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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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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
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 4.2.0
43
3ecaf2f2 44- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 address in IPv4 mode. This allows
7900af4b 45 IPv4 options which contain IPv6 address to be specified. For example
3ecaf2f2 46 the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
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48 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
49 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
50 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
51
52
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53- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
54 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
55 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
56 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
57 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
58 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
59
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60- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
61 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
62 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
63 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
64 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
65 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
66
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67- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
68 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
69 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
70
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71- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
72 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
73 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
74 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
75
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76- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
77 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
78
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79- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
80 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
81 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
82
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83- Minor code fixes
84 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
85 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
86 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
87 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
88 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
89 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
90 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
91 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
92 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
93 Thanks to Martin Pala.
94 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
95 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
96
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97- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
98
99- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
100 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
101
102- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
103 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
104
105- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
106 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
107
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108- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
109 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
110 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
111
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112- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
113 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
114
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115- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
116 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
117 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
118
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119- Fixes to lease input and output.
120 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
121 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
122 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
123 characters.
124 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
125 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
126
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127- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
128 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
129 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
130 at Red Hat.
131 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
132 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
133 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
134 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
135
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136- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
137 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
138 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
139 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
140
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141! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
142 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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143 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
144 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
145
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146- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
147 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
148 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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150- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
151 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
152 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
153 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
154 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
155
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156- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
157 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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158 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
159 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
160 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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162! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
163 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
164 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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165 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
166 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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167 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
168
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169- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
170 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
171 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
172
173- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
174 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
175 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
176
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177- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
178 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
179 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
180
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181- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
182 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
183 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
184 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
185 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
186
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187- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
188 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
189 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
190 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
191
c8b189f1 192! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 193 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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194 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
195 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 196 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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197 and reset it's timeout value.
198 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
199
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200 Changes since 4.2.0b2
201
202- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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204 Changes since 4.2.0b1
205
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206- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
207 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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209! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
210 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 211 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 212 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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214- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
215
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216- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
217 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
218 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
219 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
220 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
221
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222- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
223 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
224 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
225 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
226 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
227
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228- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
229
600ee619 230- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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231 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
232
233- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
234 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
235 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
236 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
237 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
238 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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240- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
241 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
242
243 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
244 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
245
246 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
247 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
248
249 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
250 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
251
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252 Changes since 4.2.0a2
253
254- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
255 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
256
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257- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
258 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
259 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 260 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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262- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
263 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
264 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
265 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
266 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
267 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
268 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
269 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
270 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
271
3c941d42 272 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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273
274- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
275 is no longer truncated to one octet.
276
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277- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
278
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279- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
280 reflect support for prefix delegation.
281
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282- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
283
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284- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
285 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
286 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
287 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
288 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
289 entry for each lease.
290
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291- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
292
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293 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
294
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295- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
296 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 297 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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299- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
300 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
301 Cantrell at Red Hat.
302
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303- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
304 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
305
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306- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
307
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308- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
309 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
310 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
311 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
312 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
313 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
314
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315- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
316 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
317 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
318 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
319 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
320 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
321 FQDN options by default).
322
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323- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
324 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
325 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
326 determined lease time) are omitted.
327
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328- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
329 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
330 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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332- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
333 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
334 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
335
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336 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
337
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338- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
339
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340- Validate the argument to the -p option.
341
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342- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
343 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
344 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
345 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
346 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
347
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348- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
349
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350- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
351 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
352 had been deleted from configuration.
353
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354- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
355 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 356 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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357 were being ignored.
358
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359- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
360
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361- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
362 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
363 Nordahl.
364
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365- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
366 dhcpv6 disabled.
367
8d7dca58 368- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 369 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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371- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
372 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
373
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374- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
375 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
376 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
377
378- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
379 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
380 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
381 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
382 fewer system calls.
383
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384- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
385 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
386 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
387 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
388 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
389 Christof Chen.
390
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391- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
392 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
393 and in normal state.
394
395- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
396 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
397
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398- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
399
400- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
401 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
402 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
403
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404- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
405 rather than restarting the listener.
406
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407- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
408 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
409
410- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
411 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
412 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
413
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414- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
415 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
416 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
417 timeouts).
418
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419- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
420 in failover state records.
421
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422! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
423 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
424 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 425 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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427- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
428 processing a DHCPINFORM.
429
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430- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
431 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
432 last option definition is used.
433
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434- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
435 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
436 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
437
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438- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
439 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
440
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441- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
442 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
443 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
444 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
445 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
446 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
447
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448- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
449 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
450 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
451 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
452
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453! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
454 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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456- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
457 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
458
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459- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
460 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
461 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
462 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
463 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 464 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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465 configuration.
466
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467- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
468 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
469
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470- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
471 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
472 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
473 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
474
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475- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
476 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
477 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
478 was always properly set.
479
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482- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
483 be recognized.
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485 Changes since 4.1.0a2
486
487- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
488 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
489 "abandoned".
490
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491- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
492
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493- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
494 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
495
496- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
497 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
498
499- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 500 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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502- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
503
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504- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
505 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
506 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
507 in future releases.
508
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509- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
510 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
511
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512- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
513 'dhclient -6' support.
514
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515- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
516 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
517 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
518 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
519
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521
522- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
523
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524- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
525
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526- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
527 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
528 only the latter. Fixed.
529
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530- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
531
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532- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
533 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
534
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535- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
536
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537- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
538
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539- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
540 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
541 --enable-early-chroot.
542
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543- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
544 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
545
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546- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
547 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
548 parameter.
549
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550- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
551 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
552
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553- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
554 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
555
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556- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
557
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558- Merged IA_XX related structures.
559
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560- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
561
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562- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
563
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564- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
565 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
566 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
567
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568- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
569 support.
570
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571- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
572 repaired.
573
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574- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
575
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576- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
577
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578- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
579 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
580
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581- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
582 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
583
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584- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
585 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
586
587- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
588 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
589 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
590 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
591 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
592 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
593 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
594 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
595 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
596 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
597 shared-network.
598
599- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
600 configured option values.
601
602- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
603 support class statements.
604
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605- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
606 selection were repaired.
607
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608- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
609 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
610 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
611 by the OS.
612
613- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
614 address.
615
616- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
617 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
618
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619- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
620
621- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
622
623- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
624 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
625
01a54c17 626 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 627
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628- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
629
4cafb815 630- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 631 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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633- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
634 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
635 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
636
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637- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
638 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
639
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640- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
641
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642- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
643 reserved IDs avoided).
644
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645- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
646
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647- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
648 carries a rapid-commit option.
649
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650- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
651 an empty active lease.
652
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653- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
654
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655- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
656 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
657 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
658 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
659
660- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
661
662- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
663 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
664 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
665 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
666 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
667 Christof Chen.
668
669 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
670
671- DHCP now builds on AIX.
672
673- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
674 config file but -6 is not specified.
675
676- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
677
678- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
679 be more helpful.
680
681- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
682 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
683 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
684
685- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
686 was repaired.
687
688- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
689 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
690 been repaired.
691
692- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
693 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
694 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
695
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696- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
697 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
698
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699- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
700 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
701 IPv4 address.
702
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703- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
704 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
705 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
706 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
707 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
708
709- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
710 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
711 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
712
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713- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
714
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715- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
716
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717- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
718 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
719 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
720 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
721 unnecessary logging.
722
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723- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
724 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
725
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726- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
727 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
728 is incompatible is printed.
729
730- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
731 a previously undefined option code.
732
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733- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
734 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
735
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736- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
737 than the year 2000.
738
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739- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
740
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741- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
742
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743- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
744
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745 Changes since 4.0.0b3
746
747- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
748 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
749 configuration.
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751- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
752 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
753
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754- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
755 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
756 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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758- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
759 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
760 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
761 a requested address.
762
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763- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
764 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
765 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
766 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
767
768- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
769 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
770 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
771 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
772
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773- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
774 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
775 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
776
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777- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
778 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
779
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780- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
781
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782- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
783 codes through some conditions.
784
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785- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
786 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
787
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788- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
789 seemingly random values.
790
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791- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
792
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793- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
794 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
795 one ever has.
796
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797- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
798 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
799 to a REQUEST.
800
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801- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
802 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
803 level.
804
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805 Changes since 4.0.0b2
806
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807- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
808
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809- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
810 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
811 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
812 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
813 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
814
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815- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
816 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
817 new address.
818
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819 Changes since 4.0.0b1
820
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821- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
822 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
823 simultaneously on a single interface.
824
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825- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
826 of service under unusual server configurations
827
828- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
829
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830- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
831 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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833- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
834 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
835 on every pool rebalance run.
836
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837- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
838 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
839
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840- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
841 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
842
ab3a540f 843 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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845- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
846 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
847
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848- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
849 point out the problem.
850
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851- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
852 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
853 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
854
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855- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
856 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
857
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858- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
859 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
860 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
861
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862- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
863
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864- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
865 fixed by Marcus Goller.
866
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867- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
868 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
869 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
870 regardless of the existence of bindings.
871
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872- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
873
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874- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
875 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
876 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
877 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
878 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
879
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880- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
881
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882 Changes since 4.0.0a2
883
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884- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
885 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
886
763cba6b 887- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 888
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889- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
890 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
891 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
892
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893- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
894
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895- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
896 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
897
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898- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
899 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
900 loaded from persistent storage.
901
45d545f0 902- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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903 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
904 necessary.
905
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906- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
907 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
908 rapid-commit option.
909
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910- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
911 non-128-bits in length were removed.
912
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913 Changes since 4.0.0a1
914
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915- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
916 and fix.
917
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918- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
919
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920- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
921
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922- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
923 for when loading configuration.
924
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925- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
926 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
927 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
928
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929- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
930 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
931 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
932 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
933
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934- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
935
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936- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
937 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 938
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939- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
940
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941- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
942
943- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
944 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
945
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946- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
947 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
948
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949- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
950
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951- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
952 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
953
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954 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
955
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956- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
957
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958- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
959 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
960
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961- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
962
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963- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
964 initialized.
965
966- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
967
968- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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969 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
970
971- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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973- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
974
975- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
976 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
977
978- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
979
8ea19a71 980- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 981 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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982
983- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
984 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
985
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986- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
987
988- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
989
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990- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
991
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992 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
993
994- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
995 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
996 no support currently for both.
997
998- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
999 IAADDR option.
1000
1001- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1002 options.
1003
1004- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1005
1006- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1007 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1008
1009- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1010 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1011 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1012
1013- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1014 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1015
1016- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1017 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1018 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1019 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1020 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1021 differently, they both use the same code here).
1022
1023- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1024 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1025 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1026
1027- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1028
1029- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1030 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1031 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1032 it should not intercept.
1033
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1034 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1035
1036- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1037 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1038 between primary and secondary.
1039
1040- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1041 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1042 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1043
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1044- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1045
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1046- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1047 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1048 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1049 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1050 or REQUEST messages.
1051
1052- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1053 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1054
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1055- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1056
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1057 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1058
1059- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1060 failover protected subnets was removed.
1061
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1062 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1063
1064- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1065 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1066 odd number of leases).
1067
1068- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1069 rebalance run, and one after.
1070
1071- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1072 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1073 processing these messages.
1074
fe5b0fdd 1075 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1077- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1078 objects.
1079
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1080- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1081 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1082 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1083 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1084 at Allianz.
1085
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1086- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1087 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1088
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1089- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1090 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1091
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1092- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1093 caused the server to abort.
1094
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1095- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1096 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1097 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1098
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1099- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1100 by empty spaces would not get included.
1101
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1102- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1103 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1104
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1105- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1106 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1107
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1108- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1109 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1110
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1111- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1112 on the parameter request list.
1113
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1114 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1115
1116- Some spelling fixes.
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1118 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1119
1120- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1121 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1122
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1123- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1124 domain-search option syntax.
1125
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1126 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1127
1128- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1129 hash table was repaired.
1130
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1131- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1132 entering normal state.
1133
1134- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1135 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1136 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1137
1138- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1139 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1141- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1142 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1143 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1144 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1145
45d545f0 1146- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1147 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1148 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1149 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1150 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1151 to their needs.
1152
1153- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1154 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1155 run will attempt balance.
1156
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1157- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1158
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1159 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1160
1161- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1162 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1163 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1164 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1165
98bd7ca0 1166- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1167 was introduced.
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1168
1169- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1170 via OMAPI.
1171
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1172- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1173 the protocol draft.
1174
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1175- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1176 one does not already exist on the system.
1177
b43c87ad 1178- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1179
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1180- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1181 matches RFC 3074.
1182
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1183- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1184 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1185 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1186
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1187- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1188 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1189 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1190
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1191- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1192 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1193 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1194 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1195
1196- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1197 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1198 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1199 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1200
f7fdb216 1201- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1202 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1203 DHCPv6 support.
1204
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1205- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1206 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1207 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1208
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1209- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1210 have been incorporated.
1211
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1212- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1213 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1214 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1215 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1216 that belong to the peer in need.
1217
1218- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1219 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1220
1221- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1222 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1223 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1224
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1225- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1226 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1227
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1228- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1229 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1230 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1231 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1232 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1233
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1234- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1235 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1236 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1237 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1238
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1239- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1240 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1241 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1242 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1243 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1244 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1245 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1246 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1247 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1248
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1249- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1250 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1251
41e45067 1252- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1253 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1254 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1255 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1256
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1257- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1258 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1259 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1260 hardware and funding the development.
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1262- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1263 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1264 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1265 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1266 via Robin Breathe.
1267
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1268- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1269 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1270 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1271 from Christof Chen.
1272
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1273- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1274 formally supported.
1275
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1276 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1277
1278- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1279 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1280
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1281 Changes since 3.0.5
1282
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1283- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1284 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1285 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1286 they actually received.
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1287
1288- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1289
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1290- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1291 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1292 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1293 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1294
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1295- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1296
d69fb6a8 1297- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1298 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1300- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1301 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1302 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1303 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1304 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1305 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1306 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1307 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1308
1309- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1310 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1311 'file' field.
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1313- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1314 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1315
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1316- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1317 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1318 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1319
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1320- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1321 from Chris Wagner.
1322
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1323- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1324 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1325 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1326
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1327- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1328 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1329 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1330 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1331 was set.
1332
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1333- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1334 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1335
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1336- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1337 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1338 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1339 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1340 active ones.
1341
02428754 1342 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1343
901306d5 1344- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1345 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1346 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1347 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1348 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1349
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1350- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1351 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1352
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1353 Changes since 3.0.4
1354
1355- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1356 scopes are actually global has been added.
1357
1358- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1359 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1360 known to be damaging.
1361
1362- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1363 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1364 balancing).
1365
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1366- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1367 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1368 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1369
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1370- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1371 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1372 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1373
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1374- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1375 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1376 more clear now.
1377
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1378- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1379 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1380 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1381 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1382 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1383 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1385- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1386 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1387
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1388- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1389 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1390 made possible.
1391
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1392- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1393 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1394 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1395
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1396- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1397 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1398
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1399- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1400 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1401 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1402
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1403- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1404 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1405 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1406 value with the later configured value).
1407
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1408- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1409 have been named and documented.
1410
1411- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1412 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1413 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1414 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1415 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1416 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1417 write new output.
1418
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1419 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1420
1421- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1422 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1423
1424 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1425
1426- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1427 mailing list.
1428
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1429 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1430
45d545f0 1431- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1432 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1433
1434- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1435 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1436
1437- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1438 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1439 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1440 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1441
1442- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1443 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1444 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1445 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1446 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1447 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1448 transition (properly).
1449
1450- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1451
1452 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1453
1454- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1455 STDIN after reading one line.
1456
1457- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1458 descriptor it opened twice.
1459
1460- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1461 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1462 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1463
1464 Changes since 3.0.3
1465
1466- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1467 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1468 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1469
1470- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1471 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1472 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1473
1474- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1475 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1476 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1477 leases to allocate.
1478
1479- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1480 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1481 than the entire block of them.
1482
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1483! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1484 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1485 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1486 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1487 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1488 to a patch from infamous42md.
1489
1490! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1491 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1492 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1493 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1494 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1495 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1496
1497- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1498 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1499 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1500
1501- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1502 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1503
1504- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1505 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1506 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1507 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1508 transitional states.
1509
1510- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1511 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1512 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1513
1514- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1515 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1516 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1517
1518- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1519 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1520
1521- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1522 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1523
1524- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1525 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1526 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1527
1528- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1529 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1530
1531- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1532 repaired.
1533
1534- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1535 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1536 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1537 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1538
1539- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1540 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1541 data.
1542
1543- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1544 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1545 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1546 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1547 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1548
1549- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1550 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1551 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1552 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1553 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1554
1555- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1556 has been repaired.
1557
1558- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1559 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1560 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1561 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1562 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1563
1564- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1565 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1566
45d545f0 1567- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1568 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1569 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1570 move to 3.[01].x.
1571
1572- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1573 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1574
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1575 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1576
1577- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1578 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1579
1580- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1581 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1582 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1583 workaround.
1584
1585 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1586
1587- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1588 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1589
1590 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1591
1592- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1593 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1594 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1595
1596- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1597 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1598 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1599
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1600 Changes since 3.0.2
1601
1602- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1603 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1604 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1605
1606- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1607 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1608 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1609 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1610 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1611
1612- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1613 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1614 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1615
1616- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1617 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1618 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1619
1620- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1621 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1622 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1623 Peter Poeml.
1624
1625- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1626 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1627
1628- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1629 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1630 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1631 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1632 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1633 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1634
1635- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1636 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1637 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1638 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1639
1640- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1641 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1642 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1643 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1644
1645- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1646 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1647
1648- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1649 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1650 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1651
1652- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1653 7 bytes, and failover.
1654
1655- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1656 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1657 at Red Hat.
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1658
1659- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1660 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1661 should work better.
1662
1663- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1664 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1665 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1666
1667- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1668 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1669 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1670
1671 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1672
1673- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1674 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1675
1676 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1677
45d545f0 1678- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1679 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1680 overloading. This was repaired.
1681
1682- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1683 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1684 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1685 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1686 three chunks to fit.
1687
1688- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1689 were repaired.
1690
1691- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1692 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1693 leak).
1694
1695 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1696
1697- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1698 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1699
1700 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1701
1702- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1703
1704 Changes since 3.0.1
1705
1706- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1707 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1708 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1709
1710- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1711 name was not provided by the server.
1712
1713- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1714 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1715
1716- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1717 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1718
1719- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1720 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1721
1722- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1723
1724- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1725
1726- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1727 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1728 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1729 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1730 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1731
1732- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1733 the configuration be globally scoped.
1734
1735- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1736 Farkas.
1737
1738- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1739 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1740
1741- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1742 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1743
1744- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1745 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1746
1747- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1748 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1749 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1750 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1751
1752- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1753 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1754 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1755 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1756
1757- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1758 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1759 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1760
1761- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1762
1763- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1764 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1765 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1766
1767- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1768 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1769 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1770 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1771 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1772
1773- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1774 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1775
1776- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1777 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1778
1779- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1780 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1781 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1782 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1783
1784- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1785 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1786
1787- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1788 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1789 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1790
1791- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1792 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1793 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1794 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1795 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1796 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1797
1798- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1799 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1800 Infoblox.
1801
1802- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1803
1804- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1805 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1806 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1807 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1808 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1809 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1810 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1811
1812- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1813 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1814 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1815
1816- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1817 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1818 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1819
1820- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1821
1822 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1823
1824- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1825 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1826 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1827 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1828 systems either.
1829
1830- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1831
1832- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1833 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1834 is false.
1835
1836- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1837 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1838
1839- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1840
1841 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1842
1843! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1844 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1845 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1846 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1847 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1848 both finding and solving the problem.
1849
1850! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1852 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1853 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1854 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1855 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1856 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1857 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1858 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1859 published version of ISC DHCP.
1860
1861- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1862
1863- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1864
1865 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1866
1867- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1868 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1869 Richard Hirst.
1870
1871- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1872 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1873 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1874
1875- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1876
1877- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1878 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1879 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1880 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1881
1882- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1883 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1884
1885- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1886 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1887
1888- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1889
1890 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1891
1892- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1893 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1894
1895- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1896 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1897 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1898
1899- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1900 by name was fixed.
1901
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1903 longer result in error.
1904
1905- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1906
1907- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1908 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1909 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1910
1911- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1912 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1913
1914- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1915 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1916 Blapp.
1917
1918- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1919 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1920 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1921 Martin Blapp.
1922
1923- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1924 expiry times in failover configurations.
1925
1926- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1927 Steve G.
1928
1929- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1930 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1931
1932- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1933 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1934 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1935 now "unknown-144".
1936
1937- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1938 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1939
1940 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1941
1942- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1943
1944- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1945 not be bash.
1946
1947- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1948
1949- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1950 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1951 that errored before will now work properly.
1952
1953- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1954 names was repaired.
1955
1956- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1957 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1958 configuration file.
1959
1960- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1961 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1962
1963- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1964 error rather than a null dereference.
1965
1966 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1967
1968- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1969
1970- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1971
1972- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1973 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1974
1975- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1976
1977- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1978
1979- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1980 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1981 self-corrupting lease databases.
1982
1983- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1984
1985- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1986 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1987
1988- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1989
1990- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1991
1992- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1993 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1994 Ling Gou.
1995
1996- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1997 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1998
1999- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2000 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2001 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2002
2003- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2004 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2005
2006 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2007
2008- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2009 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2010
2011- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2012
2013- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2014 a memory leak.
2015
2016- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2017 script.
2018
2019- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2020
2021- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2022
2023- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2024
2025- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2026
2027- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2028
2029- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2030
2031- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2032
2033- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2034
2035- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2036
2037- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2038
2039- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2040
2041- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2042
2043 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2044
2045- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2046 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2047 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2048
2049 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2050
2051- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2052 to be renewed.
2053
2054- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2055 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2056
2057- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2058 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2059
2060- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2061 that two permit lists matched.
2062
2063- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2064 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2065
2066- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2067
2068- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2069 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2070
2071- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2072
2073- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2074
2075- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2076 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2077 going to update its A record.
2078
2079- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2080 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2081 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2082 DNS server.
2083
2084- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2085
2086- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2087
2088- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2089 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2090 NetBSD project).
2091
2092- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2093 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2094
2095- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2096 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2097
2098- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2099
2100- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2101
2102- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2103 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2104 failover protocol standard.
2105
2106- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2107 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2108 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2109
2110- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2111 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2112 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2113 do so.
2114
2115- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2116
2117 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2118
2119- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2120
2121- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2122 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2123
2124- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2125 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2126
2127- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2128 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2129 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2130
2131- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2132 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2133 network, merge the two pools.
2134
2135- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2136 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2137 fix this bug.
2138
2139 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2140
2141- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2142 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2143
2144- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2145 the same case.
2146
2147- Additional documentation.
2148
2149- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2150 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2151
2152 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2153
2154- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2155- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2156
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2158
2159- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2160 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2161 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2162 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2163 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2164
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2166
2167- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2168 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2169 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2170 wasn't the one that removed it.
2171
2172- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2173 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2174 were not configured.
2175
2176- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2177
2178- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2179 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2180 routing information.
2181
2182- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2183 request being sent.
2184
2185- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2186 done.
2187
2188- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2189 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2190 were pending.
2191
2192- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2193 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2194 problems with failover.
2195
2196- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2197 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2198 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2199
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2201
2202- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2203 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2204
2205- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2206 no object is open, it dumps core.
2207
2208- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2209
2210- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2211
2212- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2213
2214- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2215 a host object attribute with a null value.
2216
2217 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2218
2219- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2220
2221- Fix an obscure core dump.
2222
2223- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2224 when crucial information is left out.
2225
2226- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2227
2228- Documentation updates.
2229
2230 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2231
2232- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2233
2234- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2235 structure wasn't zeroed.
2236
2237- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2238 incorrectly.
2239
2240- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2241 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2242 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2243 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2244 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2245 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2246 restarted.
2247
2248 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2249
2250- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2251 in failover-enabled pools.
2252
2253- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2254 declarations).
2255
2256- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2257 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2258
2259- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2260 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2261
2262- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2263
2264- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2265 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2266
2267- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2268
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2270
2271- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2272
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2273 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2274
2275- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2276
2277- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2278
2279- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2280
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2281 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2282
2283- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2284 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2285 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2286
2287- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2288 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2289 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2290 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2291 string.
2292
2293- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2294
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2295 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2296
2297- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2298 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2299
2300- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2301 malformed packets.
2302
2303- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2304
2305- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2306 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2307 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2308
2309- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2310
2311- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2312
2313- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2314
2315- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2316 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2317
2318- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2319 tcp connections from being played back.
2320
2321- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2322 on exit.
2323
2324- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2325
2326- Add some configurability to the build system.
2327
2328- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2329
2330- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2331 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2332 hadn't been noticed until now.
2333
2334 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2335
2336- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2337 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2338
2339- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2340 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2341 conformant, but also didn't work).
2342
2343- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2344 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2345
2346- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2347 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2348
2349- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2350 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2351
2352- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2353 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2354
2355- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2356 doing failover.
2357
2358- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2359 running on alpha processors.
2360
2361- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2362 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2363
2364- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2365
2366- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2367
2368- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2369 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2370
2371- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2372
2373- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2374 actually named (key names are domain names).
2375
2376- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2377
2378- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2379 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2380
2381- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2382 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2383
2384- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2385 statements.
2386
2387- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2388 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2389
2390- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2391 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2392 operating.
2393
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2395
2396- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2397 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2398 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2399 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2400
2401- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2402 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2403
2404- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2405
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2406 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2407
2408- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2409 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2410
2411- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2412 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2413 to the chain.
2414
2415- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2416
2417- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2418
2419- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2420
98311e4b 2421- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2422 attribute values in omshell.
2423
98311e4b 2424- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2425
2426- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2427
2428 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2429
2430- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2431 DHCPDECLINE.
2432
2433- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2434
2435- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2436 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2437 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2438
2439- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2440
2441- Documentation fixes.
2442
2443- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2444 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2445
2446- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2447 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2448
2449- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2450
2451- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2452
2453- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2454 case-insensitive.
2455
2456- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2457
98311e4b 2458- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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2459 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2460 consistently.
2461
2462- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2463 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2464
2465- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2466
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2467 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2468
2469- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2470 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2471 result of duplicate leases.
2472
2473- Document OMAPI server objects.
2474
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2475 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2476
2477- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2478 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2479
2480- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2481 core dumps.
2482
2483- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2484 Friedrich.
2485
2486- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2487
2488 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2489
2490- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2491 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2492 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2493 billing class code.
2494
2495- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2496 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2497
2498- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2499 trace file.
2500
79ea3de8 2501 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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2503- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2504 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2505 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2506 e.g., Digital Unix.
2507
2508- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2509 when no error had occurred.
2510
2511- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2512 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2513 non-communicating state.
2514
2515- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2516
2517- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2518 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2519 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2520
2521- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2522 when the client lease expired.
2523
2524- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2525 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2526 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2527 in testing.
2528
2529- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2530 the command line, it would fail.
2531
2532- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2533 user impact).
2534
2535- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2536
2537- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2538 they're executable.
2539
2540 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2541
2542- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2543 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2544 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2545 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2546
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2547- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2548 Transmeta.
2549
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2550- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2551 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2552 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2553 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2554
2555- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2556 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2557
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2558 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2559
2560- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2561 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2562
2563- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2564
2565- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2566
2567- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2568
2569- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2570
2571- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2572
2573- Update some parts of the README file.
2574
2575- Support GCC on SCO.
2576
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2578
2579- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2580 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2581
2582- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2583 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2584 unbill the old class.
2585
2586- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2587 process the state transition immediately.
2588
2589- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2590 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2591
2592- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2593
2594- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2595
2596- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2597
2598- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2599
2600- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2601 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2602 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2603
2604- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2605 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2606
2607- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2608 lease file.
2609
2610- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2611
2612- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2615
2616- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2617 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2618
2619- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2620
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2622
2623- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2624
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2626
2627- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2628
2629- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2630 pl19.
2631
2632- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2633 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2634 past the regression test.
2635
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2637
2638- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2639 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2640
2641- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2642 DHCPREQUEST.
2643
2644- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2645
2646- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2647
2648- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2649
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2652- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2653 (Damien Neil)
2654
2655- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2656 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2657
2658- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2659 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2660 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2661
2662- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2663 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2664 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2665 message.
2666
2667- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2668 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2669 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2670
98311e4b 2671- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2672 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2673 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2674 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2675 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2676 this way will work.
2677
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2678- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2679
2680- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2681 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2682 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2683 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2684
2685 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2686
2687 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2688
2689- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2690 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2691 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2692
2693- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2694 Hermann Lauer.
2695
2696- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2697 messages.
2698
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2699- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2700 it contained quoted strings.
2701
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2702 ** there was no pl17 **
2703
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2706- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2707 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2708 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2709 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2710 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2711 tracking down memory leaks.
2712
2713- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2714 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2715 Solaris.
2716
2717- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2718 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2719 corruption and core dumps.
2720
2721- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2722 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2723
2724- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2725
2726- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2727 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2728
2729- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2730 name and version to standard output.
2731
2732- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2733
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2734- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2735 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2736
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2737- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2738
2739- Lots of documentation updates.
2740
2741- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2742 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2743
2744- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2745
2746- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2747 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2748
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2750
2751- Some documentation tweaks.
2752
2753- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2754
2755- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2756
2757- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2758 agent options into them.
2759
2760- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2761
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2762- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2763 options.
2764
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2766
2767- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2768 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2769 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2770 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2771 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2772
2773- Fix up documentation.
2774
2775- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2776 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2777
2778- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2779
2780- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2781
2782- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2783 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2784 practical use otherwise.
2785
2786- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2787 for debugging.
2788
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2790
2791- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2792 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2793 dump on some systems.
2794
2795- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2796 option.
2797
2798- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2799 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2800
2801- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2802 that were not printing enough information.
2803
2804- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2805 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2806
2807- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2808 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2809 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2810 were answering.
2811
2812- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2813 the transition.
2814
2815
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2817
2818- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2819
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2820 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2821
2822- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2823 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2824 representation from working correctly.
2825
2826- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2827 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2828 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2829 could spin.
2830
2831- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2832 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2833
2834- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2835 interface name on the command line.
2836
2837- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2838 client state.
2839
2840- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2841 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2842 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2843 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2844 added by Ted Lemon.
2845
2846- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2847 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2848
2849- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2850 end option.
2851
2852- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2853 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2854 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2855
2856- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2857 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2858 face of a null hardware address on input.
2859
2860- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2861 specified unqualified.
2862
2863- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2864 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2865
2866- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2867 RFC.
2868
2869- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2870
2871- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2872
2873- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2874 it works.
2875
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2876 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2877
2878- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2879 to CVS.
2880
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2881 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2882
2883- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2884
2885- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2886 in patchlevel 9.
2887
2888- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2889 options at renewal time.
2890
2891- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2892 configuration language.
2893
2894- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2895
2896- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2897 done when no client hostname was received.
2898
2899- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2900
2901- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2902 the DHCP option space.
2903
2904- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2905
2906- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2907 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2908
2909- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2910 silently dropped.
2911
2912- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2913 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2914
2915- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2916 will be correctly updated.
2917
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2918 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2919
2920- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2921 bounds-checking.
2922
2923 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2924
2925- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2926
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2929- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2930 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2931 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2932
2933- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2934 option.
2935
2936- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2937 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2938 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2939 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2940 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2941 meaningfully.
2942
2943- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2944 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2945 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2946
2947- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2948 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2949 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2950 this one down!
2951
2952- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2953 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2954 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2955 down and fixing this problem.
2956
2957 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2958
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2959- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2960 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2961
2962- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2963 environment.
2964
2965- Fix suffix operator.
2966
2967- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2968
2969- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2970 connection code.
2971
2972- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2973
2974- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2975
2976- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2977 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2978
2979- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2980
2981- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2982
2983- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2984 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2985
2986- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2987 spawn with.
2988
2989- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2990 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2991
2992- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2993 for OMAPI.
2994
2995- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2996 can install in host declarations.
2997
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2998 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2999
3000- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3001 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3002 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3003 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3004 comments)!
3005
3006- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3007
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3008- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3009 request for help on this with patches!
3010
3011- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3012 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3013 lost, they never reconnect.
3014
3015- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3016 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3017
3018- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3019 dump.
3020
3021- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3022 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3023 catching this one.
3024
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3025 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3026
3027- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3028 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3029 lease renewal time.
3030
3031- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3032 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3033 declared without a key.
3034
3035- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3036
3037- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3038 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3039
3040- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3041 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3042 determine the maximum size of the response.
3043
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3044 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3045
359b023e
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3046- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3047 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3048
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3049- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3050 RENEWING client.
3051
3052- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3053
3054- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3055 using memcmp().
3056
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3057 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3058
3059- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3060 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3061 pointing this out.
3062
3063- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3064 exit.
3065
3066- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3067
3068- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3069 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.