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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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98bf1607 12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 13The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
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14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.3
43
44! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
45 Without out this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
46 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
317d1182 47 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
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48 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
49 CVE:
50
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51 Changes since 4.2.2
52
53- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
54 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
55 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
56 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
57
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58- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
59 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
60
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61- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
62 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
63
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64- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
65 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66
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67 Changes since 4.2.1
68
69! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
70 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
71 interfaces with the OS.
72 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
73 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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74
75- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
76 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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77
78- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
79 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
80 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
81 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
82 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
83 in v6 mode at configure time.
84 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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85
86- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
87 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
88 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 89 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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90
91- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
92 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
93 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
94 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 95 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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97- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
98 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
99 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
100 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 101 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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103- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
104 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
105 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
106 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 107 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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109- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
110 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 111 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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113- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
114 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
115 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
116 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 117 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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119- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
120 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
121 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
122
123- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
124 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
125 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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126
127- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
128 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
129 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
130 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
131 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
132 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
bea17697 133
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134- Documentation fixes
135 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
136 responses to the all-ones address.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
138 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
139
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140- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
141 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
142 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
143 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
144
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145- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
146 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
147
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148- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
149 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
150 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
151
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152- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
153 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
154 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
155 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
156 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
157 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
158 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
159 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
160 enable this except for testing purposes.
161 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
162 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
163
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164- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
165 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
166
167- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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169- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
170 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
171 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
172 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
173 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
174 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
175
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176- Client Script fixes
177 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
178 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
179 the domain search address is link local.
180 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
181 case of the default router information being changed without the address
182 being changed.
183
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184- Documentation cleanup
185 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
186
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187- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
188 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
189
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190- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
191 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
192 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
193 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
194
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195- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
196 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
197 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
198
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199- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
200 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
201
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202- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
203 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
204 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
205 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
206 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
207 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
208
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209- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
210 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
211 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
212 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
213 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
214 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
215 in site.h then server will be terminated
216 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
217
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218! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
219 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
220 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
221 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
222 One CVE number for each class of packet.
223 CVE-2011-2748
224 CVE-2011-2749
225
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226 Changes since 4.2.0
227
228- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
229 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
230 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
231 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
232 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
233 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
234
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235- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
236 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
237 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
238 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
239 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
240 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
241
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242- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
243 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
244 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
245
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246- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
247 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
248 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
249 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
250
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251- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
252 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
253
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254- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
255 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
256 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
257
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258- Minor code fixes
259 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
260 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
261 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
262 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
263 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
264 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
265 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
266 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
267 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
268 Thanks to Martin Pala.
269 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
270 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
271
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272- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
273
274- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
275 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
276
277- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
278 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
279
280- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
281 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
282
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283- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
284 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
285 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
286
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287- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
288 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
289
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290- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
291 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
292 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
293
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294- Fixes to lease input and output.
295 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
296 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
297 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
298 characters.
299 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
300 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
301
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302- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
303 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
304 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
305 at Red Hat.
306 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
307 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
308 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
309 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
310
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311- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
312 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
313 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
314 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
315
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316! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
317 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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318 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
319 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
320
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321- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
322 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
323 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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325- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
326 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
327 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
328 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
329 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
330
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331- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
332 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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333 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
334 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
335 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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337! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
338 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
339 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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340 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
341 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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342 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
343
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344- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
345 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
346 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
347
348- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
349 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
350 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
351
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352- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
353 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
354 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
355
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356- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
357 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
358 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
359 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
360 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
361
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362- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
363 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
364 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
365 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
366
c8b189f1 367! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 368 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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369 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
370 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 371 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
09afca0d 372 and reset its timeout value.
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373 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
374
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375- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
376 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
377 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
378 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
379
380 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
381 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
382 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
383
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384- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
385 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
386 when removing the ddns information.
387 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
388
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389- Some fixes for LDAP
390 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
391 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
392 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
393
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394- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
395 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
396
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397 Changes since 4.2.0b2
398
399- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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401 Changes since 4.2.0b1
402
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403- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
404 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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406! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
407 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 408 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 409 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
1943bbf8 410
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411- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
412
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413- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
414 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
415 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
416 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
417 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
418
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419- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
420 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
421 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
422 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
423 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
424
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425- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
426
600ee619 427- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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428 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
429
430- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
431 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
432 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
433 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
434 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
435 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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437- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
438 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
439
440 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
441 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
442
443 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
444 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
445
446 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
447 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
448
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449 Changes since 4.2.0a2
450
451- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
452 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
453
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454- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
455 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
456 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 457 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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459- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
460 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
461 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
462 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
463 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
464 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
465 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
466 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
467 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
468
3c941d42 469 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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471- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
472 is no longer truncated to one octet.
473
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474- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
475
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476- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
477 reflect support for prefix delegation.
478
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479- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
480
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481- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
482 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
483 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
484 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
485 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
486 entry for each lease.
487
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488- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
489
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490 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
491
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492- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
493 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 494 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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496- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
497 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
498 Cantrell at Red Hat.
499
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500- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
501 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
502
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503- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
504
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505- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
506 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
507 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
508 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
509 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
510 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
511
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512- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
513 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
514 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
515 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
516 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
517 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
518 FQDN options by default).
519
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520- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
521 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
522 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
523 determined lease time) are omitted.
524
98bf1607 525- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 526 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 527 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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528
529- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
530 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
531 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
532
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533 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
534
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535- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
536
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537- Validate the argument to the -p option.
538
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539- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
540 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
541 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
542 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
543 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
544
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545- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
546
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547- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
548 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
549 had been deleted from configuration.
550
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551- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
552 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 553 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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554 were being ignored.
555
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556- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
557
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558- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
559 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
560 Nordahl.
561
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562- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
563 dhcpv6 disabled.
564
8d7dca58 565- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 566 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 567
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568- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
569 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
570
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571- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
572 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
573 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
574
575- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
576 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
577 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
578 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
579 fewer system calls.
580
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581- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
582 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
583 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
584 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
585 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
586 Christof Chen.
587
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588- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
589 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
590 and in normal state.
591
592- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
593 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
594
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595- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
596
597- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
598 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
599 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
600
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601- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
602 rather than restarting the listener.
603
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604- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
605 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
606
607- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
608 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
609 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
610
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611- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
612 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
613 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
614 timeouts).
615
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616- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
617 in failover state records.
618
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619! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
620 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
621 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 622 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 623
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624- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
625 processing a DHCPINFORM.
626
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627- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
628 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
629 last option definition is used.
630
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631- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
632 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
633 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
634
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635- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
636 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
637
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638- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
639 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
640 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
641 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
642 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
643 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
644
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645- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
646 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
647 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
648 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
649
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650! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
651 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 652
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653- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
654 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
655
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656- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
657 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
658 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
659 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
660 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 661 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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662 configuration.
663
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664- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
665 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
666
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667- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
668 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
669 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
670 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
671
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672- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
673 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
674 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
675 was always properly set.
676
adbef119 677 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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678
679- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
680 be recognized.
61d75ea2 681
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682 Changes since 4.1.0a2
683
684- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
685 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
686 "abandoned".
687
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688- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
689
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690- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
691 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
692
693- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
694 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
695
696- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 697 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 698
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699- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
700
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701- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
702 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
703 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
704 in future releases.
705
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706- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
707 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
708
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709- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
710 'dhclient -6' support.
711
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712- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
713 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
714 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
715 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
716
7d6180be 717 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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718
719- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
720
51e7687f
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721- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
722
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723- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
724 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
725 only the latter. Fixed.
726
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727- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
728
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729- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
730 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
731
61220a00
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732- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
733
c40e954c
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734- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
735
63971a83
DH
736- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
737 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
738 --enable-early-chroot.
739
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740- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
741 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
742
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743- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
744 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
745 parameter.
746
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747- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
748 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
749
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750- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
751 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
752
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753- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
754
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755- Merged IA_XX related structures.
756
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757- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
758
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759- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
760
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761- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
762 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
763 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
764
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765- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
766 support.
767
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768- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
769 repaired.
770
80097764
FD
771- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
772
ffbaa880
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773- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
774
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775- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
776 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
777
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778- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
779 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
780
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781- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
782 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
783
784- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
785 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
786 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
787 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
788 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
789 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
790 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
791 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
792 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
793 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
794 shared-network.
795
796- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
797 configured option values.
798
799- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
800 support class statements.
801
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802- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
803 selection were repaired.
804
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805- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
806 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
807 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
808 by the OS.
809
810- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
811 address.
812
813- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
814 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
815
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816- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
817
818- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
819
820- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
821 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
822
01a54c17 823 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 824
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825- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
826
4cafb815 827- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 828 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 829
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830- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
831 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
832 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
833
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834- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
835 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
836
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837- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
838
0674055a
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839- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
840 reserved IDs avoided).
841
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842- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
843
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844- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
845 carries a rapid-commit option.
846
96b620e5
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847- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
848 an empty active lease.
849
be62cf06
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850- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
851
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852- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
853 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
854 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
855 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
856
857- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
858
859- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
860 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
861 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
862 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
863 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
864 Christof Chen.
865
866 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
867
868- DHCP now builds on AIX.
869
870- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
871 config file but -6 is not specified.
872
873- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
874
875- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
876 be more helpful.
877
878- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
879 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
880 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
881
882- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
883 was repaired.
884
885- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
886 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
887 been repaired.
888
889- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
890 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
891 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
892
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893- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
894 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
895
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896- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
897 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
898 IPv4 address.
899
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900- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
901 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
902 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
903 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
904 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
905
906- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
907 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
908 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
909
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910- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
911
c4d29896
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912- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
913
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914- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
915 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
916 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
917 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
918 unnecessary logging.
919
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920- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
921 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
922
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923- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
924 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
925 is incompatible is printed.
926
927- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
928 a previously undefined option code.
929
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930- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
931 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
932
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933- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
934 than the year 2000.
935
e2cfde76
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936- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
937
cabdb9b1
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938- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
939
5d89d60f
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940- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
941
61d75ea2
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942 Changes since 4.0.0b3
943
944- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
945 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
946 configuration.
76db44f9 947
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948- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
949 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
950
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951- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
952 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
953 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 954
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955- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
956 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
957 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
958 a requested address.
959
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960- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
961 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
962 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
963 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
964
965- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
966 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
967 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
968 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
969
b024480e
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970- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
971 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
972 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
973
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974- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
975 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
976
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977- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
978
83835822
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979- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
980 codes through some conditions.
981
c54db708
FD
982- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
983 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
984
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985- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
986 seemingly random values.
987
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988- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
989
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990- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
991 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
992 one ever has.
993
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994- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
995 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
996 to a REQUEST.
997
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998- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
999 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1000 level.
1001
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1002 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1003
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1004- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1005
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1006- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1007 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1008 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1009 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1010 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1011
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1012- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1013 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1014 new address.
1015
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1016 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1017
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1018- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1019 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1020 simultaneously on a single interface.
1021
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1022- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1023 of service under unusual server configurations
1024
1025- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1026
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1027- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1028 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1029
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1030- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1031 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1032 on every pool rebalance run.
1033
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1034- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1035 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1036
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1037- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1038 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1039
ab3a540f 1040 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1041
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1042- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1043 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1044
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1045- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1046 point out the problem.
1047
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1048- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1049 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1050 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1051
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1052- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1053 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1054
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1055- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1056 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1057 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1058
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1059- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1060
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1061- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1062 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1063
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1064- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1065 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1066 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1067 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1068
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1069- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1070
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1071- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1072 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1073 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1074 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1075 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1076
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1077- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1078
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1079 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1080
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1081- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1082 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1083
763cba6b 1084- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1085
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1086- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1087 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1088 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1089
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1090- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1091
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1092- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1093 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1094
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1095- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1096 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1097 loaded from persistent storage.
1098
45d545f0 1099- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1100 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1101 necessary.
1102
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1103- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1104 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1105 rapid-commit option.
1106
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1107- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1108 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1109
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1110 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1111
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1112- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1113 and fix.
1114
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1115- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1116
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1117- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1118
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1119- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1120 for when loading configuration.
1121
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1122- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1123 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1124 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1125
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1126- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1127 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1128 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1129 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1130
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1131- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1132
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1133- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1134 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1135
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1136- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1137
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1138- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1139
1140- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1141 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1142
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1143- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1144 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1145
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1146- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1147
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1148- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1149 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1150
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1151 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1152
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1153- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1154
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1155- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1156 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1157
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1158- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1159
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1160- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1161 initialized.
1162
1163- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1164
1165- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1166 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1167
1168- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 1169
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1170- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1171
1172- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1173 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1174
1175- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1176
8ea19a71 1177- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1178 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1179
1180- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1181 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1182
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1183- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1184
1185- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1186
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1187- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1188
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1189 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1190
1191- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1192 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1193 no support currently for both.
1194
1195- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1196 IAADDR option.
1197
1198- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1199 options.
1200
1201- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1202
1203- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1204 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1205
1206- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1207 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1208 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1209
1210- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1211 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1212
1213- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1214 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1215 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1216 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1217 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1218 differently, they both use the same code here).
1219
1220- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1221 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1222 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1223
1224- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1225
1226- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1227 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1228 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1229 it should not intercept.
1230
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1231 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1232
1233- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1234 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1235 between primary and secondary.
1236
1237- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1238 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1239 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1240
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1241- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1242
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1243- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1244 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1245 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1246 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1247 or REQUEST messages.
1248
1249- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1250 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1251
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1252- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1253
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1254 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1255
1256- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1257 failover protected subnets was removed.
1258
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1259 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1260
1261- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1262 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1263 odd number of leases).
1264
1265- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1266 rebalance run, and one after.
1267
1268- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1269 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1270 processing these messages.
1271
fe5b0fdd 1272 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1273
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1274- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1275 objects.
1276
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1277- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1278 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1279 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1280 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1281 at Allianz.
1282
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1283- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1284 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1285
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1286- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1287 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1288
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1289- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1290 caused the server to abort.
1291
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1292- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1293 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1294 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1295
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1296- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1297 by empty spaces would not get included.
1298
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1299- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1300 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1301
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1302- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1303 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1304
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1305- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1306 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1307
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1308- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1309 on the parameter request list.
1310
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1311 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1312
1313- Some spelling fixes.
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1315 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1316
1317- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1318 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1319
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1320- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1321 domain-search option syntax.
1322
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1323 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1324
1325- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1326 hash table was repaired.
1327
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1328- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1329 entering normal state.
1330
1331- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1332 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1333 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1334
1335- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1336 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 1337
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1338- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1339 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1340 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1341 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1342
45d545f0 1343- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1344 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1345 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1346 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1347 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1348 to their needs.
1349
1350- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1351 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1352 run will attempt balance.
1353
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1354- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1355
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1356 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1357
1358- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1359 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1360 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1361 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1362
98bd7ca0 1363- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1364 was introduced.
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1365
1366- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1367 via OMAPI.
1368
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1369- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1370 the protocol draft.
1371
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1372- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1373 one does not already exist on the system.
1374
b43c87ad 1375- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1376
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1377- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1378 matches RFC 3074.
1379
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1380- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1381 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1382 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1383
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1384- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1385 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1386 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1387
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1388- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1389 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1390 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1391 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1392
1393- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1394 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1395 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1396 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1397
f7fdb216 1398- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1399 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1400 DHCPv6 support.
1401
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1402- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1403 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1404 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1405
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1406- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1407 have been incorporated.
1408
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1409- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1410 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1411 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1412 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1413 that belong to the peer in need.
1414
1415- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1416 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1417
1418- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1419 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1420 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1421
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1422- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1423 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1424
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1425- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1426 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1427 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1428 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1429 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1430
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1431- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1432 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1433 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1434 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1435
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1436- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1437 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1438 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1439 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1440 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1441 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1442 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1443 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1444 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1445
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1446- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1447 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1448
41e45067 1449- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1450 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1451 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1452 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1453
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1454- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1455 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1456 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1457 hardware and funding the development.
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1459- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1460 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1461 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1462 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1463 via Robin Breathe.
1464
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1465- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1466 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1467 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1468 from Christof Chen.
1469
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1470- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1471 formally supported.
1472
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1473 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1474
1475- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1476 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1477
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1478 Changes since 3.0.5
1479
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1480- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1481 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1482 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1483 they actually received.
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1484
1485- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1486
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1487- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1488 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1489 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1490 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1491
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1492- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1493
d69fb6a8 1494- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1495 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1496
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1497- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1498 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1499 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1500 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1501 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1502 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1503 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1504 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1505
1506- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1507 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1508 'file' field.
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1510- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1511 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1512
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1513- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1514 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1515 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1516
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1517- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1518 from Chris Wagner.
1519
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1520- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1521 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1522 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1523
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1524- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1525 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1526 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1527 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1528 was set.
1529
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1530- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1531 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1532
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1533- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1534 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1535 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1536 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1537 active ones.
1538
02428754 1539 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1540
901306d5 1541- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1542 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1543 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1544 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1545 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1546
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1547- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1548 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1549
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1550 Changes since 3.0.4
1551
1552- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1553 scopes are actually global has been added.
1554
1555- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1556 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1557 known to be damaging.
1558
1559- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1560 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1561 balancing).
1562
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1563- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1564 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1565 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1566
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1567- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1568 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1569 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1570
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1571- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1572 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1573 more clear now.
1574
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1575- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1576 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1577 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1578 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1579 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1580 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1582- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1583 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1584
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1585- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1586 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1587 made possible.
1588
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1589- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1590 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1591 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1592
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1593- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1594 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1595
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1596- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1597 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1598 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1599
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1600- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1601 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1602 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1603 value with the later configured value).
1604
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1605- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1606 have been named and documented.
1607
1608- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1609 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1610 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1611 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1612 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1613 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1614 write new output.
1615
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1616 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1617
1618- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1619 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1620
1621 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1622
1623- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1624 mailing list.
1625
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1626 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1627
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1629 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1630
1631- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1632 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1633
1634- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1635 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1636 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1637 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1638
1639- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1640 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1641 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1642 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1643 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1644 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1645 transition (properly).
1646
1647- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1648
1649 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1650
1651- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1652 STDIN after reading one line.
1653
1654- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1655 descriptor it opened twice.
1656
1657- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1658 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1659 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1660
1661 Changes since 3.0.3
1662
1663- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1664 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1665 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1666
1667- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1668 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1669 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1670
1671- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1672 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1673 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1674 leases to allocate.
1675
1676- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1677 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1678 than the entire block of them.
1679
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1680! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1681 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1682 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1683 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1684 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1685 to a patch from infamous42md.
1686
1687! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1688 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1689 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1690 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1691 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1692 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1693
1694- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1695 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1696 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1697
1698- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1699 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1700
1701- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1702 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1703 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1704 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1705 transitional states.
1706
1707- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1708 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1709 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1710
1711- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1712 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1713 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1714
1715- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1716 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1717
1718- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1719 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1720
1721- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1722 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1723 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1724
1725- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1726 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1727
1728- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1729 repaired.
1730
1731- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1732 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1733 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1734 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1735
1736- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1737 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1738 data.
1739
1740- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1741 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1742 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1743 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1744 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1745
1746- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1747 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1748 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1749 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1750 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1751
1752- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1753 has been repaired.
1754
1755- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1756 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1757 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1758 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1759 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1760
1761- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1762 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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1765 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1766 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1767 move to 3.[01].x.
1768
1769- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1770 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1771
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1772 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1773
1774- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1775 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1776
1777- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1778 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1779 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1780 workaround.
1781
1782 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1783
1784- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1785 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1786
1787 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1788
1789- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1790 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1791 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1792
1793- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1794 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1795 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1796
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1797 Changes since 3.0.2
1798
1799- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
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1801 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1802
1803- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1804 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1805 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1806 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1807 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1808
1809- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1810 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1811 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1812
1813- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1814 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1815 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1816
1817- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1818 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1819 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1820 Peter Poeml.
1821
1822- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1823 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1824
1825- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1826 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1827 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1828 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1829 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1830 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1831
1832- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1833 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1834 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1835 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1836
1837- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1838 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1839 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1840 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1841
1842- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1843 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1844
1845- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1846 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1847 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1848
1849- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1850 7 bytes, and failover.
1851
1852- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1853 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1854 at Red Hat.
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1855
1856- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1857 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1858 should work better.
1859
1860- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1861 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1862 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1863
1864- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1865 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1866 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1867
1868 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1869
1870- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1871 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1872
1873 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1874
45d545f0 1875- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1876 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1877 overloading. This was repaired.
1878
1879- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1880 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1881 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1882 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1883 three chunks to fit.
1884
1885- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1886 were repaired.
1887
1888- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1889 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1890 leak).
1891
1892 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1893
1894- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1895 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1896
1897 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1898
1899- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1900
1901 Changes since 3.0.1
1902
1903- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1904 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1905 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1906
1907- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1908 name was not provided by the server.
1909
1910- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1911 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1912
1913- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1914 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1915
1916- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1917 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1918
1919- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1920
1921- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1922
1923- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1924 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1925 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1926 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1927 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1928
1929- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1930 the configuration be globally scoped.
1931
1932- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1933 Farkas.
1934
1935- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1936 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1937
1938- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1939 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1940
1941- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1942 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1943
1944- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1945 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1946 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1947 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1948
1949- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1950 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1951 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1952 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1953
1954- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1955 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1956 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1957
1958- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1959
1960- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1961 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1962 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1963
1964- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1965 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1966 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1967 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1968 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1969
1970- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1971 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1972
1973- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1974 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1975
1976- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1977 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1978 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1979 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1980
1981- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1982 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1983
1984- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1985 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1986 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1987
1988- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1989 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1990 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1991 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1992 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1993 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1994
1995- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1996 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1997 Infoblox.
1998
1999- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2000
2001- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2002 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2003 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2004 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2005 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2006 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2007 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2008
2009- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2010 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2011 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2012
2013- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2014 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2015 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2016
2017- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2018
2019 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2020
2021- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2022 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2023 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2024 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2025 systems either.
2026
2027- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2028
2029- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2030 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2031 is false.
2032
2033- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2034 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2035
2036- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2037
2038 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2039
2040! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2041 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2042 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2043 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2044 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2045 both finding and solving the problem.
2046
2047! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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2049 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2050 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2051 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2052 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2053 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2054 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2055 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2056 published version of ISC DHCP.
2057
2058- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2059
2060- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2061
2062 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2063
2064- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2065 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2066 Richard Hirst.
2067
2068- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2069 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2070 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2071
2072- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2073
2074- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2075 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2076 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2077 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2078
2079- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2080 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2081
2082- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2083 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2084
2085- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2086
2087 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2088
2089- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2090 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2091
2092- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2093 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2094 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2095
2096- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2097 by name was fixed.
2098
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2100 longer result in error.
2101
2102- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2103
2104- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2105 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2106 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2107
2108- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2109 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2110
2111- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2112 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2113 Blapp.
2114
2115- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2116 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2117 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2118 Martin Blapp.
2119
2120- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2121 expiry times in failover configurations.
2122
2123- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2124 Steve G.
2125
2126- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2127 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2128
2129- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2130 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2131 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2132 now "unknown-144".
2133
2134- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2135 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2136
2137 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2138
2139- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2140
2141- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2142 not be bash.
2143
2144- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2145
2146- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2147 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2148 that errored before will now work properly.
2149
2150- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2151 names was repaired.
2152
2153- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2154 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2155 configuration file.
2156
2157- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2158 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2159
2160- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2161 error rather than a null dereference.
2162
2163 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2164
2165- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2166
2167- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2168
2169- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2170 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2171
2172- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2173
2174- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2175
2176- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2177 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2178 self-corrupting lease databases.
2179
2180- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2181
2182- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2183 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2184
2185- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2186
2187- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2188
2189- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2190 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2191 Ling Gou.
2192
2193- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2194 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2195
2196- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2197 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2198 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2199
2200- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2201 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2202
2203 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2204
2205- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2206 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2207
2208- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2209
2210- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2211 a memory leak.
2212
2213- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2214 script.
2215
2216- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2217
2218- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2219
2220- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2221
2222- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2223
2224- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2225
2226- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2227
2228- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2229
2230- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2231
2232- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2233
2234- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2235
2236- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2237
2238- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2239
2240 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2241
2242- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2243 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2244 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2245
2246 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2247
2248- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2249 to be renewed.
2250
2251- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2252 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2253
2254- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2255 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2256
2257- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2258 that two permit lists matched.
2259
2260- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2261 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2262
2263- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2264
2265- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2266 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2267
2268- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2269
2270- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2271
2272- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2273 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2274 going to update its A record.
2275
2276- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2277 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2278 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2279 DNS server.
2280
2281- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2282
2283- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2284
2285- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2286 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2287 NetBSD project).
2288
2289- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2290 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2291
2292- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2293 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2294
2295- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2296
2297- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2298
2299- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2300 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2301 failover protocol standard.
2302
2303- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2304 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2305 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2306
2307- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2308 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2309 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2310 do so.
2311
2312- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2313
2314 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2315
2316- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2317
2318- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2319 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2320
2321- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2322 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2323
2324- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2325 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2326 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2327
2328- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2329 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2330 network, merge the two pools.
2331
2332- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2333 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2334 fix this bug.
2335
2336 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2337
2338- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2339 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2340
2341- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2342 the same case.
2343
2344- Additional documentation.
2345
2346- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2347 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2348
2349 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2350
2351- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2352- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2353
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2355
2356- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2357 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2358 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2359 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2360 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2361
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2363
2364- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2365 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2366 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2367 wasn't the one that removed it.
2368
2369- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2370 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2371 were not configured.
2372
2373- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2374
2375- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2376 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2377 routing information.
2378
2379- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2380 request being sent.
2381
2382- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2383 done.
2384
2385- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2386 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2387 were pending.
2388
2389- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2390 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2391 problems with failover.
2392
2393- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2394 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2395 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2396
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2398
2399- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2400 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2401
2402- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2403 no object is open, it dumps core.
2404
2405- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2406
2407- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2408
2409- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2410
2411- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2412 a host object attribute with a null value.
2413
2414 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2415
2416- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2417
2418- Fix an obscure core dump.
2419
2420- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2421 when crucial information is left out.
2422
2423- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2424
2425- Documentation updates.
2426
2427 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2428
2429- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2430
2431- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2432 structure wasn't zeroed.
2433
2434- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2435 incorrectly.
2436
2437- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2438 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2439 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2440 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2441 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2442 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2443 restarted.
2444
2445 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2446
2447- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2448 in failover-enabled pools.
2449
2450- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2451 declarations).
2452
2453- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2454 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2455
2456- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2457 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2458
2459- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2460
2461- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2462 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2463
2464- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2465
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2467
2468- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2469
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2471
2472- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2473
2474- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2475
2476- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2477
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2479
2480- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2481 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2482 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2483
2484- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2485 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2486 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2487 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2488 string.
2489
2490- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2491
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2492 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2493
2494- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2495 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2496
2497- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2498 malformed packets.
2499
2500- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2501
2502- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2503 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2504 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2505
2506- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2507
2508- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2509
2510- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2511
2512- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2513 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2514
2515- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2516 tcp connections from being played back.
2517
2518- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2519 on exit.
2520
2521- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2522
2523- Add some configurability to the build system.
2524
2525- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2526
2527- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2528 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2529 hadn't been noticed until now.
2530
2531 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2532
2533- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2534 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2535
2536- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2537 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2538 conformant, but also didn't work).
2539
2540- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2541 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2542
2543- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2544 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2545
2546- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2547 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2548
2549- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2550 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2551
2552- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2553 doing failover.
2554
2555- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2556 running on alpha processors.
2557
2558- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2559 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2560
2561- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2562
2563- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2564
2565- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2566 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2567
2568- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2569
2570- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2571 actually named (key names are domain names).
2572
2573- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2574
2575- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2576 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2577
2578- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2579 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2580
2581- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2582 statements.
2583
2584- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2585 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2586
2587- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2588 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2589 operating.
2590
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2592
2593- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2594 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2595 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2596 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2597
2598- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2599 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2600
2601- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2602
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2604
2605- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2606 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2607
2608- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2609 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2610 to the chain.
2611
2612- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2613
2614- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2615
2616- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2617
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2619 attribute values in omshell.
2620
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2622
2623- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2624
2625 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2626
2627- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2628 DHCPDECLINE.
2629
2630- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2631
2632- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2633 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2634 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2635
2636- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2637
2638- Documentation fixes.
2639
2640- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2641 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2642
2643- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2644 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2645
2646- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2647
2648- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2649
2650- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2651 case-insensitive.
2652
2653- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2654
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2657 consistently.
2658
2659- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2660 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2661
2662- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2663
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2665
2666- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2667 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2668 result of duplicate leases.
2669
2670- Document OMAPI server objects.
2671
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2673
2674- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2675 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2676
2677- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2678 core dumps.
2679
2680- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2681 Friedrich.
2682
2683- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2684
2685 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2686
2687- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2688 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2690 billing class code.
2691
2692- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2693 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2694
2695- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2696 trace file.
2697
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2700- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2701 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2702 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2703 e.g., Digital Unix.
2704
2705- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2706 when no error had occurred.
2707
2708- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2709 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2710 non-communicating state.
2711
2712- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2713
2714- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2715 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2716 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2717
2718- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2719 when the client lease expired.
2720
2721- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2722 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2723 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2724 in testing.
2725
2726- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2727 the command line, it would fail.
2728
2729- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2730 user impact).
2731
2732- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2733
2734- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2735 they're executable.
2736
2737 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2739- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2740 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2741 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2742 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2743
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2744- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2745 Transmeta.
2746
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2747- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2748 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2749 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2750 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2751
2752- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2753 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2754
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2756
2757- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2758 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2759
2760- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2761
2762- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2763
2764- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2765
2766- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2767
2768- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2769
2770- Update some parts of the README file.
2771
2772- Support GCC on SCO.
2773
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2775
2776- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2777 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2778
2779- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2780 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2781 unbill the old class.
2782
2783- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2784 process the state transition immediately.
2785
2786- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2787 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2788
2789- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2790
2791- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2792
2793- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2794
2795- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2796
2797- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2798 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2799 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2800
2801- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2802 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2803
2804- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2805 lease file.
2806
2807- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2808
2809- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2812
2813- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2814 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2815
2816- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2817
adbef119 2818 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2819
2820- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2821
adbef119 2822 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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2823
2824- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2825
2826- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2827 pl19.
2828
2829- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2830 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2831 past the regression test.
2832
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2834
2835- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2836 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2837
2838- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2839 DHCPREQUEST.
2840
2841- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2842
2843- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2844
2845- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2846
adbef119 2847 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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2849- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2850 (Damien Neil)
2851
2852- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2853 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2854
2855- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2856 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2857 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2858
2859- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2860 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2861 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2862 message.
2863
2864- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2865 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2866 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2867
98311e4b 2868- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2869 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2870 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2871 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2872 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2873 this way will work.
2874
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2875- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2876
2877- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2878 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2879 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2880 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2881
2882 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2883
2884 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2885
2886- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2887 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2888 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2889
2890- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2891 Hermann Lauer.
2892
2893- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2894 messages.
2895
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2896- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2897 it contained quoted strings.
2898
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2899 ** there was no pl17 **
2900
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2903- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2904 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2905 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2906 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2907 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2908 tracking down memory leaks.
2909
2910- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2911 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2912 Solaris.
2913
2914- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2915 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2916 corruption and core dumps.
2917
2918- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2919 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2920
2921- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2922
2923- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2924 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2925
2926- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2927 name and version to standard output.
2928
2929- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2930
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2931- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2932 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2933
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2934- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2935
2936- Lots of documentation updates.
2937
2938- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2939 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2940
2941- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2942
2943- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2944 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2945
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2947
2948- Some documentation tweaks.
2949
2950- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2951
2952- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2953
2954- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2955 agent options into them.
2956
2957- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2958
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2959- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2960 options.
2961
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2963
2964- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2965 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2966 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2967 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2968 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2969
2970- Fix up documentation.
2971
2972- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2973 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2974
2975- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2976
2977- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2978
2979- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2980 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2981 practical use otherwise.
2982
2983- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2984 for debugging.
2985
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2987
2988- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2989 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2990 dump on some systems.
2991
2992- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2993 option.
2994
2995- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2996 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2997
2998- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2999 that were not printing enough information.
3000
3001- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3002 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3003
3004- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3005 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3006 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3007 were answering.
3008
3009- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3010 the transition.
3011
3012
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3014
3015- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3016
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3017 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3018
3019- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3020 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3021 representation from working correctly.
3022
3023- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3024 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3025 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3026 could spin.
3027
3028- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3029 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3030
3031- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3032 interface name on the command line.
3033
3034- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3035 client state.
3036
3037- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3038 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3039 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3040 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3041 added by Ted Lemon.
3042
3043- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3044 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3045
3046- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3047 end option.
3048
3049- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3050 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3051 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3052
3053- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3054 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3055 face of a null hardware address on input.
3056
3057- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3058 specified unqualified.
3059
3060- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3061 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3062
3063- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3064 RFC.
3065
3066- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3067
3068- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3069
3070- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3071 it works.
3072
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3073 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3074
3075- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3076 to CVS.
3077
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3078 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3079
3080- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3081
3082- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3083 in patchlevel 9.
3084
3085- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3086 options at renewal time.
3087
3088- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3089 configuration language.
3090
3091- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3092
3093- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3094 done when no client hostname was received.
3095
3096- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3097
3098- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3099 the DHCP option space.
3100
3101- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3102
3103- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3104 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3105
3106- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3107 silently dropped.
3108
3109- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3110 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3111
3112- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3113 will be correctly updated.
3114
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3115 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3116
3117- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3118 bounds-checking.
3119
3120 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3121
3122- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3123
3922772a 3124 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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3126- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3127 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3128 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3129
3130- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3131 option.
3132
3133- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3134 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3135 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3136 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3137 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3138 meaningfully.
3139
3140- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3141 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3142 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3143
3144- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3145 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3146 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3147 this one down!
3148
3149- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3150 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3151 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3152 down and fixing this problem.
3153
3154 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3155
0f6045f8
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3156- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3157 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3158
3159- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3160 environment.
3161
3162- Fix suffix operator.
3163
3164- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3165
3166- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3167 connection code.
3168
3169- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3170
3171- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3172
3173- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3174 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3175
3176- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3177
3178- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3179
3180- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3181 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3182
3183- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3184 spawn with.
3185
3186- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3187 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3188
3189- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3190 for OMAPI.
3191
3192- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3193 can install in host declarations.
3194
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3195 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3196
3197- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3198 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3199 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3200 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3201 comments)!
3202
3203- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3204
6ed7a93d
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3205- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3206 request for help on this with patches!
3207
3208- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3209 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3210 lost, they never reconnect.
3211
3212- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3213 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3214
3215- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3216 dump.
3217
3218- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3219 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3220 catching this one.
3221
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3222 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3223
3224- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3225 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3226 lease renewal time.
3227
3228- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3229 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3230 declared without a key.
3231
3232- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3233
3234- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3235 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3236
3237- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3238 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3239 determine the maximum size of the response.
3240
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3241 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3242
359b023e
TL
3243- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3244 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3245
592d8153
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3246- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3247 RENEWING client.
3248
3249- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3250
3251- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3252 using memcmp().
3253
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3254 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3255
3256- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3257 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3258 pointing this out.
3259
3260- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3261 exit.
3262
3263- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3264
3265- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3266 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.