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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
d618ba48 2 Version 4.4.0-pre-alpha
33dca28a 3 29 March 2016
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
cb0d7e7c 21This release also adds support for the standard DDNS as described in the
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22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
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57- Insert the raw data from a fully encapsualted option into the option cache.
58 This allows "exists" to check for the option if any sub options exist. It
59 also adds the raw data to the environment variables supplied to the client
60 script.
61 [ISC-Bugs #39863]
62
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63- Removed an extraneous expression in omapi socket callback function. Prior
64 to this change, the logic was techinically incorrect but other factors
65 ensured the outcome itself was correct. This change was made primarily
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66 for code clarity. Thanks to Ganesh Pinjala for bringing the issue to our
67 attention.
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68 [ISC-Bugs #42834]
69
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70- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
71 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
72 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
73 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
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75- Pass configure arguments which begin with an upper case letter, e.g.
76 CFLAGS, to the embedded bind configure, so it is no longer required
77 to use environment variables to get the same effect.
78 [ISC-Bugs #35143]
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80- Added --enable-kqueue, --enable-epoll, --enable-devpoll and a more
81 general --with-bind-extra-config to pass extra options to the
82 embedded bind configure. Note we had mixed experiences with this
54ee18cf 83 so it is at the user risk, i.e., they are NOT SUPPORTED yet.
f285576d 84 [ISC-Bugs #20890]
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86- Changed the way the embedded bind Makefile is updated by configure.
87 The only user visible side effect is that --with-libbind now requires
88 either "no" or an (absolute) path, i.e. "yes" is no longer valid.
89 [ISC-Bugs #43227]
90
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91- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
92 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
93 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
94 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
95 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
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97- Added the support for git repositories in the util/bind.sh script.
98 When you build ISC DHCP from a git repo, i.e., without a "bind"
99 directory populated as in the release distribution file, you may now
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100 create the bind directory, change to it and clone the private
101 (repo.isc.org/proj/git/prod/bind9.git) or the public
290a7613 102 (https://source.isc.org/git/bind9.git) git repository into
d163c8f7 103 bind/bind9 and then invoke the util/bind.sh script as usual.
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104 Note this option is incompatible with "make dist" (and make "distcheck")
105 because no bind/bind.tar.gz nor bind/version.tmp files are available.
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106 [ISC-Bugs #43236]
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108- Use the embedded bind libraries where they are built (vs where they
109 are installed).
110 [ISC-Bugs #39319]
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112- Use last version (9.11) of plain embedded bind libraries in place of
113 older (9.9) version of export bind libraries.
114 [ISC-Bugs #43215]
115
5a2e8c37 116- Using "make distcheck" now works with external bind libraries (aka
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117 configure --with-libbind).
118 [ISC-Bugs #43285]
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120- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
121 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
122 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
123 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
124 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
125 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
126 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
127 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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129- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
130 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
131 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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132 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
133 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
134 arguments.
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135 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
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137- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
138 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
139 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
140 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
141 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
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143- When replying to a DHCPINFORM, the server will now include options specified
144 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
145 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
146 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
147 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
0aa74669 148 [ISC-Bugs #45051]
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150- Fixed a bug in OMAPI that causes omshell to crash when a name-value
151 pair with a zero length value is shipped in an object. Thanks to
152 Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and
153 supplying the patch.
154 [ISC-Bugs #29108]
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156- IPv6 operation now supports an EUI-64 based address allocation which will
157 calculate addresses for clients with EUI-64 DUIDs based on those DUIDs when
158 enabled by setting use-eui-64 true. The parameter may defined down to the
159 pool scope. Note this feature must be compiled in by defining EUI_64 in
160 includes/site.h. This flag is undefined by default.
161 [ISC-Bugs #43927]
162
d618ba48 163 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
0b0a1399 164
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165- Tidy up several small tickets.
166 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
167 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
168 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
169 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
170 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
171 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
172 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
173 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
174 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
175 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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177- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
178 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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180- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
181 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
182 Popelka at Red Hat.
183 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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185- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
186 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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188- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
189 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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191- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
192 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
193 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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195- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
196 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
197 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
198 option in the list.
199 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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201- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
202 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
203 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
204 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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206- Remove unused RCSID tags.
207 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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209- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
210 for MRT limit it to MRD.
211 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
212 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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214- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
215 when a server, relay or client are killed.
216 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
217 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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219- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
220 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
221 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
222 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
223 given the "-1" argument.
224 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
225 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
226 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
227 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
228 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
229 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
230 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
231 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
232 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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234- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
235 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
236 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
237 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
238 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
239 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
240 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
241 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
242 to syslog.
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244- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
245 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
246 number in syslog messages.
247 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
248 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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250- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
251 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
252 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
253 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
254 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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256- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
257 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
258 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
259 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
260 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
261 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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263- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
264 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
265 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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267- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
268 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
269 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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271- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
272 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
273 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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275- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
276 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
277 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
278 in a pool are used.
279 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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281- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
282 on an error condition.
283 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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285- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
286 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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288- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
289 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
290 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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292- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
293 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
294 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
295 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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297- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
298 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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300- Tidy up receive packet processing.
301 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
302 a possible patch.
303 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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305- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
306 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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308- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
309 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
310 and hmac-sha512
311 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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313- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
314 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 315 patch.
d618ba48 316 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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318- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
319 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
320 provided the patch.
321 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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323- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
324 after the configuration file has been processed.
325 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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327- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
328 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
329 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
330 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
331 compilers that was introduced by #36712
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333- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
334 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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336- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
337 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
338 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
339 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
340 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
341 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
342 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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344- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
345 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
346 bug report and patch.
347 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
348 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
349 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
350 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
351 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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353- Addressed checksum issues:
354 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
355 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
356 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
357 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
358 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
359 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
360 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
361 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
362 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
363 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
364 than being dropped.
365 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
366 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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368- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
369 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
370 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
371 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
372 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
373 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
374 inbound request to a known subnet.
375 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
376 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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378- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
379 BOOTP request handling.
380 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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382- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
383 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
384 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
385 the patch upon which the fix is based.
386 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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388- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
389 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
390 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
391 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
392 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
393 modified to send requests more often.
394 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
395 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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397- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
398 name from the following in order of preference:
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400 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
401 2. Host name option if provided by the client
402 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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404 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
405 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
406 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
407 and no other value is available.
408 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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410- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
411 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
412 corrected.
413 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
414 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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416- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
417 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
418 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
419 components.
420 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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422- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
423 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
424 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
425 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
426 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
427 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
428 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
429 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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431- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
432 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
433 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
434 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
435 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
436 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
437 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
438 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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440- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
441 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
442 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
443 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
444 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
445 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
446 bug and supplying a patch.
447 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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449- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
450 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
451 leae expiration code.
452 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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454- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
455 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
456 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
457 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
458 files.
459 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
460 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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462- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
463 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
464 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
465 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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467- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
468 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
469 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
470 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
471 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
472 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
473 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
474 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
475 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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477- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
478 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
479 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
480 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
481 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
482 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
483 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
484 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
485 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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487- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
488 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
489 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
490 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
491 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
492 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
493 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
494 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
495 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
496 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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498- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
499 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
500 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
501 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
502 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
503 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
504 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
505 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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507- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
508 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
509 bug report and patch.
510 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
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512- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
513 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
514 code consistent across versions.
515 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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517- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
518 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
519 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
520 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
521 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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523 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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526 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
527 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
528 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
529 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
530 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
531 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
532 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
533 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
534 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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536 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 537 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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539- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
540 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
541 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
542 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 543 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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545- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
546 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
547 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
548 a proper length for it.
549 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
550
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551- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
552 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
553 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
554 reasonable to remove it.
555 [ISC-Buts #39019]
556
90a062fb 557- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
cacce092 558 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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559 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
560 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
561
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562- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
563 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
564 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
565 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
566 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
567
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568- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
569 table 3.
570 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
571
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572- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
573 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
574 the issue and suggesting the patch.
575 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
576
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577- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
578 of as a token.
579 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
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581- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
582 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
583 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
584 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
585 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
586 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
587 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
588
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590 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
591 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
592 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
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594- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
595 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
596 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
597
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600 for the bug report.
cca6a648 601 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
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603- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
604 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
605 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
606 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
607 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 608 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 609 reporting the issue.
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613 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
614 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
615 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
616 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
617 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
618 itself.
619 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
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622 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
623 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
624 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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626- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
627 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
628 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
629 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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632 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
633 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
634 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
635 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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637- Fixed a server crash that could occur when the server attempts to remove
638 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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639 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
640 issue.
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642
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644 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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646 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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648 contributions (alphabetically):
649 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 650 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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652 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 653 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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654 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
655 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
656 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
657 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
658 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
659 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
660 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
661 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
662 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
663 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
664 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
665 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
666 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
667 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
668
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671 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 672 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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674- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
675 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
676 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
677 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
678 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
679
45adf35c 680- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 681 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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682 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
683 the issue.
4e1bf548 684 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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686- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
687 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
688 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
689 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
690 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
691 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
692 tests.
693 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
694 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
695 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
696 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
697 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
698 use the command "make -k check".
699 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
700
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701- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
702 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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704- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
705 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
706 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
707 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
708 keep the previous behavior.
709 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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711- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
712 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
713 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
714 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
715 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
716 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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718- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
719 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
720 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
721 address them.
722 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
723 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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725- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
726 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
727 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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729- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
730 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
731 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
732 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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734- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
735 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
736 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
737 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
738 not show a value.
739 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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741- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
742 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
743 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
744 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
745 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
746 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
747 he provided.
748 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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750- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
751 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
752 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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754- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
755 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
756 the issue and supplying the patches.
757 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
758 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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760- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
761 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
762 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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764- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
765 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
766 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
767 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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770 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
771 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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773! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
774 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
775 patch.
776 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
777 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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779- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
780 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
781 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
782 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
783 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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785- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
786 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
787 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
788 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
789 the software to fail.
790 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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792- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
793 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
794 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
795 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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797- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
798 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
799 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
800 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
801 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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803- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
804 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
805 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
806 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
807 update as an "invalid state transition".
808 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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810- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
811 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
812 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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814- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
815 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
816 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
817 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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819- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
820 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
821 modified to work as infinite.
822 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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824- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
825 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
826 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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828- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
829 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
830 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
831 option as per RFC 6939.
832 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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834- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
835 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
836 for cross compilation.
837 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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839- Add more option definitions.
840 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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842- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
843 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
844 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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846- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
847 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
848 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
849 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
850 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
851 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
852 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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854- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
855 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
856 feature.
857 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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859- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
860 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
861 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
862 relay.
863 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
864 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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866- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
867 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
868 Section 22.4.
869 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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871- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
872 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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874- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
875 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
876 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
877 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
878 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
879 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
880 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
881 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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883- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
884 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
885 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
886 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
887 submitting a patch
888 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
889 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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891- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
892 decoding a packet.
893 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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895- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
896 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
897 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
898 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
899 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
900 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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903 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
904 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
905 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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907- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
908 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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910- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
911 of circuit id length.
912 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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914- Add support for including an encapsulated option in a response
915 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
916 returned in responses.
917 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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920 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
921 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
922 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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924- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
925 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
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926 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but not used
927 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
928 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
929 for reporting the issue.
d618ba48 930 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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933 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
934 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
935 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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937- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
938 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
939 a cut and paste error.
940 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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943 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
944 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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946- Added global configuration parameter, abandon-lease-time, which determines
947 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
948 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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950 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
951 with us to produce a viable solution.
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954- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
955 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
956 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
957 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
958 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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2b5c8201 961 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
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964 patch.
d618ba48 965 [ISC-Bugs #42113]
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968 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
969 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
970 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
971 verify the problem and fix.
972 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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974- Change dmalloc to use a size_t as the length argument to bring it
975 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
976 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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980 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
981 it runs out.
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985 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
986 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
987 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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988 [ISC-Bugs #41547]
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990- Clean up some memory references in the vendor-class construct.
991 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
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994 execute autoreconf. Prior to this, autoreconf failures would go undetected
995 causing the legacy configure script to loop when run with --enable-libtool.
996 [ISC-Bugs #43546]
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999 "Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
1000 [ISC-Bugs #32744]
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1003 as is done for BSD and OS-X. Prior to this the code would only recognize
1004 the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
1005 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at Suse, and Wei
1006 Kong at Novell, who all submitted patches.
1007 [ISC-Bugs #28761]
1008 [ISC-Bugs #31992]
1009 [ISC-Bugs #25428]
1010 [ISC-Bugs #31940]
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1013 now disabled by default to avoid the presence of this library to be
1014 detected which can lead to a link failure.
1015 [ISC-Bugs #45069]
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1019- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
1020 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
1021 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
1022 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
1023 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
1024 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 1025 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 1026 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 1027 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 1028 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
51b8a8a0 1029
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1030- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
1031 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
1032 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
1033
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1034- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
1035 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
1036 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
1037 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1038 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 1039
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1040- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1041 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1042 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1043 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1044 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1045 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1046
a7341359 1047- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 1048 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 1049
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1050- Add support for using classes with v6.
1051 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
1052
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1053- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
1054 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1055 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1056 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1057 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1058 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1059 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1060 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1062- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1063 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1064 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1065 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1066 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1067 not recommended.
64fb661c 1068 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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1070- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1071 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1072 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1073 This is "Server starting service.".
1074 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1075 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1076 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1077 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
f88446f1 1078
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1079- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
1080 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1081 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1082 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1083 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1084 man page for a description.
1085 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1086
e54ff84f 1087- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1088 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1089 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1090 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1091 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1092 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1093 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1094
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1095- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1096 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1097 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1098 one instance of their respective address types.
1099 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
4d079f0e 1100
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1101- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1102 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1103 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1104 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1105 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1106 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1107 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1109- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1110 and take host declarations into account.
1111 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1112 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1113
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1114- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1115 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1116 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1117 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 1118
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1119- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1120 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1121 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1122
01a44a77 1123 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
8ee352ee 1124
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1125- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1126 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1127
01a44a77 1128- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1129
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1130- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1131 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1132
01a44a77 1133- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1134
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1135- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1136 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1137 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1138 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1139 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1140 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1141
01a44a77 1142- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1143
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1144- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1145 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1146
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1147- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1148 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1149 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1150 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1151
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1152- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1153 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1154 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1155 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1156 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1157 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1158 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1159 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1160 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
c5bc8b1a 1161
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1162- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1163 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
cc17cbc3 1164
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1165! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1166 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1167 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1168 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1169
01a44a77 1170- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1171
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1172- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1173 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1174 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1175 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1176 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1177
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1178- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1179 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1180 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1181 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1182 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1183
01a44a77 1184- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1185
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1186- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1187 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1188
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1189- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1190 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1191 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1192 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1193 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1194 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
47e8308d 1195
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1196- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1197 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1198
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1199 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1200 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1201
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1202 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1203 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1204
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1205 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1206 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1207
01a44a77 1208- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1209
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1210- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1211 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1212 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1213 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1214 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1215 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1216
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1217- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1218 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1219 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1220 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1221 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1222 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1223
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1224- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1225 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1226 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1227
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1228- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1229 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1230 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1231 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1232
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1233- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1234 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1235
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1236- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1237 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1238 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1239
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1240- Minor code fixes
1241 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1242 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1243 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1244 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1245 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1246 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1247 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1248 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1249 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1250 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1251 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1252 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1253
01a44a77 1254- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1255
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1256- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1257 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1258
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1259- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1260 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1261
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1262- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1263 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1264
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1265- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1266 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1267 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1268
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1269- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1270 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1271
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1272- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1273 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1274 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1275
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1276- Fixes to lease input and output.
1277 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1278 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1279 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1280 characters.
1281 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1282 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1283
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1284- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1285 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1286 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1287 at Red Hat.
1288 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1289 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1290 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1291 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1292
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1293- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1294 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1295 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1296 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1297
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1298! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1299 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1300 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1301 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1303- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1304 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1305 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1306
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1307- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1308 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1309 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1310 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1311 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1312
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1313- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1314 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1315 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1316 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1317 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1318
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1319! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1320 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1321 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1322 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1323 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1324 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
bc7f8b8e 1325
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1326- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1327 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1328 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1329
adb95d23 1330- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1331 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1332 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1333
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1334- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1335 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1336 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1337
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1338- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1339 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1340 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1341 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1342 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1343
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1344- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1345 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1346 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1347 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1348
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1349! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1350 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1351 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1352 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1353 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1354 and reset its timeout value.
1355 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1357- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1358 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1359 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1360 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
d208bb04 1361
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1363 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1364 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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1366- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1367 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1368 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1369 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
d424157d 1370
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1371- Some fixes for LDAP
1372 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1373 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1374 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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1376- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1377 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1378
1379! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1380 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1381 interfaces with the OS.
1382 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1383 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1385- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1386 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1388- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1389 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1390 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1391 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1392 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1393 in v6 mode at configure time.
1394 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1396- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1397 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1398 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1399 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1401- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1402 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1403 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1404 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1405 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1407- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1408 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1409 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1410 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1411 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1413- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1414 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1415 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1416 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1417 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1419- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1420 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1421 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1423- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1424 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1425 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1426 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1427 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1429- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1430 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1431 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1432
1433- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1434 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1435 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1437- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1438 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1439 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1440 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1441 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1442 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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1445 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1446 responses to the all-ones address.
1447 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1448 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1449
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1450- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1451 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1452 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1453 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1454
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1455- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1456 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1457
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1458- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1459 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1460 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1461
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1462- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1463 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1464 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1465 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1466 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1467 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1468 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1469 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1470 enable this except for testing purposes.
1471 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1472 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1473
c616de4f 1474- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1475 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1476
1477- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1478
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1479- Client Script fixes
1480 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1481 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1482 the domain search address is link local.
1483 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1484 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1485 being changed.
1486
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1487- Documentation cleanup
1488 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1489
9a111ee8 1490- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1491 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1492
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1493- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1494 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1495 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1496 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1497
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1498- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1499 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1500 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1501
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1502- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1503 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1504
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1505- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1506 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1507 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1508 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1509 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1510 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1511
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1512- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1513 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1514 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1515 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1516 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1517 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1518 in site.h then server will be terminated
1519 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1520
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1521! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1522 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1523 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1524 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1525 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1526 CVE-2011-2748
1527 CVE-2011-2749
1528
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1529- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1530 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1531 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1532 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1533
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1534- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1535 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1536
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1537- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1538 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1539
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1540- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1541 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1542
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1543! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1544 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1545 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1546 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1547 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1548 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1549
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1550! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1551 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1552 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1553 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1554 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1555 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1556 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1557 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1558 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1559 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1560 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1561 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1562
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1563- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1564 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1565 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1566 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1567
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1568- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1569 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1570 from the DNS client code.
1571 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1572
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1573- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1574 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1575
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1576- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1577 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1578 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1579 some issues we found in the socket code.
1580 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1581
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1582- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1583 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1584 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1585 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1586
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1587- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1588 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1589
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1590- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1591 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1592 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1593 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1594 weren't removed from the DNS.
1595 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1596
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1597- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1598 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1599 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1600 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1601
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1602- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1603 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1604 dynamic bootp clients.
1605 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1606
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1607- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1608 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1609 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1610 handing it out.
1611 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1612 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1613 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1614 for different IAs.
1615 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1616 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1617
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1618- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1619 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1620 an int as a boolean).
1621 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1622
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1623- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1624 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1625 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1626 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1627 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1628 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1629 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1630 may be removed in the future.
1631 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1632 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1633
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1634- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1635 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1636 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1637 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1638
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1639- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1640 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1641 report and the first version of the patch.
1642 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1643
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1644- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1645 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1646 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1647 for reporting this issue.
1648 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1649
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1650- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1651 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1652 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1653 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1654 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1655 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1656 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1657 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1658 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1659 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1660
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1661! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1662 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1663 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1664 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1665 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1666 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1667 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1668 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1669 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1670 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1671 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1672 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1673
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1674! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1675 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1676 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1677 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1678 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1679 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1680
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1681! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1682 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1683 this issue.
1684 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1685 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1686
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1687- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1688 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1689 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1690 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1691 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1692 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1693
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1694! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1695 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1696 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1697 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1698 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1699 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 1700
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1701- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1702 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1703
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1704- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1705 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1706 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1707 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1708 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1709 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1710
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1711- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1712 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1713 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1714 freed in other cases.
1715 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1716
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1717- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1718 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1719 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1720 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1721 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1722 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1723 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1724 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1725
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1726- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1727 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1728 and patches.
1729 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1730
9a111ee8 1731- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1732 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1733
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1734- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1735 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1736 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1737
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1738- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1739 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1740 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1741 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1742 variables.
1743 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1744
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1745- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1746 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1747 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1748 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1749 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1750 enabling it.
1751 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1752
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1753- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1754 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1755
adb95d23 1756- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1757 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1758 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1759 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1760 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1761
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1762- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1763 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1764 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1765 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1766 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1767
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1768- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1769 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1770
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1771- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1772 and comment out a currently unused test.
1773 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1774
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1775- Address static analysis warnings.
1776 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1777
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1778- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1779 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1780
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1781- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1782 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1783
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1784- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1785 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1786
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1787- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1788 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1789 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1790
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1791- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1792 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1793 for the patch.
1794 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1795
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1796- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1797 objects.
1798 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1799
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1800- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1801 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1802 to work more consistently.
1803 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1804
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1805- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1806 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1807 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1808
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1809- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1810 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1811
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1812- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1813 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1814 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1815 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1816 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1817
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1818- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1819 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1820
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1821- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1822 to the clients.
1823 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1824
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1825- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1826 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1827
7aa153b8 1828
adbef119
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1829 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1830
d340bc24
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1831- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1832 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1833 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1834
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1835- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1836 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1837 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1838
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1839- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1840 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1841
a41d7a25
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1842- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1843
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1844- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1845 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1846 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1847 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1848 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1849 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1850
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1851- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1852 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1853 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1854 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1855 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1856 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1857 FQDN options by default).
1858
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1859- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1860 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1861 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1862 determined lease time) are omitted.
1863
adb95d23 1864- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1865 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1866 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1867
1868- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1869 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1870 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1871
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1872 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1873
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1874- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1875
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1876- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1877
47e6eb82
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1878- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1879 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1880 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1881 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1882 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1883
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1884- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1885
1aa0fe5e
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1886- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1887 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1888 had been deleted from configuration.
1889
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1890- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1891 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1892 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1893 were being ignored.
1894
64e1823d
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1895- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1896
26e59ee9
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1897- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1898 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1899 Nordahl.
1900
70ea9345
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1901- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1902 dhcpv6 disabled.
1903
8d7dca58 1904- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1905 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1906
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1907- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1908 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1909
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1910- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1911 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1912 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1913
1914- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1915 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1916 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1917 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1918 fewer system calls.
1919
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1920- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1921 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1922 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1923 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1924 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1925 Christof Chen.
1926
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1927- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1928 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1929 and in normal state.
1930
1931- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1932 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1933
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1934- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1935
1936- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1937 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1938 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1939
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1940- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1941 rather than restarting the listener.
1942
a57df74a
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1943- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1944 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1945
1946- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1947 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1948 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1949
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1950- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1951 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1952 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1953 timeouts).
1954
792156a9
DH
1955- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1956 in failover state records.
1957
8a4e543b
DH
1958! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1959 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1960 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1961 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1962
a1308b64
DH
1963- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1964 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1965
1b12d999
DH
1966- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1967 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1968 last option definition is used.
1969
d453265f
PS
1970- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1971 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1972 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1973
3e29af1e
PS
1974- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1975 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1976
b8d45c67
DH
1977- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1978 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1979 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1980 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1981 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1982 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1983
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DH
1984- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1985 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1986 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1987 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1988
e4e3a2ab
DH
1989! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1990 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1991
875e99dc
SR
1992- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1993 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1994
2267da84
DH
1995- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1996 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1997 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1998 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1999 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 2000 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
2001 configuration.
2002
cd3f0b9b
DH
2003- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
2004 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
2005
0493fdca
SR
2006- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
2007 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
2008 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
2009 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
2010
95bba8b6
SR
2011- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
2012 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
2013 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 2014 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 2015
adbef119 2016 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
2017
2018- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
2019 be recognized.
61d75ea2 2020
a4ffedd1
DH
2021 Changes since 4.1.0a2
2022
2023- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
2024 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
2025 "abandoned".
2026
6ff3b26d
FD
2027- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
2028
1387545f
DH
2029- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
2030 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
2031
2032- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
2033 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
2034
2035- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 2036 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 2037
399d3dbe
DH
2038- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2039
fbcee149
DH
2040- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2041 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2042 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2043 in future releases.
2044
f1672d89
DH
2045- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2046 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2047
236d3a99
DH
2048- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2049 'dhclient -6' support.
2050
efa5e6b9
DH
2051- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2052 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2053 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2054 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2055
7d6180be 2056 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
2057
2058- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2059
51e7687f
EH
2060- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2061
20210a7b
EH
2062- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2063 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2064 only the latter. Fixed.
2065
535485df
EH
2066- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2067
8fbb55ff
DH
2068- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2069 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2070
61220a00
EH
2071- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2072
c40e954c
EH
2073- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2074
63971a83
DH
2075- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2076 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2077 --enable-early-chroot.
2078
66cebfcb
DH
2079- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2080 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2081
f8cbf390
DH
2082- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2083 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2084 parameter.
2085
8269561d
DH
2086- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2087 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2088
b445a411
DH
2089- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2090 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2091
bd72740e
FD
2092- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2093
9322442f
FD
2094- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2095
8dea7ba7
FD
2096- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2097
4619c0a2
DH
2098- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2099
9ac4206a
DH
2100- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2101 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2102 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2103
420d8b3f
FD
2104- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2105 support.
2106
40ec5f38
DH
2107- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2108 repaired.
2109
80097764
FD
2110- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2111
ffbaa880
FD
2112- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2113
7de20a95
EH
2114- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2115 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2116
d352732e
EH
2117- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2118 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2119
7d6180be
DH
2120- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2121 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2122
2123- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2124 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2125 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2126 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2127 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2128 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2129 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2130 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2131 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2132 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2133 shared-network.
2134
2135- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2136 configured option values.
2137
2138- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2139 support class statements.
2140
adb95d23 2141- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2142 selection were repaired.
2143
ecddae64
DH
2144- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2145 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2146 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2147 by the OS.
2148
2149- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2150 address.
2151
2152- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2153 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2154
d104d45b
DH
2155- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2156
2157- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2158
2159- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2160 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2161
01a54c17 2162 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2163
6d7f9584
FD
2164- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2165
4cafb815 2166- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2167 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2168
022fe95e
EH
2169- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2170 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2171 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2172
9a111ee8 2173- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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2174 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2175
aabfa4de
FD
2176- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2177
0674055a
FD
2178- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2179 reserved IDs avoided).
2180
b51c785f
FD
2181- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2182
900405e9
FD
2183- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2184 carries a rapid-commit option.
2185
96b620e5
FD
2186- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2187 an empty active lease.
2188
be62cf06
FD
2189- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2190
01a54c17
EH
2191- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2192 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2193 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2194 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2195
adb95d23 2196- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2197
2198- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2199 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2200 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2201 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2202 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2203 Christof Chen.
2204
2205 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2206
2207- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2208
2209- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2210 config file but -6 is not specified.
2211
2212- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2213
2214- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2215 be more helpful.
2216
2217- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2218 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2219 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2220
2221- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2222 was repaired.
2223
2224- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2225 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2226 been repaired.
2227
2228- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2229 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2230 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2231
49f61135
DH
2232- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2233 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2234
41d4652f
DH
2235- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2236 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2237 IPv4 address.
2238
2c9bf1f4
DH
2239- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2240 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2241 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2242 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2243 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2244
2245- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2246 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2247 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2248
cff9b78f
SK
2249- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2250
c4d29896
SK
2251- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2252
57fcb8d9
SK
2253- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2254 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2255 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2256 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
SK
2257 unnecessary logging.
2258
219a65eb
DH
2259- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2260 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2261
ffdf3c8c
DH
2262- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2263 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2264 is incompatible is printed.
2265
2266- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2267 a previously undefined option code.
2268
00a002fc
MA
2269- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2270 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2271
9a111ee8 2272- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2273 than the year 2000.
2274
e2cfde76
FD
2275- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2276
cabdb9b1
FD
2277- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2278
5d89d60f
FD
2279- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2280
61d75ea2
DH
2281 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2282
2283- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2284 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2285 configuration.
76db44f9 2286
e32529a5
EH
2287- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2288 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2289
9a111ee8 2290- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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SK
2291 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2292 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2293
9a111ee8
TM
2294- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2295 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
6f76de58
SK
2296 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2297 a requested address.
2298
703873ab
DH
2299- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2300 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2301 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2302 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2303
2304- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2305 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2306 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2307 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2308
b024480e
DH
2309- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2310 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2311 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2312
c0216cb7
DH
2313- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2314 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2315
1ac57173
FD
2316- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2317
83835822
DH
2318- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2319 codes through some conditions.
2320
c54db708
FD
2321- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2322 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2323
e5d83524
DH
2324- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2325 seemingly random values.
2326
821f2dda
DH
2327- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2328
f8b3c6f4
DH
2329- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2330 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2331 one ever has.
2332
9a111ee8
TM
2333- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2334 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
b9137d42
SK
2335 to a REQUEST.
2336
9f1d5a2f
DH
2337- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2338 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2339 level.
2340
e4a6be15
DH
2341 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2342
65cf86d7
EH
2343- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2344
b1d3778c
DH
2345- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2346 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2347 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2348 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2349 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2350
bead14ea
DH
2351- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2352 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2353 new address.
2354
f765ec36
SK
2355 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2356
75135a3f 2357- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2358 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
75135a3f
EH
2359 simultaneously on a single interface.
2360
5c2d55c7
EH
2361- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2362 of service under unusual server configurations
2363
2364- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2365
9a111ee8 2366- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2367 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2368
edb1283e
DH
2369- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2370 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2371 on every pool rebalance run.
2372
c71c6399
DH
2373- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2374 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2375
5279b8f3
DH
2376- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2377 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2378
ab3a540f 2379 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2380
9a111ee8 2381- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
884a458f
SK
2382 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2383
fa9b593d
DH
2384- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2385 point out the problem.
2386
9a111ee8 2387- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1b5053b5
SK
2388 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2389 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2390
c886c298
SK
2391- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2392 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2393
eaf7eb17
DH
2394- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2395 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2396 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2397
109e00db
DH
2398- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2399
9a111ee8 2400- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
3ad9d48f
SK
2401 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2402
8eab95f2
DH
2403- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2404 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2405 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2406 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2407
07b9a351
DH
2408- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2409
7285af30
DH
2410- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2411 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2412 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2413 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2414 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2415
2394b26b
DH
2416- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2417
ab3a540f
SK
2418 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2419
97050349
SK
2420- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2421 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2422
763cba6b 2423- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2424
237f8d3a 2425- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2426 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
237f8d3a
SK
2427 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2428
28868515
SK
2429- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2430
d00d373a
SK
2431- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2432 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2433
8dfd5744
DH
2434- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2435 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2436 loaded from persistent storage.
2437
45d545f0 2438- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2439 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2440 necessary.
2441
9a111ee8
TM
2442- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2443 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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SK
2444 rapid-commit option.
2445
845e9677
DH
2446- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2447 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2448
76c944da
SK
2449 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2450
71765b58
SK
2451- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2452 and fix.
2453
847e7000
SK
2454- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2455
bda33169
SK
2456- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2457
9b21e73e
SK
2458- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2459 for when loading configuration.
2460
8da06bb1
DH
2461- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2462 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2463 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2464
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2465- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2466 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2467 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2468 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2469
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2470- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2471
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2472- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2473 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2474
c11f349d
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2475- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2476
af5fa176
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2477- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2478
2479- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2480 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2481
a546f2a7
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2482- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2483 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2484
b55d0d5f
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2485- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2486
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2487- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2488 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2489
98bd7ca0
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2490 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2491
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2492- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2493
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2494- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2495 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2496
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2497- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2498
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2499- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2500 initialized.
2501
2502- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2503
2504- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2505 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2506
2507- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2508
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2509- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2510
2511- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2512 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2513
2514- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2515
8ea19a71 2516- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2517 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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2518
2519- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2520 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2521
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2522- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2523
2524- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2525
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2526- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2527
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2528 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2529
2530- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2531 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2532 no support currently for both.
2533
2534- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2535 IAADDR option.
2536
2537- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2538 options.
2539
2540- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2541
2542- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2543 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2544
2545- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2546 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2547 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2548
2549- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2550 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2551
2552- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2553 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2554 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2555 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2556 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2557 differently, they both use the same code here).
2558
2559- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2560 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2561 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2562
2563- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2564
2565- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2566 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2567 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2568 it should not intercept.
2569
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2570 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2571
2572- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2573 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2574 between primary and secondary.
2575
2576- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2577 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2578 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2579
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2580- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2581
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2582- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2583 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2584 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2585 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2586 or REQUEST messages.
2587
2588- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2589 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2590
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2591- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2592
b9d0cc05
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2593 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2594
adb95d23 2595- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
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2596 failover protected subnets was removed.
2597
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2598 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2599
2600- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2601 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2602 odd number of leases).
2603
2604- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2605 rebalance run, and one after.
2606
2607- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2608 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2609 processing these messages.
2610
fe5b0fdd 2611 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2612
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2613- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2614 objects.
2615
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2616- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2617 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2618 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2619 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2620 at Allianz.
2621
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2622- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2623 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2624
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2625- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2626 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2627
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2628- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2629 caused the server to abort.
2630
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2631- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2632 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2633 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2634
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2635- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2636 by empty spaces would not get included.
2637
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2638- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2639 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2640
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2641- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2642 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2643
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2644- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2645 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2646
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2647- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2648 on the parameter request list.
2649
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2650 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2651
2652- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2653
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2654 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2655
2656- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2657 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2658
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2659- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2660 domain-search option syntax.
2661
bdddcb7d
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2662 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2663
2664- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2665 hash table was repaired.
2666
616d67cb
DH
2667- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2668 entering normal state.
2669
2670- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2671 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
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2672 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2673
2674- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2675 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2676
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2677- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2678 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2679 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2680 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2681
45d545f0 2682- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
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2683 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2684 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2685 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2686 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2687 to their needs.
2688
2689- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2690 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2691 run will attempt balance.
2692
a7ee93fe
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2693- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2694
98311e4b
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2695 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2696
2697- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2698 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2699 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2700 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2701
98bd7ca0 2702- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2703 was introduced.
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2704
2705- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2706 via OMAPI.
2707
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2708- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2709 the protocol draft.
2710
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2711- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2712 one does not already exist on the system.
2713
b43c87ad 2714- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2715
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2716- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2717 matches RFC 3074.
2718
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2719- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2720 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2721 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2722
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2723- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2724 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2725 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2726
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DH
2727- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2728 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2729 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2730 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2731
2732- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2733 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2734 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2735 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2736
f7fdb216 2737- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2738 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2739 DHCPv6 support.
2740
5e864416
DH
2741- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2742 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2743 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2744
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2745- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2746 have been incorporated.
2747
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2748- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2749 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2750 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2751 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2752 that belong to the peer in need.
2753
2754- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2755 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2756
2757- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2758 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2759 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2760
334bf491
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2761- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2762 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2763
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2764- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2765 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2766 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2767 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2768 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2769
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2770- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2771 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2772 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2773 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2774
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2775- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2776 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2777 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2778 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2779 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2780 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2781 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2782 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2783 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2784
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2785- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2786 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2787
41e45067 2788- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
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2789 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2790 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2791 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2792
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2793- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2794 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2795 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2796 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2797
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2798- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2799 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2800 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2801 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2802 via Robin Breathe.
2803
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2804- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2805 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2806 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2807 from Christof Chen.
2808
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2809- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2810 formally supported.
2811
b8221d95
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2812 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2813
2814- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2815 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2816
c1e6c832
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2817 Changes since 3.0.5
2818
f546c28b
DH
2819- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2820 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2821 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2822 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
2823
2824- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2825
c1e6c832
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2826- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2827 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
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2828 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2829 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2830
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2831- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2832
d69fb6a8 2833- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2834 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2835
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2836- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2837 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2838 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2839 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2840 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2841 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2842 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
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2843 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2844
2845- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2846 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2847 'file' field.
02428754 2848
ecde99a3
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2849- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2850 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2851
67674ffb
DH
2852- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2853 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2854 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2855
830ebc4c
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2856- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2857 from Chris Wagner.
2858
c759db75
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2859- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2860 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2861 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2862
9aa3f3a5
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2863- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2864 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2865 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2866 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2867 was set.
2868
3d0c598a
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2869- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2870 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2871
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2872- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2873 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2874 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2875 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2876 active ones.
2877
02428754 2878 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2879
901306d5 2880- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
0a73b7b6
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2881 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2882 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2883 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2884 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2885
87a08ccc
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2886- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2887 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2888
6da113fb
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2889 Changes since 3.0.4
2890
2891- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2892 scopes are actually global has been added.
2893
2894- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2895 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2896 known to be damaging.
2897
2898- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2899 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2900 balancing).
2901
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2902- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2903 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2904 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2905
1b2ab55f
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2906- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2907 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2908 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2909
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2910- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2911 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2912 more clear now.
2913
6cbc6629
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2914- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2915 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2916 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2917 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2918 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2919 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2920
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2921- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2922 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2923
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2924- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2925 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2926 made possible.
2927
2bddf829
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2928- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2929 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2930 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2931
87578987
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2932- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2933 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2934
e77c575f
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2935- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2936 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2937 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2938
2178df03
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2939- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2940 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2941 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2942 value with the later configured value).
2943
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2944- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2945 have been named and documented.
2946
2947- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2948 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2949 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2950 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2951 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2952 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2953 write new output.
2954
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2955 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2956
2957- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2958 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2959
2960 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2961
2962- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2963 mailing list.
2964
88cd8aca
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2965 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2966
45d545f0 2967- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
88cd8aca
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2968 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2969
2970- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2971 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2972
2973- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2974 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2975 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2976 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2977
2978- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2979 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2980 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2981 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2982 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2983 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2984 transition (properly).
2985
2986- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2987
2988 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2989
2990- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2991 STDIN after reading one line.
2992
2993- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2994 descriptor it opened twice.
2995
2996- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2997 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2998 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2999
3000 Changes since 3.0.3
3001
3002- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
3003 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
3004 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
3005
3006- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
3007 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
3008 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
3009
3010- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
3011 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 3012 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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3013 leases to allocate.
3014
3015- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 3016 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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3017 than the entire block of them.
3018
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3019! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
3020 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
3021 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
3022 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
3023 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
3024 to a patch from infamous42md.
3025
3026! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
3027 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
3028 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
3029 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
3030 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
3031 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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3032
3033- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
3034 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
3035 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
3036
3037- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3038 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3039
3040- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3041 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3042 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3043 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3044 transitional states.
3045
3046- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3047 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3048 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3049
3050- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3051 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3052 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3053
3054- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3055 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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3056
3057- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3058 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3059
3060- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3061 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3062 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3063
3064- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3065 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3066
3067- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3068 repaired.
3069
3070- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3071 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3072 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3073 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3074
3075- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3076 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3077 data.
3078
3079- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3080 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3081 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3082 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3083 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3084
3085- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3086 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3087 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3088 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3089 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3090
3091- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3092 has been repaired.
3093
3094- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3095 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3096 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3097 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3098 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3099
3100- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3101 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3102
45d545f0 3103- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3104 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3105 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3106 move to 3.[01].x.
3107
3108- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3109 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3110
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3111 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3112
3113- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3114 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3115
3116- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3117 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3118 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3119 workaround.
3120
3121 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3122
3123- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3124 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3125
3126 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3127
3128- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3129 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3130 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3131
3132- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3133 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3134 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3135
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3136 Changes since 3.0.2
3137
3138- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3139 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3140 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3141
3142- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3143 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3144 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3145 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3146 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3147
3148- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3149 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3150 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3151
3152- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3153 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3154 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3155
3156- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3157 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3158 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3159 Peter Poeml.
3160
3161- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3162 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3163
3164- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3165 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3166 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3167 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3168 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3169 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3170
3171- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3172 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3173 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3174 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3175
3176- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3177 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3178 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3179 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3180
3181- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3182 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3183
3184- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3185 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3186 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3187
3188- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3189 7 bytes, and failover.
3190
3191- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3192 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3193 at Red Hat.
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3194
3195- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3196 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3197 should work better.
3198
3199- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3200 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3201 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3202
3203- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3204 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3205 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3206
3207 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3208
3209- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3210 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3211
3212 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3213
45d545f0 3214- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3215 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3216 overloading. This was repaired.
3217
3218- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3219 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3220 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3221 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3222 three chunks to fit.
3223
3224- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3225 were repaired.
3226
3227- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3228 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3229 leak).
3230
3231 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3232
3233- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3234 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3235
3236 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3237
3238- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3239
3240 Changes since 3.0.1
3241
3242- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3243 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3244 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3245
3246- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3247 name was not provided by the server.
3248
3249- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3250 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3251
3252- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3253 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3254
3255- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3256 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3257
3258- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3259
3260- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3261
3262- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3263 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3264 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3265 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3266 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3267
3268- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3269 the configuration be globally scoped.
3270
3271- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3272 Farkas.
3273
3274- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3275 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3276
3277- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3278 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3279
3280- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3281 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3282
3283- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3284 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3285 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3286 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3287
3288- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3289 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3290 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3291 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3292
3293- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3294 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3295 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3296
3297- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3298
3299- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3300 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3301 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3302
3303- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3304 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3305 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3306 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3307 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3308
3309- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3310 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3311
3312- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3313 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3314
3315- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3316 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3317 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3318 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3319
3320- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3321 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3322
3323- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3324 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3325 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3326
3327- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3328 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3329 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3330 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3331 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3332 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3333
3334- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3335 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3336 Infoblox.
3337
3338- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3339
3340- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3341 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3342 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3343 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3344 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3345 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3346 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3347
3348- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3349 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3350 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3351
3352- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3353 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3354 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3355
3356- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3357
3358 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3359
3360- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3361 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3362 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3363 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3364 systems either.
3365
3366- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3367
3368- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3369 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3370 is false.
3371
3372- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3373 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3374
3375- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3376
3377 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3378
3379! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3380 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3381 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3382 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3383 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3384 both finding and solving the problem.
3385
3386! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3387 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3388 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3389 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3390 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3391 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3392 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3393 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3394 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3395 published version of ISC DHCP.
3396
3397- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3398
3399- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3400
3401 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3402
3403- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3404 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3405 Richard Hirst.
3406
3407- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3408 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3409 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3410
3411- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3412
3413- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3414 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3415 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3416 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3417
3418- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3419 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3420
3421- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3422 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3423
3424- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3425
3426 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3427
3428- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3429 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3430
3431- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3432 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3433 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3434
3435- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3436 by name was fixed.
3437
45d545f0 3438- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3439 longer result in error.
3440
3441- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3442
3443- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3444 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3445 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3446
3447- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3448 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3449
3450- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3451 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3452 Blapp.
3453
3454- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3455 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3456 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3457 Martin Blapp.
3458
3459- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3460 expiry times in failover configurations.
3461
3462- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3463 Steve G.
3464
3465- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3466 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3467
3468- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3469 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3470 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3471 now "unknown-144".
3472
3473- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3474 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3475
3476 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3477
3478- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3479
3480- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3481 not be bash.
3482
3483- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3484
3485- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3486 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3487 that errored before will now work properly.
3488
3489- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3490 names was repaired.
3491
3492- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3493 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3494 configuration file.
3495
3496- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3497 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3498
3499- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3500 error rather than a null dereference.
3501
3502 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3503
3504- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3505
3506- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3507
3508- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3509 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3510
3511- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3512
3513- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3514
3515- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3516 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3517 self-corrupting lease databases.
3518
3519- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3520
3521- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3522 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3523
3524- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3525
3526- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3527
3528- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3529 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3530 Ling Gou.
3531
3532- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3533 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3534
3535- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3536 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3537 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3538
3539- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3540 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3541
3542 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3543
3544- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3545 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3546
3547- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3548
3549- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3550 a memory leak.
3551
3552- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3553 script.
3554
3555- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3556
3557- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3558
3559- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3560
3561- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3562
3563- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3564
3565- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3566
3567- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3568
3569- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3570
3571- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3572
3573- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3574
3575- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3576
3577- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3578
3579 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3580
3581- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3582 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3583 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3584
3585 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3586
3587- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3588 to be renewed.
3589
3590- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3591 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3592
3593- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3594 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3595
3596- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3597 that two permit lists matched.
3598
3599- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3600 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3601
3602- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3603
3604- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3605 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3606
3607- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3608
3609- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3610
3611- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3612 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3613 going to update its A record.
3614
3615- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3616 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3617 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3618 DNS server.
3619
3620- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3621
3622- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3623
3624- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3625 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3626 NetBSD project).
3627
3628- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3629 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3630
3631- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3632 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3633
3634- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3635
3636- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3637
3638- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3639 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3640 failover protocol standard.
3641
3642- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3643 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3644 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3645
3646- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3647 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3648 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3649 do so.
3650
3651- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3652
3653 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3654
3655- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3656
3657- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3658 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3659
3660- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3661 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3662
3663- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3664 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3665 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3666
3667- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3668 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3669 network, merge the two pools.
3670
3671- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3672 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3673 fix this bug.
3674
3675 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3676
3677- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3678 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3679
3680- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3681 the same case.
3682
3683- Additional documentation.
3684
3685- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3686 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3687
3688 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3689
3690- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3691- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3692
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3694
3695- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3696 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3697 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3698 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3699 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3700
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3702
3703- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3704 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3705 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3706 wasn't the one that removed it.
3707
3708- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3709 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3710 were not configured.
3711
3712- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3713
3714- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3715 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3716 routing information.
3717
3718- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3719 request being sent.
3720
3721- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3722 done.
3723
3724- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3725 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3726 were pending.
3727
3728- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3729 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3730 problems with failover.
3731
3732- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3733 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3734 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3735
adbef119 3736 Changes since 3.0
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3737
3738- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3739 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3740
3741- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3742 no object is open, it dumps core.
3743
3744- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3745
3746- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3747
3748- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3749
3750- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3751 a host object attribute with a null value.
3752
3753 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3754
3755- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3756
3757- Fix an obscure core dump.
3758
3759- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3760 when crucial information is left out.
3761
3762- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3763
3764- Documentation updates.
3765
3766 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3767
3768- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3769
3770- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3771 structure wasn't zeroed.
3772
3773- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3774 incorrectly.
3775
3776- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3777 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3778 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3779 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3780 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3781 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3782 restarted.
3783
3784 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3785
3786- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3787 in failover-enabled pools.
3788
3789- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3790 declarations).
3791
3792- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3793 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3794
3795- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3796 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3797
3798- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3799
3800- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3801 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3802
3803- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3804
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3806
3807- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3808
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3809 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3810
3811- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3812
3813- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3814
3815- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3816
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3817 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3818
3819- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3820 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3821 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3822
3823- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3824 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3825 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3826 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3827 string.
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3828
3829- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3830
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3831 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3832
3833- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3834 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3835
3836- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3837 malformed packets.
3838
3839- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3840
3841- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3842 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3843 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3844
3845- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3846
3847- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3848
3849- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3850
3851- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3852 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3853
3854- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3855 tcp connections from being played back.
3856
3857- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3858 on exit.
3859
3860- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3861
3862- Add some configurability to the build system.
3863
3864- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3865
3866- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3867 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3868 hadn't been noticed until now.
3869
3870 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3871
3872- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3873 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3874
3875- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3876 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3877 conformant, but also didn't work).
3878
3879- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3880 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3881
3882- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3883 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3884
3885- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3886 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3887
3888- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3889 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3890
3891- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3892 doing failover.
3893
3894- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3895 running on alpha processors.
3896
3897- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3898 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3899
3900- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3901
3902- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3903
3904- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3905 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3906
3907- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3908
3909- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3910 actually named (key names are domain names).
3911
3912- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3913
3914- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3915 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3916
3917- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3918 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3919
3920- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3921 statements.
3922
3923- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3924 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3925
3926- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3927 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3928 operating.
3929
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3930 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3931
3932- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3933 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3934 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3935 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3936
3937- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3938 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3939
3940- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3941
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3942 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3943
3944- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3945 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3946
3947- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3948 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3949 to the chain.
3950
3951- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3952
3953- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3954
3955- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3956
98311e4b 3957- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3958 attribute values in omshell.
3959
98311e4b 3960- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3961
3962- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3963
3964 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3965
3966- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3967 DHCPDECLINE.
3968
3969- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3970
3971- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3972 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3973 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3974
3975- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3976
3977- Documentation fixes.
3978
3979- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3980 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3981
3982- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3983 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3984
3985- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3986
3987- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3988
3989- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3990 case-insensitive.
3991
3992- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3993
98311e4b 3994- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3995 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3996 consistently.
3997
3998- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3999 systems with the probe not working correctly.
4000
4001- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
4002
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4003 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
4004
4005- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
4006 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
4007 result of duplicate leases.
4008
4009- Document OMAPI server objects.
4010
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4011 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
4012
4013- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
4014 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
4015
4016- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
4017 core dumps.
4018
4019- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
4020 Friedrich.
4021
4022- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
4023
4024 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
4025
4026- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
4027 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 4028 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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4029 billing class code.
4030
4031- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
4032 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
4033
4034- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
4035 trace file.
4036
79ea3de8 4037 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 4038
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4039- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4040 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4041 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4042 e.g., Digital Unix.
4043
4044- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4045 when no error had occurred.
4046
4047- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4048 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4049 non-communicating state.
4050
4051- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4052
4053- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4054 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4055 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4056
4057- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4058 when the client lease expired.
4059
4060- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4061 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4062 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4063 in testing.
4064
4065- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4066 the command line, it would fail.
4067
4068- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4069 user impact).
4070
4071- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4072
4073- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4074 they're executable.
4075
4076 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4077
4078- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4079 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4080 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4081 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4082
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4083- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4084 Transmeta.
4085
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4086- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4087 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4088 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4089 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4090
4091- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4092 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4093
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4094 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4095
4096- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4097 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4098
4099- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4100
4101- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4102
4103- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4104
4105- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4106
4107- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4108
4109- Update some parts of the README file.
4110
4111- Support GCC on SCO.
4112
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4114
4115- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4116 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4117
4118- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4119 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4120 unbill the old class.
4121
4122- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4123 process the state transition immediately.
4124
4125- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4126 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4127
4128- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4129
4130- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4131
4132- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4133
4134- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4135
4136- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4137 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4138 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4139
4140- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4141 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4142
4143- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4144 lease file.
4145
4146- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4147
4148- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4149
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4151
4152- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4153 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4154
4155- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4156
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4158
4159- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4160
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4162
4163- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4164
4165- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4166 pl19.
4167
4168- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4169 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4170 past the regression test.
4171
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4173
4174- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4175 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4176
4177- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4178 DHCPREQUEST.
4179
4180- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4181
4182- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4183
4184- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4185
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4188- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4189 (Damien Neil)
4190
4191- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4192 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4193
4194- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4195 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4196 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4197
4198- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4199 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4200 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4201 message.
4202
4203- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4204 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4205 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4206
98311e4b 4207- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4208 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4209 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4210 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4211 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4212 this way will work.
4213
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4214- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4215
4216- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4217 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4218 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4219 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4220
4221 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4222
4223 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4224
4225- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4226 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4227 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4228
4229- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4230 Hermann Lauer.
4231
4232- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4233 messages.
4234
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4235- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4236 it contained quoted strings.
4237
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4238 ** there was no pl17 **
4239
adbef119 4240 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 4241
6da9db9d
TL
4242- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4243 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4244 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4245 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4246 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4247 tracking down memory leaks.
4248
4249- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4250 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4251 Solaris.
4252
4253- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4254 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4255 corruption and core dumps.
4256
4257- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4258 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4259
4260- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4261
4262- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4263 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4264
4265- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4266 name and version to standard output.
4267
4268- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4269
e6d30fd6
TL
4270- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4271 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4272
6da9db9d
TL
4273- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4274
4275- Lots of documentation updates.
4276
4277- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4278 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4279
4280- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4281
4282- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4283 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4284
adbef119 4285 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
af49fdff
TL
4286
4287- Some documentation tweaks.
4288
4289- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4290
4291- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4292
4293- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4294 agent options into them.
4295
4296- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4297
c5b569f8
TL
4298- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4299 options.
4300
adbef119 4301 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
754ae3e9
TL
4302
4303- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4304 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4305 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4306 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4307 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4308
4309- Fix up documentation.
4310
4311- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4312 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4313
4314- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4315
4316- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4317
4318- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4319 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4320 practical use otherwise.
4321
4322- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4323 for debugging.
4324
adbef119 4325 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 13
2f2e7960
TL
4326
4327- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4328 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4329 dump on some systems.
4330
4331- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4332 option.
4333
4334- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4335 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4336
4337- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4338 that were not printing enough information.
4339
4340- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4341 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4342
4343- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4344 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4345 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4346 were answering.
4347
4348- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4349 the transition.
9a111ee8 4350
2f2e7960 4351
adbef119 4352 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
TL
4353
4354- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4355
a1e2e3d6
TL
4356 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4357
4358- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4359 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4360 representation from working correctly.
4361
4362- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4363 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4364 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4365 could spin.
4366
4367- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4368 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4369
4370- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4371 interface name on the command line.
4372
4373- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4374 client state.
4375
4376- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4377 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4378 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4379 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4380 added by Ted Lemon.
4381
4382- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4383 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4384
4385- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4386 end option.
4387
4388- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4389 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4390 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4391
4392- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4393 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4394 face of a null hardware address on input.
4395
4396- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4397 specified unqualified.
4398
4399- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4400 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4401
4402- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4403 RFC.
4404
4405- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4406
4407- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4408
4409- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4410 it works.
4411
6c68ec36
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4412 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4413
4414- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4415 to CVS.
4416
9fd337e7
TL
4417 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4418
4419- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4420
4421- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4422 in patchlevel 9.
4423
4424- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4425 options at renewal time.
4426
4427- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4428 configuration language.
4429
4430- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4431
4432- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4433 done when no client hostname was received.
4434
4435- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4436
4437- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4438 the DHCP option space.
4439
4440- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4441
4442- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4443 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4444
4445- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4446 silently dropped.
4447
4448- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4449 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4450
4451- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4452 will be correctly updated.
4453
3922772a
TL
4454 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4455
4456- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4457 bounds-checking.
4458
4459 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
4460
4461- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4462
3922772a 4463 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 4464
f8572308
TL
4465- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4466 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4467 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4468
4469- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4470 option.
4471
4472- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4473 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4474 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4475 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4476 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4477 meaningfully.
4478
4479- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4480 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4481 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4482
4483- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4484 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4485 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4486 this one down!
4487
4488- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4489 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4490 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4491 down and fixing this problem.
4492
4493 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4494
0f6045f8
TL
4495- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4496 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4497
4498- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4499 environment.
4500
4501- Fix suffix operator.
4502
4503- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4504
4505- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4506 connection code.
4507
4508- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4509
4510- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4511
4512- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4513 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4514
4515- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4516
4517- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4518
4519- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4520 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4521
4522- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4523 spawn with.
4524
4525- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4526 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4527
4528- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4529 for OMAPI.
4530
4531- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4532 can install in host declarations.
4533
801de092
TL
4534 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4535
4536- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4537 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4538 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4539 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4540 comments)!
4541
4542- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4543
6ed7a93d
TL
4544- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4545 request for help on this with patches!
4546
4547- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4548 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4549 lost, they never reconnect.
4550
4551- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4552 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4553
4554- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4555 dump.
4556
4557- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4558 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4559 catching this one.
4560
490eb5e7
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4561 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4562
4563- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4564 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
TL
4565 lease renewal time.
4566
4567- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4568 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4569 declared without a key.
4570
4571- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4572
4573- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4574 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4575
4576- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4577 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4578 determine the maximum size of the response.
4579
592d8153
TL
4580 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4581
359b023e
TL
4582- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4583 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4584
592d8153
TL
4585- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4586 RENEWING client.
4587
4588- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4589
4590- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4591 using memcmp().
4592
2aa36519
TL
4593 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4594
4595- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4596 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4597 pointing this out.
4598
4599- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4600 exit.
4601
4602- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4603
4604- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4605 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.