4512- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4513 RFC.
4514
4515- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4516
4517- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4518
4519- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4520 it works.
4521
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4522 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4523
4524- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4525 to CVS.
4526
9fd337e7
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4527 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4528
4529- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4530
4531- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4532 in patchlevel 9.
4533
4534- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4535 options at renewal time.
4536
4537- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4538 configuration language.
4539
4540- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4541
4542- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4543 done when no client hostname was received.
4544
4545- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4546
4547- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4548 the DHCP option space.
4549
4550- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4551
4552- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4553 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4554
4555- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4556 silently dropped.
4557
4558- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4559 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4560
4561- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4562 will be correctly updated.
4563
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4564 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4565
4566- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4567 bounds-checking.
4568
4569 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
4570
4571- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4572
3922772a 4573 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 4574
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TL
4575- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4576 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4577 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4578
4579- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4580 option.
4581
4582- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4583 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4584 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4585 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4586 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4587 meaningfully.
4588
4589- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4590 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4591 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4592
4593- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4594 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4595 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4596 this one down!
4597
4598- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4599 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4600 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4601 down and fixing this problem.
4602
4603 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4604
0f6045f8
TL
4605- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4606 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4607
4608- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4609 environment.
4610
4611- Fix suffix operator.
4612
4613- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4614
4615- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4616 connection code.
4617
4618- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4619
4620- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4621
4622- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4623 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4624
4625- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4626
4627- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4628
4629- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4630 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4631
4632- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4633 spawn with.
4634
4635- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4636 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4637
4638- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4639 for OMAPI.
4640
4641- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4642 can install in host declarations.
4643
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4644 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4645
4646- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4647 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4648 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4649 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4650 comments)!
4651
4652- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4653
6ed7a93d
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4654- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4655 request for help on this with patches!
4656
4657- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4658 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4659 lost, they never reconnect.
4660
4661- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4662 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4663
4664- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4665 dump.
4666
4667- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4668 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4669 catching this one.
4670
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4671 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4672
4673- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4674 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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4675 lease renewal time.
4676
4677- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4678 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4679 declared without a key.
4680
4681- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4682
4683- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4684 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4685
4686- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4687 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4688 determine the maximum size of the response.
4689
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4690 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4691
359b023e
TL
4692- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4693 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4694
592d8153
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4695- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4696 RENEWING client.
4697
4698- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4699
4700- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4701 using memcmp().
4702
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4703 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4704
4705- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4706 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4707 pointing this out.
4708
4709- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4710 exit.
4711
4712- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4713
4714- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4715 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.