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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.3.3
3 03 September 2015
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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
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
98bf1607 24
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
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55 Changes since 4.3.3
56
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57- Fixed several potential null references. Thanks to Bill Parker
58 (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied
59 patches to address them.
60 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
61
4745d807 62- The linux packet filter code now correctly treats only least significant
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63 12 bits an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
64 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
65 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
66 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
67 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
68
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69- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
70 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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72- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
73 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
74 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entires for DHCPv4 and
75 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
76 keep the previous behavior.
1b9c329e 77 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
646acb59 78
7da1ac2b 79 Changes since 4.3.3b1
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80- None
81
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82 Changes since 4.3.2
83
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84- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
85 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
86 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
87 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
88 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
89 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
90 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
91
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92- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
93 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
94 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
95 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
96 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
97 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
98 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
99 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
100 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
101 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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102 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for this issue and his patch which
103 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 104 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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106- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
107 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
108 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
109 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 110 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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112- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
113 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
114 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
115 a proper length for it.
116 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
117
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118- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
119 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
120 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
121 reasonable to remove it.
122 [ISC-Buts #39019]
123
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124- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
125 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
126 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
127 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
128
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129- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
130 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
131 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
132 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
133 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
134
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135- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
136 table 3.
137 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
138
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139- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
140 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
141 the issue and suggesting the patch.
142 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
143
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144- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
145 of as a token.
146 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
147
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148- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
149 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
150 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
151 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
152 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
153 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
154 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
155
cca6a648 156- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
157 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
158 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
159 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
160
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161- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
162 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
163 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
164
cca6a648 165- Corrected a crash in dhclient that occurs during lease renewal if the
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166 client is performing its own DNS updates. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
167 for the bug report.
cca6a648 168 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
169
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170- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
171 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
172 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
173 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
174 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
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175 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
176 reporting the issue.
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177 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
178
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179- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
180 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
181 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
182 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
183 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
184 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
185 itself.
186 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
187
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188- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
189 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
190 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
191 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
192
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193- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
194 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
195 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
196 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
197
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198- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
199 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
200 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
201 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
202 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
203
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204- Fixed a server crash that could occur when the server attempts to remove
205 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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206 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
207 issue.
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208 [ISC-Bugs #39978]
209
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210- LDAP Patches - Numerous small patches submitted by contributors have
211 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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212 In addition, two larger submissions have also been included. The
213 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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214 GSSAPI authentication. We would like to thank the following for their
215 contributions (alphabetically):
216 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 217 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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218 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
219 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 220 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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221 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
222 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
223 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
224 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
225 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
226 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
227 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
228 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
229 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
230 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
231 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
232 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
233 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
234 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
235
af25ded3 236- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
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237 Thanks to Frédéric Perrin from Brocade for finding the issue
238 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 239 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
af25ded3 240
b31fe1d5 241 Changes since 4.3.2rc2
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242- None
243
244 Changes since 4.3.2rc1
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246- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
247 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
248 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
249 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
250 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
251
45adf35c 252 Changes since 4.3.2b1
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45adf35c 254- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 255 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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256 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
257 the issue.
4e1bf548 258 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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260- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
261 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
262 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
263 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
264 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
265 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
266 tests.
267 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
268 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
269 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
270 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
271 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
272 use the command "make -k check".
273 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
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36e2c224 275 Changes since 4.3.1
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277- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
278 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
279
3ffc07de 280- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
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281 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
282 and hmac-sha512
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283 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
284
fa54ba10 285- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
45adf35c 286 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
fa54ba10 287 patch.
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288 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
289
fa54ba10 290- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
45adf35c 291 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
fa54ba10 292 provided the patch.
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293 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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295- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
296 after the configuration file has been processed.
297 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
298
36e2c224 299- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
6444928c 300 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
c7c11ea1 301 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
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302 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
303 compilers that was introduced by #36712
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305- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
306 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
307
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308- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
309 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
310 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
311 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
312 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
adb95d23 313 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
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314 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
315
bd49432f 316- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
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317 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
318 bug report and patch.
bd49432f 319 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
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320 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
321 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
322 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
323 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
324
325- Addressed checksum issues:
326 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
327 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
328 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
329 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
330 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
331 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
332 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
333 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
334 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
45adf35c 335 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
7ff6ae5a 336 than being dropped.
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337 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
338 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
339
340- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
341 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
342 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
343 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
344 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
345 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
346 inbound request to a known subnet.
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347 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
348 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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350- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
351 BOOTP request handling.
352 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
353
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354- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
355 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
356 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
357 the patch upon which the fix is based.
358 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
359
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360- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
361 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
362 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
363 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
364 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
365 modified to send requests more often.
366 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
367 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
368
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369- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
370 name from the following in order of preference:
371
372 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
373 2. Host name option if provided by the client
374 3. Configured option host-name if defined
375
376 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
377 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
378 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
379 and no other value is available.
380 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
381
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382- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
383 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
384 corrected.
385 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
59990751 386 [ISC-Bugs #38686]
f3a44c10 387
04daf4fe 388- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
45adf35c 389 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
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390 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
391 components.
392 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
393
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394- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
395 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
396 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
ebb1d91e 397 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
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398 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
399 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
adb95d23 400 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
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401 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
402
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403- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
404 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
405 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
406 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
407 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
408 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
409 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
410 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
411
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412- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
413 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
414 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
415 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
416 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
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417 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
418 bug and supplying a patch.
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419 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
420
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421- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
422 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
423 leae expiration code.
424 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
425
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426- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
427 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
428 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
429 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
430 files.
431 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
001b9d53 432 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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434- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
435 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
436 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
437 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
438
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439- Modified linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
440 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
441 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
442 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
443 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
444 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
445 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
446 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
447 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
448
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449- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
450 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
451 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
452 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
453 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
454 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
455 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
456 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
457 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
458
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459- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
460 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
461 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
462 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
463 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
464 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
465 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
466 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
467 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
f48dfdf1 468 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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470- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
471 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
472 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
473 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
474 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
475 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
476 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
477 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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479
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480 Changes since 4.3.1b1
481
482- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
483 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
484 bug report and patch.
f542e92b 485 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
7d9dd306 486
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487- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
488 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
489 code consistent across versions.
490 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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57187138 492 Changes since 4.3.0
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5ade3c84 494- Tidy up several small tickets.
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495 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
496 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
9a111ee8 497 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
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498 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
499 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
500 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
501 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
502 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
503 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
504 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
01a44a77 505
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506- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
507 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
508
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509- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
510 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
511 Popelka at Red Hat.
512 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
513
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514- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
515 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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5ade3c84 517- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
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518 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
519
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520- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
521 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
522 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
523
5ade3c84 524- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
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525 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
526 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
527 option in the list.
528 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
529
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530- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
531 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
532 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 533 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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535- Remove unused RCSID tags.
536 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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538- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
539 for MRT limit it to MRD.
5ade3c84 540 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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542
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543- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
544 when a server, relay or client are killed.
545 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
546 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
547
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548- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
549 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
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550 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
551 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
552 given the "-1" argument.
5ade3c84 553 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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554 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
555 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
556 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
557 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
558 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
559 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
560 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
561 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
562
5ade3c84 563- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
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564 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
565 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
566 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
567 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
5ade3c84 568 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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569 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
570 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
571 to syslog.
572
5ade3c84 573- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
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574 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
575 number in syslog messages.
576 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
577 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
578
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579- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
580 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
581 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
582 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
63c8800c 583 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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585- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
586 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
587 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
588 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
589 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
590 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
591
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592- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
593 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
594 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
595
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596- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
597 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
598 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
599
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600- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
601 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
602 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
603
a89fd0cd 604- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
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605 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
606 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
607 in a pool are used.
608 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
609
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610- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
611 on an error condition.
e9326fd0 612 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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614- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
615 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
616
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617- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
618 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
619 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
620
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622
623- None
624 Changes since 4.3.0b1
625
626- Tidy up receive packet processing.
627 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
628 a possible patch.
629 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
630
631 Changes since 4.3.0a1
632
633- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
634 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
635 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
636 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
637
638- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
639 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
640
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643- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
644 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
645 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
646 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
647 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
648 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 649 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 650 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 651 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 652 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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654- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
655 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
656 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
657
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658- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
659 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
660 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
661 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 662 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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664- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
665 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
666 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
667 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
668 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
669 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
670
a7341359 671- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 672 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
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674- Add support for using classes with v6.
675 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
676
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677- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
678 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
679 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
680 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
681 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
682 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
683 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 684 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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686- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
687 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
688 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
689 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
690 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
691 not recommended.
64fb661c 692 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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694- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
695 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
696 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
697 This is "Server starting service.".
698 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
699 its failover peer are in the normal state.
700 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 701 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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703- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
704 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
705 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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706 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
707 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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708 man page for a description.
709 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
710
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80778e94 712 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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713 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
714 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
715 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
716 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
717 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
718
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719- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
720 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
721 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
722 one instance of their respective address types.
723 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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725- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
726 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
727 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
728 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 729 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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730 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
731 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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733- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
734 and take host declarations into account.
735 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
736 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
737
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738- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
739 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
740 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
741 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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743- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
744 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 745 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 747 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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749- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
750 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 751
01a44a77 752- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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754- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
755 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 756
01a44a77 757- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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759- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
760 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
761 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
762 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
763 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
764 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 765
01a44a77 766- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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768- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
769 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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771- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
772 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
773 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
774 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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776- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
777 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
778 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
779 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
780 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
781 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
782 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
783 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
784 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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786- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
787 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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790 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
791 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
792 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 793
01a44a77 794- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
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796- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
797 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
798 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
799 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
800 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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802- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
803 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
804 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
805 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
806 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 807
01a44a77 808- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
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810- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
811 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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813- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
814 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
815 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
816 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
817 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
818 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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820- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
821 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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823 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
824 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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826 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
827 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
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829 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
830 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 831
01a44a77 832- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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834- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
835 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
836 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
837 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
838 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
839 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
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841- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
842 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
843 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
844 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
845 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
846 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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848- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
849 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
850 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 851
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852- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
853 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
854 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
855 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
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857- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
858 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 859
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860- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
861 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
862 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
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864- Minor code fixes
865 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
866 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
867 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
868 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
869 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
870 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 871 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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872 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
873 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
874 Thanks to Martin Pala.
875 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
876 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 877
01a44a77 878- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
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880- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
881 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 882
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883- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
884 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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886- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
887 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 888
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889- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
890 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
891 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 892
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893- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
894 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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896- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
897 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
898 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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900- Fixes to lease input and output.
901 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
902 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
903 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
904 characters.
905 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
906 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
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908- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
909 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
910 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
911 at Red Hat.
912 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
913 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
914 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 915 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
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917- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
918 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
919 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
920 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
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923 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
924 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
925 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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927- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
928 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
929 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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931- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
932 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
933 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
934 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
935 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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937- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
938 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
939 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
940 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
941 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 942
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944 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
945 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
946 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
947 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 948 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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950- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
951 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
952 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 953
adb95d23 954- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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955 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
956 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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958- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
959 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
960 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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962- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
963 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
964 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
965 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
966 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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968- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
969 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
970 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
971 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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973! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
974 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
975 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
976 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
977 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
978 and reset its timeout value.
979 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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981- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
982 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
983 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
984 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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987 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
988 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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991 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 992 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 993 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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995- Some fixes for LDAP
996 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
997 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
998 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 999
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1000- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1001 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1002
1003! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1004 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1005 interfaces with the OS.
1006 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1007 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1009- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1010 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1011
1012- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1013 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1014 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1015 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1016 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1017 in v6 mode at configure time.
1018 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1020- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1021 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1022 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1023 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1025- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1026 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1027 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1028 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1029 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1031- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1032 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1033 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1034 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1035 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1037- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1038 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1039 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1040 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1041 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1043- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1044 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1045 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1047- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1048 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1049 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1050 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1051 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1053- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1054 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1055 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1056
1057- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1058 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1059 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1060
1061- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1062 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1063 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1064 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1065 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1066 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1067
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1069 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1070 responses to the all-ones address.
1071 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1072 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1073
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1074- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1075 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1076 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1077 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1078
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1079- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1080 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1081
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1082- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1083 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1084 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1085
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1086- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1087 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1088 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1089 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1090 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1091 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1092 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1093 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1094 enable this except for testing purposes.
1095 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1096 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1097
c616de4f 1098- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1099 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1100
1101- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1102
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1103- Client Script fixes
1104 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1105 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1106 the domain search address is link local.
1107 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1108 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1109 being changed.
1110
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1111- Documentation cleanup
1112 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1113
9a111ee8 1114- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1115 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1116
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1117- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1118 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1119 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1120 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1121
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1122- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1123 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1124 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1125
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1126- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1127 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1128
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1129- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1130 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1131 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1132 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1133 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1134 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1135
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1136- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1137 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1138 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1139 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1140 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1141 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1142 in site.h then server will be terminated
1143 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1144
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1145! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1146 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1147 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1148 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1149 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1150 CVE-2011-2748
1151 CVE-2011-2749
1152
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1153- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1154 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1155 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1156 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1157
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1158- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1159 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1160
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1161- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1162 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1163
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1164- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1165 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1166
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1167! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1168 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1169 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1170 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1171 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1172 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1173
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1174! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1175 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1176 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1177 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1178 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1179 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1180 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1181 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1182 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1183 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1184 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1185 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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1187- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1188 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1189 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1190 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1191
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1192- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1193 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1194 from the DNS client code.
1195 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1196
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1197- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1198 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1199
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1200- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1201 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1202 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1203 some issues we found in the socket code.
1204 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1205
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1206- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1207 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1208 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1209 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1210
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1211- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1212 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1213
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1214- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1215 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1216 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1217 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1218 weren't removed from the DNS.
1219 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1220
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1221- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1222 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1223 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1224 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1225
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1226- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1227 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1228 dynamic bootp clients.
1229 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1230
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1231- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1232 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1233 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1234 handing it out.
1235 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1236 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1237 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1238 for different IAs.
1239 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1240 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1241
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1242- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1243 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1244 an int as a boolean).
1245 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1246
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1247- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1248 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1249 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1250 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1251 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1252 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1253 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1254 may be removed in the future.
1255 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1256 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1257
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1258- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1259 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1260 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1261 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1262
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1263- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1264 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1265 report and the first version of the patch.
1266 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1267
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1268- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1269 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1270 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1271 for reporting this issue.
1272 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1273
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1274- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1275 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1276 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1277 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1278 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1279 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1280 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1281 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1282 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1283 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1284
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1285! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1286 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1287 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1288 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1289 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1290 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1291 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1292 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1293 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1294 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1295 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1296 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1297
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1298! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1299 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1300 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1301 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1302 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1303 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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1305! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1306 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1307 this issue.
1308 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1309 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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1311- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1312 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1313 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1314 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1315 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1316 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1317
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1318! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1319 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1320 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1321 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1322 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1323 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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1325- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1326 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1327
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1328- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1329 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1330 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1331 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1332 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1333 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1334
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1335- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1336 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1337 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1338 freed in other cases.
1339 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1340
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1341- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1342 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1343 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1344 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1345 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1346 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1347 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1348 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1349
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1350- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1351 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1352 and patches.
1353 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1354
9a111ee8 1355- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1356 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1357
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1358- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1359 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1360 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1361
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1362- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1363 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1364 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1365 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1366 variables.
1367 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1368
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1369- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1370 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1371 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1372 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1373 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1374 enabling it.
1375 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1376
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1377- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1378 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1379
adb95d23 1380- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1381 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1382 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1383 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1384 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1385
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1386- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1387 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1388 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1389 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1390 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1391
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1392- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1393 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1394
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1395- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1396 and comment out a currently unused test.
1397 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1398
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1399- Address static analysis warnings.
1400 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1401
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1402- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1403 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1404
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1405- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1406 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1407
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1408- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1409 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1410
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1411- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1412 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1413 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1414
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1415- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1416 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1417 for the patch.
1418 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1419
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1420- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1421 objects.
1422 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1423
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1424- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1425 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1426 to work more consistently.
1427 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1428
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1429- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1430 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1431 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1432
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1433- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1434 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1435
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1436- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1437 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1438 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1439 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1440 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1441
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1442- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1443 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1444
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1445- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1446 to the clients.
1447 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1448
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1449- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1450 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1451
7aa153b8 1452
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1453 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1454
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1455- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1456 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1457 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1458
0829d595
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1459- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1460 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1461 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1462
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1463- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1464 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1465
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1466- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1467
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1468- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1469 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1470 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1471 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1472 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1473 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1474
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1475- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1476 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1477 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1478 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1479 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1480 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1481 FQDN options by default).
1482
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1483- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1484 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1485 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1486 determined lease time) are omitted.
1487
adb95d23 1488- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1489 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1490 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1491
1492- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1493 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1494 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1495
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1496 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1497
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1498- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1499
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1500- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1501
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1502- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1503 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1504 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1505 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1506 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1507
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1508- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1509
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1510- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1511 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1512 had been deleted from configuration.
1513
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1514- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1515 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1516 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1517 were being ignored.
1518
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1519- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1520
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1521- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1522 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1523 Nordahl.
1524
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1525- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1526 dhcpv6 disabled.
1527
8d7dca58 1528- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1529 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1530
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1531- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1532 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1533
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1534- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1535 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1536 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1537
1538- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1539 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1540 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1541 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1542 fewer system calls.
1543
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1544- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1545 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1546 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1547 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1548 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1549 Christof Chen.
1550
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1551- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1552 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1553 and in normal state.
1554
1555- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1556 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1557
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1558- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1559
1560- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1561 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1562 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1563
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1564- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1565 rather than restarting the listener.
1566
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1567- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1568 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1569
1570- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1571 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1572 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1573
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1574- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1575 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1576 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1577 timeouts).
1578
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1579- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1580 in failover state records.
1581
8a4e543b
DH
1582! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1583 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1584 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1585 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1586
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1587- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1588 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1589
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1590- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1591 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1592 last option definition is used.
1593
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1594- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1595 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1596 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1597
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1598- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1599 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1600
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1601- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1602 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1603 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1604 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1605 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1606 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1607
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1608- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1609 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1610 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1611 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1612
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1613! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1614 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1615
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SR
1616- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1617 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1618
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1619- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1620 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1621 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1622 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1623 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1624 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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1625 configuration.
1626
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DH
1627- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1628 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1629
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SR
1630- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1631 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1632 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1633 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1634
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SR
1635- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1636 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1637 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 1638 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 1639
adbef119 1640 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
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1641
1642- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1643 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1644
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1645 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1646
1647- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1648 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1649 "abandoned".
1650
6ff3b26d
FD
1651- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1652
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1653- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1654 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1655
1656- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1657 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1658
1659- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1660 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1661
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DH
1662- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1663
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DH
1664- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1665 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1666 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1667 in future releases.
1668
f1672d89
DH
1669- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1670 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1671
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1672- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1673 'dhclient -6' support.
1674
efa5e6b9
DH
1675- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1676 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1677 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1678 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1679
7d6180be 1680 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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1681
1682- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1683
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1684- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1685
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EH
1686- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1687 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1688 only the latter. Fixed.
1689
535485df
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1690- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1691
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DH
1692- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1693 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1694
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1695- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1696
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1697- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1698
63971a83
DH
1699- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1700 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1701 --enable-early-chroot.
1702
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DH
1703- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1704 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1705
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1706- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1707 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1708 parameter.
1709
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1710- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1711 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1712
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DH
1713- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1714 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1715
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FD
1716- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1717
9322442f
FD
1718- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1719
8dea7ba7
FD
1720- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1721
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DH
1722- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1723
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DH
1724- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1725 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1726 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1727
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FD
1728- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1729 support.
1730
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DH
1731- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1732 repaired.
1733
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FD
1734- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1735
ffbaa880
FD
1736- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1737
7de20a95
EH
1738- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1739 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1740
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1741- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1742 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1743
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DH
1744- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1745 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1746
1747- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1748 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1749 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1750 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1751 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1752 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1753 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1754 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1755 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1756 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1757 shared-network.
1758
1759- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1760 configured option values.
1761
1762- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1763 support class statements.
1764
adb95d23 1765- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
1766 selection were repaired.
1767
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1768- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1769 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1770 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1771 by the OS.
1772
1773- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1774 address.
1775
1776- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1777 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1778
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DH
1779- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1780
1781- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1782
1783- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1784 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1785
01a54c17 1786 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1787
6d7f9584
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1788- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1789
4cafb815 1790- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1791 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1792
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1793- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1794 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1795 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1796
9a111ee8 1797- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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1798 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1799
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1800- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1801
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1802- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1803 reserved IDs avoided).
1804
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FD
1805- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1806
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1807- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1808 carries a rapid-commit option.
1809
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FD
1810- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1811 an empty active lease.
1812
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FD
1813- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1814
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1815- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1816 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1817 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1818 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1819
adb95d23 1820- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
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1821
1822- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1823 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1824 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1825 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1826 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1827 Christof Chen.
1828
1829 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1830
1831- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1832
1833- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1834 config file but -6 is not specified.
1835
1836- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1837
1838- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1839 be more helpful.
1840
1841- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1842 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1843 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1844
1845- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1846 was repaired.
1847
1848- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1849 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1850 been repaired.
1851
1852- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1853 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1854 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1855
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1856- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1857 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1858
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1859- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1860 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1861 IPv4 address.
1862
2c9bf1f4
DH
1863- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1864 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1865 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1866 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1867 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1868
1869- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1870 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1871 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1872
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1873- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1874
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1875- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1876
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1877- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1878 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1879 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 1880 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
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1881 unnecessary logging.
1882
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1883- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1884 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1885
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DH
1886- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1887 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1888 is incompatible is printed.
1889
1890- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1891 a previously undefined option code.
1892
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MA
1893- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1894 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1895
9a111ee8 1896- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
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1897 than the year 2000.
1898
e2cfde76
FD
1899- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1900
cabdb9b1
FD
1901- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1902
5d89d60f
FD
1903- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1904
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DH
1905 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1906
1907- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1908 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1909 configuration.
76db44f9 1910
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1911- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1912 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1913
9a111ee8 1914- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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1915 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1916 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1917
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1918- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1919 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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1920 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1921 a requested address.
1922
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1923- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1924 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1925 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1926 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1927
1928- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1929 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1930 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1931 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1932
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1933- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1934 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1935 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1936
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1937- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1938 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1939
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1940- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1941
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1942- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1943 codes through some conditions.
1944
c54db708
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1945- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1946 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1947
e5d83524
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1948- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1949 seemingly random values.
1950
821f2dda
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1951- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1952
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1953- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1954 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1955 one ever has.
1956
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1957- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1958 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
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1959 to a REQUEST.
1960
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1961- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1962 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1963 level.
1964
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1965 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1966
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1967- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1968
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1969- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1970 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1971 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1972 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1973 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1974
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1975- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1976 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1977 new address.
1978
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1979 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1980
75135a3f 1981- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 1982 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
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1983 simultaneously on a single interface.
1984
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1985- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1986 of service under unusual server configurations
1987
1988- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1989
9a111ee8 1990- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 1991 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1992
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1993- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1994 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1995 on every pool rebalance run.
1996
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1997- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1998 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1999
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2000- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2001 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2002
ab3a540f 2003 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2004
9a111ee8 2005- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2006 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2007
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2008- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2009 point out the problem.
2010
9a111ee8 2011- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
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2012 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2013 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2014
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2015- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2016 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2017
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2018- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2019 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2020 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2021
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2022- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2023
9a111ee8 2024- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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2025 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2026
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2027- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2028 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2029 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2030 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2031
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2032- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2033
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2034- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2035 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2036 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2037 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2038 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2039
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2040- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2041
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2042 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2043
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2044- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2045 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2046
763cba6b 2047- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2048
237f8d3a 2049- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2050 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
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2051 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2052
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2053- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2054
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2055- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2056 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2057
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2058- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2059 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2060 loaded from persistent storage.
2061
45d545f0 2062- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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2063 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2064 necessary.
2065
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2066- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2067 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2068 rapid-commit option.
2069
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2070- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2071 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2072
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2073 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2074
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2075- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2076 and fix.
2077
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2078- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2079
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2080- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2081
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2082- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2083 for when loading configuration.
2084
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2085- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2086 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2087 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2088
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2089- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2090 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2091 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2092 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2093
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2094- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2095
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2096- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2097 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2098
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2099- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2100
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2101- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2102
2103- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2104 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2105
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2106- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2107 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2108
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2109- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2110
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2111- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2112 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2113
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2114 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2115
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2116- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2117
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2118- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2119 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2120
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2121- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2122
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2123- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2124 initialized.
2125
2126- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2127
2128- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2129 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2130
2131- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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2133- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2134
2135- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2136 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2137
2138- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2139
8ea19a71 2140- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2141 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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2142
2143- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2144 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2145
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2146- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2147
2148- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2149
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2150- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2151
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2152 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2153
2154- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2155 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2156 no support currently for both.
2157
2158- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2159 IAADDR option.
2160
2161- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2162 options.
2163
2164- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2165
2166- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2167 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2168
2169- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2170 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2171 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2172
2173- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2174 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2175
2176- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2177 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2178 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2179 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2180 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2181 differently, they both use the same code here).
2182
2183- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2184 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2185 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2186
2187- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2188
2189- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2190 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2191 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2192 it should not intercept.
2193
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2194 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2195
2196- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2197 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2198 between primary and secondary.
2199
2200- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2201 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2202 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2203
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2204- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2205
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2206- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2207 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2208 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2209 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2210 or REQUEST messages.
2211
2212- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2213 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2214
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2215- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2216
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2217 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2218
adb95d23 2219- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
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2220 failover protected subnets was removed.
2221
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2222 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2223
2224- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2225 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2226 odd number of leases).
2227
2228- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2229 rebalance run, and one after.
2230
2231- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2232 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2233 processing these messages.
2234
fe5b0fdd 2235 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2236
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2237- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2238 objects.
2239
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2240- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2241 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2242 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2243 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2244 at Allianz.
2245
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2246- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2247 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2248
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2249- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2250 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2251
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2252- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2253 caused the server to abort.
2254
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2255- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2256 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2257 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2258
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2259- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2260 by empty spaces would not get included.
2261
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2262- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2263 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2264
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2265- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2266 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2267
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2268- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2269 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2270
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2271- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2272 on the parameter request list.
2273
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2274 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2275
2276- Some spelling fixes.
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2278 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2279
2280- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2281 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2282
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2283- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2284 domain-search option syntax.
2285
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2286 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2287
2288- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2289 hash table was repaired.
2290
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2291- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2292 entering normal state.
2293
2294- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2295 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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2296 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2297
2298- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2299 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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2301- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2302 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2303 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2304 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2305
45d545f0 2306- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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2307 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2308 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2309 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2310 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2311 to their needs.
2312
2313- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2314 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2315 run will attempt balance.
2316
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2317- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2318
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2319 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2320
2321- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2322 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2323 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2324 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2325
98bd7ca0 2326- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2327 was introduced.
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2328
2329- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2330 via OMAPI.
2331
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2332- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2333 the protocol draft.
2334
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2335- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2336 one does not already exist on the system.
2337
b43c87ad 2338- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2339
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2340- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2341 matches RFC 3074.
2342
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2343- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2344 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2345 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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2347- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2348 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2349 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2350
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2351- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2352 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2353 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2354 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2355
2356- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2357 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2358 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2359 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2360
f7fdb216 2361- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2362 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2363 DHCPv6 support.
2364
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2365- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2366 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2367 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2368
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2369- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2370 have been incorporated.
2371
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2372- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2373 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2374 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2375 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2376 that belong to the peer in need.
2377
2378- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2379 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2380
2381- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2382 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2383 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2384
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2385- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2386 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2387
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2388- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2389 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2390 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2391 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2392 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2393
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2394- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2395 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2396 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2397 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2398
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2399- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2400 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2401 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2402 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2403 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2404 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2405 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2406 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2407 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2408
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2409- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2410 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2411
41e45067 2412- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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2413 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2414 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2415 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2416
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2417- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2418 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2419 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2420 hardware and funding the development.
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2422- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2423 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2424 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2425 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2426 via Robin Breathe.
2427
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2428- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2429 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2430 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2431 from Christof Chen.
2432
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2433- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2434 formally supported.
2435
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2436 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2437
2438- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2439 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2440
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2441 Changes since 3.0.5
2442
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2443- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2444 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2445 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2446 they actually received.
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2447
2448- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2449
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2450- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2451 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2452 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2453 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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2455- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2456
d69fb6a8 2457- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2458 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2459
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2460- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2461 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2462 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2463 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2464 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2465 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2466 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2467 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2468
2469- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2470 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2471 'file' field.
02428754 2472
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2473- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2474 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2475
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2476- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2477 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2478 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2479
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2480- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2481 from Chris Wagner.
2482
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2483- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2484 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2485 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2486
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2487- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2488 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2489 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2490 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2491 was set.
2492
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2493- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2494 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2495
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2496- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2497 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2498 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2499 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2500 active ones.
2501
02428754 2502 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2503
901306d5 2504- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2505 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2506 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2507 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2508 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2509
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2510- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2511 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2512
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2513 Changes since 3.0.4
2514
2515- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2516 scopes are actually global has been added.
2517
2518- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2519 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2520 known to be damaging.
2521
2522- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2523 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2524 balancing).
2525
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2526- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2527 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2528 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2529
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2530- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2531 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2532 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2533
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2534- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2535 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2536 more clear now.
2537
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2538- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2539 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2540 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2541 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2542 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2543 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2544
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2545- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2546 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2547
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2548- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2549 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2550 made possible.
2551
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2552- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2553 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2554 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2555
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2556- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2557 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2558
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2559- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2560 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2561 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2562
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2563- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2564 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2565 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2566 value with the later configured value).
2567
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2568- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2569 have been named and documented.
2570
2571- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2572 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2573 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2574 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2575 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2576 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2577 write new output.
2578
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2579 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2580
2581- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2582 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2583
2584 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2585
2586- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2587 mailing list.
2588
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2589 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2590
45d545f0 2591- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2592 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2593
2594- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2595 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2596
2597- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2598 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2599 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2600 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2601
2602- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2603 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2604 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2605 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2606 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2607 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2608 transition (properly).
2609
2610- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2611
2612 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2613
2614- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2615 STDIN after reading one line.
2616
2617- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2618 descriptor it opened twice.
2619
2620- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2621 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2622 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2623
2624 Changes since 3.0.3
2625
2626- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2627 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2628 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2629
2630- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2631 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2632 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2633
2634- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2635 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2636 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2637 leases to allocate.
2638
2639- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2640 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2641 than the entire block of them.
2642
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2643! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2644 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2645 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2646 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2647 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2648 to a patch from infamous42md.
2649
2650! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2651 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2652 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2653 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2654 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2655 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2656
2657- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2658 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2659 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2660
2661- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2662 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2663
2664- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2665 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2666 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2667 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2668 transitional states.
2669
2670- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2671 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2672 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2673
2674- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2675 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2676 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2677
2678- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2679 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2680
2681- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2682 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2683
2684- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2685 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2686 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2687
2688- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2689 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2690
2691- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2692 repaired.
2693
2694- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2695 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2696 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2697 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2698
2699- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2700 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2701 data.
2702
2703- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2704 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2705 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2706 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2707 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2708
2709- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2710 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2711 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2712 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2713 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2714
2715- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2716 has been repaired.
2717
2718- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2719 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2720 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2721 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2722 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2723
2724- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2725 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2726
45d545f0 2727- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2728 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2729 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2730 move to 3.[01].x.
2731
2732- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2733 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2734
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2735 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2736
2737- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2738 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2739
2740- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2741 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2742 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2743 workaround.
2744
2745 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2746
2747- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2748 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2749
2750 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2751
2752- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2753 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2754 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2755
2756- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2757 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2758 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2759
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2760 Changes since 3.0.2
2761
2762- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2763 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2764 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2765
2766- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2767 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2768 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2769 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2770 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2771
2772- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2773 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2774 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2775
2776- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2777 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2778 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2779
2780- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2781 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2782 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2783 Peter Poeml.
2784
2785- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2786 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2787
2788- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2789 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2790 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2791 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2792 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2793 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2794
2795- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2796 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2797 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2798 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2799
2800- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2801 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2802 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2803 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2804
2805- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2806 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2807
2808- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2809 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2810 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2811
2812- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2813 7 bytes, and failover.
2814
2815- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2816 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2817 at Red Hat.
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2818
2819- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2820 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2821 should work better.
2822
2823- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2824 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2825 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2826
2827- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2828 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2829 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2830
2831 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2832
2833- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2834 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2835
2836 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2837
45d545f0 2838- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2839 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2840 overloading. This was repaired.
2841
2842- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2843 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2844 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2845 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2846 three chunks to fit.
2847
2848- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2849 were repaired.
2850
2851- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2852 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2853 leak).
2854
2855 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2856
2857- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2858 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2859
2860 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2861
2862- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2863
2864 Changes since 3.0.1
2865
2866- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2867 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2868 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2869
2870- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2871 name was not provided by the server.
2872
2873- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2874 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2875
2876- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2877 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2878
2879- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2880 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2881
2882- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2883
2884- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2885
2886- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 2887 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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2888 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2889 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2890 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2891
2892- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2893 the configuration be globally scoped.
2894
2895- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2896 Farkas.
2897
2898- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2899 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2900
2901- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2902 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2903
2904- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2905 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2906
2907- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2908 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2909 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2910 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2911
2912- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2913 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2914 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2915 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2916
2917- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2918 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2919 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2920
2921- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2922
2923- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2924 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2925 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2926
2927- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2928 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2929 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2930 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2931 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2932
2933- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2934 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2935
2936- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2937 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2938
2939- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2940 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2941 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2942 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2943
2944- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2945 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2946
2947- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2948 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2949 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2950
2951- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2952 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2953 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2954 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2955 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2956 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2957
2958- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2959 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2960 Infoblox.
2961
2962- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2963
2964- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2965 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2966 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2967 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2968 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2969 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2970 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2971
2972- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2973 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2974 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2975
2976- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2977 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2978 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2979
2980- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2981
2982 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2983
2984- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2985 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2986 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2987 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2988 systems either.
2989
2990- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2991
2992- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2993 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2994 is false.
2995
2996- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2997 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2998
2999- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3000
3001 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3002
3003! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3004 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3005 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3006 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3007 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3008 both finding and solving the problem.
3009
3010! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3011 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3012 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3013 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3014 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3015 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3016 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3017 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3018 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3019 published version of ISC DHCP.
3020
3021- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3022
3023- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3024
3025 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3026
3027- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3028 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3029 Richard Hirst.
3030
3031- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3032 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3033 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3034
3035- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3036
3037- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3038 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3039 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3040 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3041
3042- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3043 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3044
3045- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3046 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3047
3048- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3049
3050 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3051
3052- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3053 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3054
3055- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3056 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3057 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3058
3059- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3060 by name was fixed.
3061
45d545f0 3062- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3063 longer result in error.
3064
3065- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3066
3067- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3068 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3069 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3070
3071- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3072 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3073
3074- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3075 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3076 Blapp.
3077
3078- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3079 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3080 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3081 Martin Blapp.
3082
3083- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3084 expiry times in failover configurations.
3085
3086- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3087 Steve G.
3088
3089- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3090 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3091
3092- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3093 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3094 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3095 now "unknown-144".
3096
3097- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3098 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3099
3100 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3101
3102- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3103
3104- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3105 not be bash.
3106
3107- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3108
3109- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3110 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3111 that errored before will now work properly.
3112
3113- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3114 names was repaired.
3115
3116- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3117 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3118 configuration file.
3119
3120- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3121 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3122
3123- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3124 error rather than a null dereference.
3125
3126 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3127
3128- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3129
3130- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3131
3132- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3133 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3134
3135- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3136
3137- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3138
3139- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3140 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3141 self-corrupting lease databases.
3142
3143- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3144
3145- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3146 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3147
3148- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3149
3150- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3151
3152- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3153 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3154 Ling Gou.
3155
3156- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3157 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3158
3159- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3160 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3161 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3162
3163- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3164 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3165
3166 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3167
3168- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3169 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3170
3171- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3172
3173- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3174 a memory leak.
3175
3176- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3177 script.
3178
3179- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3180
3181- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3182
3183- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3184
3185- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3186
3187- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3188
3189- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3190
3191- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3192
3193- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3194
3195- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3196
3197- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3198
3199- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3200
3201- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3202
3203 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3204
3205- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3206 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3207 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3208
3209 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3210
3211- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3212 to be renewed.
3213
3214- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3215 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3216
3217- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3218 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3219
3220- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3221 that two permit lists matched.
3222
3223- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3224 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3225
3226- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3227
3228- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3229 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3230
3231- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3232
3233- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3234
3235- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3236 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3237 going to update its A record.
3238
3239- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3240 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3241 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3242 DNS server.
3243
3244- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3245
3246- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3247
3248- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3249 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3250 NetBSD project).
3251
3252- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3253 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3254
3255- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3256 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3257
3258- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3259
3260- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3261
3262- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3263 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3264 failover protocol standard.
3265
3266- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3267 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3268 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3269
3270- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3271 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3272 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3273 do so.
3274
3275- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3276
3277 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3278
3279- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3280
3281- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3282 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3283
3284- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3285 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3286
3287- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3288 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3289 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3290
3291- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3292 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3293 network, merge the two pools.
3294
3295- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3296 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3297 fix this bug.
3298
3299 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3300
3301- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3302 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3303
3304- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3305 the same case.
3306
3307- Additional documentation.
3308
3309- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3310 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3311
3312 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3313
3314- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3315- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3316
adbef119 3317 Changes since 3.0.1rc2
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3318
3319- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3320 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3321 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3322 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3323 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3324
adbef119 3325 Changes since 3.0.1rc1
98311e4b
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3326
3327- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3328 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3329 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3330 wasn't the one that removed it.
3331
3332- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3333 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3334 were not configured.
3335
3336- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3337
3338- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3339 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3340 routing information.
3341
3342- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3343 request being sent.
3344
3345- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3346 done.
3347
3348- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3349 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3350 were pending.
3351
3352- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3353 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3354 problems with failover.
3355
3356- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3357 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3358 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3359
adbef119 3360 Changes since 3.0
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3361
3362- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3363 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3364
3365- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3366 no object is open, it dumps core.
3367
3368- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3369
3370- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3371
3372- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3373
3374- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3375 a host object attribute with a null value.
3376
3377 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3378
3379- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3380
3381- Fix an obscure core dump.
3382
3383- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3384 when crucial information is left out.
3385
3386- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3387
3388- Documentation updates.
3389
3390 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3391
3392- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3393
3394- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3395 structure wasn't zeroed.
3396
3397- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3398 incorrectly.
3399
3400- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3401 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3402 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3403 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3404 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3405 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3406 restarted.
3407
3408 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3409
3410- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3411 in failover-enabled pools.
3412
3413- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3414 declarations).
3415
3416- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3417 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3418
3419- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3420 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3421
3422- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3423
3424- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3425 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3426
3427- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3428
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3429 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
3430
3431- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3432
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3433 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3434
3435- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3436
3437- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3438
3439- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3440
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3441 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3442
3443- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3444 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3445 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3446
3447- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3448 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3449 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3450 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3451 string.
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3452
3453- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3454
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3455 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3456
3457- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3458 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3459
3460- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3461 malformed packets.
3462
3463- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3464
3465- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3466 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3467 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3468
3469- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3470
3471- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3472
3473- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3474
3475- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3476 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3477
3478- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3479 tcp connections from being played back.
3480
3481- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3482 on exit.
3483
3484- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3485
3486- Add some configurability to the build system.
3487
3488- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3489
3490- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3491 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3492 hadn't been noticed until now.
3493
3494 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3495
3496- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3497 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3498
3499- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3500 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3501 conformant, but also didn't work).
3502
3503- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3504 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3505
3506- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3507 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3508
3509- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3510 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3511
3512- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3513 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3514
3515- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3516 doing failover.
3517
3518- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3519 running on alpha processors.
3520
3521- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3522 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3523
3524- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3525
3526- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3527
3528- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3529 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3530
3531- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3532
3533- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3534 actually named (key names are domain names).
3535
3536- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3537
3538- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3539 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3540
3541- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3542 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3543
3544- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3545 statements.
3546
3547- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3548 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3549
3550- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3551 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3552 operating.
3553
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3554 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3555
3556- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3557 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3558 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3559 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3560
3561- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3562 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3563
3564- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3565
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3566 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3567
3568- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3569 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3570
3571- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3572 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3573 to the chain.
3574
3575- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3576
3577- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3578
3579- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3580
98311e4b 3581- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3582 attribute values in omshell.
3583
98311e4b 3584- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3585
3586- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3587
3588 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3589
3590- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3591 DHCPDECLINE.
3592
3593- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3594
3595- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3596 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3597 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3598
3599- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3600
3601- Documentation fixes.
3602
3603- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3604 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3605
3606- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3607 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3608
3609- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3610
3611- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3612
3613- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3614 case-insensitive.
3615
3616- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3617
98311e4b 3618- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3619 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3620 consistently.
3621
3622- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3623 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3624
3625- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3626
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3627 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3628
3629- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3630 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3631 result of duplicate leases.
3632
3633- Document OMAPI server objects.
3634
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3635 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3636
3637- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3638 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3639
3640- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3641 core dumps.
3642
3643- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3644 Friedrich.
3645
3646- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3647
3648 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3649
3650- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3651 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3652 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3653 billing class code.
3654
3655- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3656 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3657
3658- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3659 trace file.
3660
79ea3de8 3661 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 3662
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3663- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3664 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3665 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3666 e.g., Digital Unix.
3667
3668- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3669 when no error had occurred.
3670
3671- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3672 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3673 non-communicating state.
3674
3675- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3676
3677- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3678 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3679 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3680
3681- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3682 when the client lease expired.
3683
3684- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3685 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3686 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3687 in testing.
3688
3689- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3690 the command line, it would fail.
3691
3692- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3693 user impact).
3694
3695- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3696
3697- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3698 they're executable.
3699
3700 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3701
3702- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3703 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3704 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3705 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3706
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3707- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3708 Transmeta.
3709
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3710- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3711 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3712 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3713 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3714
3715- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3716 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3717
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3718 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3719
3720- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3721 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3722
3723- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3724
3725- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3726
3727- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3728
3729- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3730
3731- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3732
3733- Update some parts of the README file.
3734
3735- Support GCC on SCO.
3736
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3738
3739- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3740 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3741
3742- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3743 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3744 unbill the old class.
3745
3746- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3747 process the state transition immediately.
3748
3749- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3750 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3751
3752- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3753
3754- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3755
3756- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3757
3758- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3759
3760- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3761 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3762 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3763
3764- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3765 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3766
3767- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3768 lease file.
3769
3770- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3771
3772- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3775
3776- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3777 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3778
3779- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3780
adbef119 3781 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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3782
3783- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3784
adbef119 3785 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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3786
3787- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3788
3789- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3790 pl19.
3791
3792- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3793 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3794 past the regression test.
3795
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3797
3798- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3799 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3800
3801- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3802 DHCPREQUEST.
3803
3804- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3805
3806- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3807
3808- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3809
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3812- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3813 (Damien Neil)
3814
3815- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3816 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3817
3818- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3819 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3820 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3821
3822- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3823 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3824 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3825 message.
3826
3827- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3828 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3829 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3830
98311e4b 3831- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3832 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3833 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3834 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3835 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3836 this way will work.
3837
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3838- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3839
3840- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3841 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3842 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3843 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3844
3845 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3846
3847 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3848
3849- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3850 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3851 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3852
3853- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3854 Hermann Lauer.
3855
3856- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3857 messages.
3858
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3859- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3860 it contained quoted strings.
3861
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3862 ** there was no pl17 **
3863
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3866- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3867 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3868 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3869 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3870 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3871 tracking down memory leaks.
3872
3873- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3874 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3875 Solaris.
3876
3877- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3878 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3879 corruption and core dumps.
3880
3881- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3882 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3883
3884- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3885
3886- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3887 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3888
3889- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3890 name and version to standard output.
3891
3892- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3893
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3894- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3895 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3896
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3897- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3898
3899- Lots of documentation updates.
3900
3901- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3902 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3903
3904- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3905
3906- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3907 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3908
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3910
3911- Some documentation tweaks.
3912
3913- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3914
3915- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3916
3917- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3918 agent options into them.
3919
3920- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3921
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3922- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3923 options.
3924
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3926
3927- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3928 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3929 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3930 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3931 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3932
3933- Fix up documentation.
3934
3935- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3936 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3937
3938- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3939
3940- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3941
3942- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3943 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3944 practical use otherwise.
3945
3946- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3947 for debugging.
3948
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3950
3951- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3952 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3953 dump on some systems.
3954
3955- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3956 option.
3957
3958- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3959 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3960
3961- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3962 that were not printing enough information.
3963
3964- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3965 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3966
3967- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3968 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3969 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3970 were answering.
3971
3972- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3973 the transition.
9a111ee8 3974
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3977
3978- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3979
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3980 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3981
3982- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3983 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3984 representation from working correctly.
3985
3986- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3987 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3988 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3989 could spin.
3990
3991- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3992 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3993
3994- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3995 interface name on the command line.
3996
3997- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3998 client state.
3999
4000- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4001 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4002 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4003 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4004 added by Ted Lemon.
4005
4006- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4007 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4008
4009- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4010 end option.
4011
4012- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4013 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4014 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4015
4016- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4017 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4018 face of a null hardware address on input.
4019
4020- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4021 specified unqualified.
4022
4023- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4024 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4025
4026- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4027 RFC.
4028
4029- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4030
4031- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4032
4033- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4034 it works.
4035
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4036 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4037
4038- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4039 to CVS.
4040
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4041 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4042
4043- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4044
4045- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4046 in patchlevel 9.
4047
4048- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4049 options at renewal time.
4050
4051- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4052 configuration language.
4053
4054- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4055
4056- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4057 done when no client hostname was received.
4058
4059- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4060
4061- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4062 the DHCP option space.
4063
4064- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4065
4066- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4067 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4068
4069- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4070 silently dropped.
4071
4072- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4073 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4074
4075- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4076 will be correctly updated.
4077
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4078 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4079
4080- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4081 bounds-checking.
4082
4083 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4084
4085- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4086
3922772a 4087 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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4089- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4090 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4091 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4092
4093- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4094 option.
4095
4096- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4097 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4098 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4099 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4100 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4101 meaningfully.
4102
4103- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4104 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4105 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4106
4107- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4108 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4109 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4110 this one down!
4111
4112- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4113 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4114 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4115 down and fixing this problem.
4116
4117 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4118
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4119- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4120 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4121
4122- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4123 environment.
4124
4125- Fix suffix operator.
4126
4127- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4128
4129- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4130 connection code.
4131
4132- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4133
4134- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4135
4136- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4137 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4138
4139- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4140
4141- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4142
4143- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4144 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4145
4146- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4147 spawn with.
4148
4149- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4150 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4151
4152- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4153 for OMAPI.
4154
4155- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4156 can install in host declarations.
4157
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4158 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4159
4160- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4161 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4162 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4163 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4164 comments)!
4165
4166- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4167
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4168- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4169 request for help on this with patches!
4170
4171- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4172 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4173 lost, they never reconnect.
4174
4175- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4176 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4177
4178- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4179 dump.
4180
4181- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4182 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4183 catching this one.
4184
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4185 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4186
4187- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4188 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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4189 lease renewal time.
4190
4191- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4192 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4193 declared without a key.
4194
4195- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4196
4197- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4198 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4199
4200- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4201 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4202 determine the maximum size of the response.
4203
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4204 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4205
359b023e
TL
4206- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4207 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4208
592d8153
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4209- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4210 RENEWING client.
4211
4212- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4213
4214- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4215 using memcmp().
4216
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4217 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4218
4219- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4220 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4221 pointing this out.
4222
4223- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4224 exit.
4225
4226- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4227
4228- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4229 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.