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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
d618ba48 2 Version 4.4.0-pre-alpha
33dca28a 3 29 March 2016
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
cb0d7e7c 21This release also adds support for the standard DDNS as described in the
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22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
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57- Insert the raw data from a fully encapsualted option into the option cache.
58 This allows "exists" to check for the option if any sub options exist. It
59 also adds the raw data to the environment variables supplied to the client
60 script.
61 [ISC-Bugs #39863]
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63- Pass configure arguments which begin with an upper case letter, e.g.
64 CFLAGS, to the embedded bind configure, so it is no longer required
65 to use environment variables to get the same effect.
66 [ISC-Bugs #35143]
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68- Added --enable-kqueue, --enable-epoll, --enable-devpoll and a more
69 general --with-bind-extra-config to pass extra options to the
70 embedded bind configure. Note we had mixed experiences with this
54ee18cf 71 so it is at the user risk, i.e., they are NOT SUPPORTED yet.
f285576d 72 [ISC-Bugs #20890]
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74- Changed the way the embedded bind Makefile is updated by configure.
75 The only user visible side effect is that --with-libbind now requires
76 either "no" or an (absolute) path, i.e. "yes" is no longer valid.
77 [ISC-Bugs #43227]
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79- Added the support for git repositories in the util/bind.sh script.
80 When you build ISC DHCP from a git repo, i.e., without a "bind"
81 directory populated as in the release distribution file, you may now
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82 create the bind directory, change to it and clone the private
83 (repo.isc.org/proj/git/prod/bind9.git) or the public
290a7613 84 (https://source.isc.org/git/bind9.git) git repository into
d163c8f7 85 bind/bind9 and then invoke the util/bind.sh script as usual.
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86 Note this option is incompatible with "make dist" (and make "distcheck")
87 because no bind/bind.tar.gz nor bind/version.tmp files are available.
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88 [ISC-Bugs #43236]
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90- Use the embedded bind libraries where they are built (vs where they
91 are installed).
92 [ISC-Bugs #39319]
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94- Use last version (9.11) of plain embedded bind libraries in place of
95 older (9.9) version of export bind libraries.
96 [ISC-Bugs #43215]
97
5a2e8c37 98- Using "make distcheck" now works with external bind libraries (aka
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99 configure --with-libbind).
100 [ISC-Bugs #43285]
101
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102- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
103 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
104 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
105 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
106 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
107 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
108 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
109 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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111- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
112 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
113 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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114 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
115 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
116 arguments.
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117 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
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119- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
120 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
121 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
122 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
123 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
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125- IPv6 operation now supports an EUI-64 based address allocation which will
126 calculate addresses for clients with EUI-64 DUIDs based on those DUIDs when
127 enabled by setting use-eui-64 true. The parameter may defined down to the
128 pool scope. Note this feature must be compiled in by defining EUI_64 in
129 includes/site.h. This flag is undefined by default.
130 [ISC-Bugs #43927]
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132- Added new compile time option --with-srv-conf-file which specifies a
133 default location of the server configuration file.
134 [ISC-Bugs #44765]
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136- Added --dad-wait-time parameter to dhclient. It specifies the maximum time,
137 in seconds, that the client process should wait for the duplicate address
138 detection to complete before initiating DHCP requests. This value is
139 propagated to the dhclient script and the script is responsible for waiting
140 the specified amount of time or until DAD has completed. If the script does
141 not support it, specifying this parameter has no effect. The default value
142 is 0 which specifies that the script should not wait for DAD. With this
143 change the following scripts have been modified to support the new parameter:
144 freebsd, linux, macos, netbsd, openbsd.
145 [ISC-Bugs #36169]
146
251bb4b9 147- Modified DDNS support initialization such that DNS related ports will only be
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148 opened by the server (dhcpd) at startup if ddns-update-style is not "none";
149 by dhclient only if and when the it first attempts an update; and never by
150 dhcrelay. Prior to this all three always did the initialization at startup
151 which causes them to always open on and listen for traffic on two random
ff343a30 152 ports. Thanks to Rodney Beede for reporting the issue.
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153 [ISC-Bugs #45290]
154 [ISC-Bugs #33377]
155
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156- Added error logging to two memory allocation failure checks. Thanks to Bill
157 Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) for reporting the issue.
158 [ISC-Bugs #41185]
159
251bb4b9 160- Corrected a dhclient -6 issue that caused the client to crash with an
161 "Impossible condition" error after de-preferencing its only IA binding.
162 The crash occurred when server configuration changes rendered the existing
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163 binding out-of-range and no other leases were available to offer. Thanks
164 to Pierre Clerissi for bringing this issue to our attention.
251bb4b9 165 [ISC-Bugs #44373]
166
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167- Client now calls the script with reason set to FAIL when run with -1
168 (one try) and there are no server responses. Thanks for a patch by Martin
169 Pitt which got to us via Andrew Pollock.
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170 [ISC-bugs #18183]
171
6573afff 172- Linux script updated. The script is now based on Debian version. It uses
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173 ip tool from iproute2 package and ifconfig is no longer used. This also
174 addresses an issue of calling arping with inappropriate parameter.
6573afff 175 [ISC-bugs #19430]
fbe81d8e 176 [ISC-bugs #18111]
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d618ba48 178 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
0b0a1399 179
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180- Tidy up several small tickets.
181 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
182 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
183 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
184 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
185 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
186 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
187 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
188 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
189 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
190 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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192- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
193 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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195- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
196 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
197 Popelka at Red Hat.
198 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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200- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
201 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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203- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
204 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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206- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
207 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
208 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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210- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
211 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
212 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
213 option in the list.
214 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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216- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
217 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
218 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
219 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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221- Remove unused RCSID tags.
222 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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224- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
225 for MRT limit it to MRD.
226 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
227 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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229- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
230 when a server, relay or client are killed.
231 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
232 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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234- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
235 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
236 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
237 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
238 given the "-1" argument.
239 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
240 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
241 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
242 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
243 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
244 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
245 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
246 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
247 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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249- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
250 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
251 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
252 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
253 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
254 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
255 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
256 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
257 to syslog.
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259- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
260 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
261 number in syslog messages.
262 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
263 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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265- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
266 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
267 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
268 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
269 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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271- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
272 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
273 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
274 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
275 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
276 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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278- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
279 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
280 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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282- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
283 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
284 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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286- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
287 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
288 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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290- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
291 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
292 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
293 in a pool are used.
294 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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296- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
297 on an error condition.
298 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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300- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
301 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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303- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
304 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
305 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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307- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
308 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
309 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
310 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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312- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
313 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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315- Tidy up receive packet processing.
316 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
317 a possible patch.
318 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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320- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
321 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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323- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
324 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
325 and hmac-sha512
326 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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328- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
329 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 330 patch.
d618ba48 331 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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333- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
334 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
335 provided the patch.
336 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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338- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
339 after the configuration file has been processed.
340 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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342- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
343 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
344 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
345 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
346 compilers that was introduced by #36712
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348- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
349 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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351- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
352 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
353 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
354 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
355 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
356 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
357 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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359- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
360 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
361 bug report and patch.
362 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
363 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
364 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
365 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
366 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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368- Addressed checksum issues:
369 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
370 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
371 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
372 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
373 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
374 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
375 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
376 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
377 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
378 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
379 than being dropped.
380 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
381 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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383- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
384 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
385 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
386 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
387 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
388 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
389 inbound request to a known subnet.
390 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
391 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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393- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
394 BOOTP request handling.
395 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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397- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
398 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
399 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
400 the patch upon which the fix is based.
401 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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403- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
404 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
405 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
406 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
407 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
408 modified to send requests more often.
409 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
410 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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412- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
413 name from the following in order of preference:
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415 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
416 2. Host name option if provided by the client
417 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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419 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
420 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
421 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
422 and no other value is available.
423 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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425- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
426 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
427 corrected.
428 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
429 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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431- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
432 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
433 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
434 components.
435 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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437- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
438 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
439 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
440 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
441 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
442 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
443 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
444 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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446- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
447 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
448 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
449 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
450 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
451 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
452 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
453 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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455- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
456 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
457 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
458 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
459 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
460 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
461 bug and supplying a patch.
462 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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464- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
465 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
466 leae expiration code.
467 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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469- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
470 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
471 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
472 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
473 files.
474 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
475 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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477- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
478 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
479 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
480 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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482- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
483 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
484 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
485 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
486 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
487 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
488 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
489 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
490 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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492- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
493 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
494 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
495 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
496 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
497 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
498 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
499 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
500 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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502- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
503 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
504 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
505 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
506 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
507 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
508 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
509 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
510 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
511 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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513- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
514 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
515 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
516 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
517 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
518 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
519 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
520 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
521
522- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
523 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
524 bug report and patch.
525 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
526
527- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
528 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
529 code consistent across versions.
530 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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532- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
533 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
534 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
535 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
536 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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538 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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541 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
542 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
543 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
544 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
545 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
546 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
547 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
548 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
549 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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551 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 552 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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554- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
555 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
556 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
557 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 558 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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560- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
561 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
562 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
563 a proper length for it.
564 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
565
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567 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
568 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
569 reasonable to remove it.
570 [ISC-Buts #39019]
571
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cacce092 573 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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574 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
575 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
576
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577- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
578 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
579 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
580 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
581 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
582
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584 table 3.
585 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
586
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587- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
588 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
589 the issue and suggesting the patch.
590 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
591
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592- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
593 of as a token.
594 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
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596- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
597 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
598 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
599 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
600 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
601 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
602 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
603
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605 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
606 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
607 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
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609- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
610 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
611 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
612
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615 for the bug report.
cca6a648 616 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
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618- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
619 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
620 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
621 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
622 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 623 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 624 reporting the issue.
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628 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
629 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
630 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
631 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
632 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
633 itself.
634 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
635
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636- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
637 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
638 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
639 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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641- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
642 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
643 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
644 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
645
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647 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
648 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
649 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
650 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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652- Fixed a server crash that could occur when the server attempts to remove
653 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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654 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
655 issue.
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657
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659 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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661 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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663 contributions (alphabetically):
664 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 665 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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666 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
667 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 668 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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669 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
670 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
671 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
672 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
673 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
674 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
675 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
676 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
677 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
678 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
679 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
680 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
681 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
682 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
683
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686 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 687 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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689- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
690 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
691 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
692 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
693 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
694
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4e1bf548 696 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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697 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
698 the issue.
4e1bf548 699 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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701- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
702 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
703 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
704 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
705 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
706 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
707 tests.
708 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
709 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
710 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
711 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
712 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
713 use the command "make -k check".
714 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
715
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717 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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720 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
721 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
722 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
723 keep the previous behavior.
724 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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726- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
727 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
728 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
729 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
730 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
731 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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733- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
734 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
735 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
736 address them.
737 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
738 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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740- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
741 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
742 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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744- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
745 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
746 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
747 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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749- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
750 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
751 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
752 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
753 not show a value.
754 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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756- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
757 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
758 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
759 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
760 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
761 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
762 he provided.
763 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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765- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
766 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
767 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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769- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
770 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
771 the issue and supplying the patches.
772 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
773 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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775- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
776 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
777 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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779- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
780 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
781 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
782 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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785 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
786 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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789 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
790 patch.
791 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
792 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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794- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
795 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
796 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
797 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
798 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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800- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
801 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
802 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
803 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
804 the software to fail.
805 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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807- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
808 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
809 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
810 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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812- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
813 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
814 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
815 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
816 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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818- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
819 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
820 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
821 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
822 update as an "invalid state transition".
823 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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826 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
827 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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829- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
830 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
831 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
832 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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834- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
835 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
836 modified to work as infinite.
837 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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839- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
840 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
841 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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843- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
844 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
845 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
846 option as per RFC 6939.
847 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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849- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
850 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
851 for cross compilation.
852 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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854- Add more option definitions.
855 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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857- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
858 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
859 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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861- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
862 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
863 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
864 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
865 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
866 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
867 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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870 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
871 feature.
872 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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874- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
875 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
876 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
877 relay.
878 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
879 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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881- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
882 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
883 Section 22.4.
884 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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886- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
887 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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889- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
890 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
891 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
892 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
893 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
894 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
895 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
896 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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898- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
899 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
900 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
901 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
86bda88b 902 submitting a patch
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903 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
904 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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906- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
907 decoding a packet.
908 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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910- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
911 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
912 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
913 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
914 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
915 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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918 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
919 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
920 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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922- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
923 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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925- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
926 of circuit id length.
927 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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930 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
931 returned in responses.
932 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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935 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
936 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
937 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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940 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
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942 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
943 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
944 for reporting the issue.
d618ba48 945 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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948 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
949 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
950 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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952- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
953 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
954 a cut and paste error.
955 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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958 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
959 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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962 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
963 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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965 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
966 with us to produce a viable solution.
d618ba48 967 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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970 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
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972 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
973 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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2b5c8201 976 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
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979 patch.
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983 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
984 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
985 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
986 verify the problem and fix.
987 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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990 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
991 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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995 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
996 it runs out.
997 [ISC-Bugs #42452]
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999- Add DHCPv4-mode, dhcrelay command line options, "-iu" and "-id", that
1000 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
1001 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
1002 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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1006 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
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1009 to this change, the logic was techinically incorrect but other factors
1010 ensured the outcome itself was correct. This change was made primarily
1011 for code clarity. Thanks to Ganesh Pinjala for bringing the issue to our
1012 attention.
1013 [ISC-Bugs #42834]
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1015- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
1016 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
1017 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
1018 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
1019
1020- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
1021 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
1022 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
1023 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
1024 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
1025
86bda88b 1026- The configure script for use with libtool now catches a failure to
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1027 execute autoreconf. Prior to this, autoreconf failures would go undetected
1028 causing the legacy configure script to loop when run with --enable-libtool.
1029 [ISC-Bugs #43546]
1030
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1031- When replying to a DHCPINFORM, the server will now include options specified
1032 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
1033 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
1034 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
1035 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
1036 [ISC-Bugs #45051]
1037
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1039 "Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
1040 [ISC-Bugs #32744]
1041
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1042- The new lmdb (Lightning Memory DataBase) bind9 configure option is
1043 now disabled by default to avoid the presence of this library to be
1044 detected which can lead to a link failure.
1045 [ISC-Bugs #45069]
1046
86bda88b 1047- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
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1049 the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
1050 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at Suse, and Wei
1051 Kong at Novell, who all submitted patches.
1052 [ISC-Bugs #28761]
1053 [ISC-Bugs #31992]
1054 [ISC-Bugs #25428]
1055 [ISC-Bugs #31940]
01bfe9c5 1056 [ISC-Bugs #32935]
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1058- Fixed a bug in OMAPI that causes omshell to crash when a name-value
1059 pair with a zero length value is shipped in an object. Thanks to
1060 Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and
1061 supplying the patch.
1062 [ISC-Bugs #29108]
1063
1064- On 64-bit platforms, dhclient now generates the correct value for the
1065 script environment variable, "expiry", the lease expiry value exceeds
1066 0x7FFFFFFF. Prior to this such values would produce negative values
1067 for expiry in the script environment.
1068 [ISC-Bugs #43326]
1069
1070- Common timer logic was modified to cap the maximum timeout values at
1071 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. Values larger than that were causing fatal timer out of
1072 range errors on 64-bit platforms. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
1073 reporting the issue.
1074 [ISC-Bugs #28038]
1075
1076- DHCP6 FQDN option unpacking code now correctly handles values that contain
1077 spaces, special, or non-printable characters. Prior to this the buffer
1078 size needed was underestitmate causing a conversion error message to
1079 be logged and DNS updates to be skipped. Thanks to Fernando Soto at
1080 BlueCat Networks for bringing the matter to our attention.
1081 [ISC-Bugs #43592]
1082
1083- When running in -6 mode, dhclient now enforces the require option statement
1084 and will discard offered leases that do not contain all the required
1085 options specified in the client configuration. Prior to this the client
1086 would still consider such leases. This may be disabled at compile time
1087 (see ENFORCE_DHCPV6_CLIENT_REQUIRE in includes/site.h). Thanks to
1088 Mritunjaykumar Dubey at Nokia for reporting the issue.
1089 [ISC-Bugs #41473]
1090
1091- Altered DHCPv4 lease time calculation to avoid roll over errors on 64-bit
1092 OS systems when using -1 or large values for default-lease-time. Rollover
1093 values will be replaced with 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. This alleviates unintentionally
1094 short expiration times being handed out when infinite lease times (-1) in
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1096 the issue to our attention.
9b7d458d 1097 [ISC-Bugs #41976]
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1100 when attempting to match it to a prefix pool. This ensures the server
1101 responds properly when pool configurations change such that once valid,
1102 "in-pool" delegations are now treated as being invalid. During lease
1103 file loading at startup, the server will discard any PD leases that
1104 are deemed "out-of-pool" either by address or mis-matched prefix length.
1105 Clients seeking to renew or rebind such leases will get a response of
1106 No Binding in the case of the former, and the prefix delegation with
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1108 at TDS Telecom for reporting this issue.
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1110
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1112 one pool when run with the command line option for test mode, -T. Prior to
1113 this the check was performed too far down stream to be detected in test mode.
1114 [ISC-Bugs #29892]
1115
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1117 the received packets from 'info' to 'debug' to avoid logging excessive
1118 number of false positives when UDP checksum offloading is enabled.
1119 [ISC-bugs #41757]
1120
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1123- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
1124 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
1125 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
1126 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
1127 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
1128 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 1129 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 1130 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 1131 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 1132 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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1134- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
1135 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
1136 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
1137
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1138- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
1139 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
1140 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
1141 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1142 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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1144- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1145 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1146 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1147 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1148 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1149 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1150
a7341359 1151- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 1152 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 1153
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1154- Add support for using classes with v6.
1155 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
1156
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1157- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
1158 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1159 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1160 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1161 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1162 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1163 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1164 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1166- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1167 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1168 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1169 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1170 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1171 not recommended.
64fb661c 1172 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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1174- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1175 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1176 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1177 This is "Server starting service.".
1178 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1179 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1180 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1181 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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1183- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
1184 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1185 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1186 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1187 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1188 man page for a description.
1189 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1190
e54ff84f 1191- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1192 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1193 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1194 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1195 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1196 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1197 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1198
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1199- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1200 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1201 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1202 one instance of their respective address types.
1203 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
4d079f0e 1204
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1205- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1206 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1207 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1208 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1209 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1210 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1211 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1213- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1214 and take host declarations into account.
1215 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1216 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1217
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1218- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1219 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1220 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1221 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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1223- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1224 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1225 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1226
01a44a77 1227 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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1229- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1230 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1231
01a44a77 1232- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1233
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1234- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1235 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1236
01a44a77 1237- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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1239- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1240 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1241 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1242 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1243 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1244 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1245
01a44a77 1246- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1247
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1248- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1249 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1250
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1251- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1252 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1253 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1254 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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1256- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1257 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1258 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1259 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1260 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1261 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1262 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1263 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1264 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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1266- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1267 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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1270 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1271 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1272 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1273
01a44a77 1274- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1275
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1276- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1277 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1278 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1279 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1280 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1281
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1282- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1283 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1284 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1285 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1286 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1287
01a44a77 1288- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1289
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1290- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1291 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1292
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1293- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1294 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1295 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1296 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1297 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1298 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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1300- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1301 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1302
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1303 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1304 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1305
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1306 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1307 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1308
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1309 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1310 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1311
01a44a77 1312- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1313
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1314- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1315 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1316 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1317 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1318 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1319 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
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1321- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1322 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1323 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1324 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1325 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1326 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1327
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1328- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1329 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1330 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1331
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1332- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1333 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1334 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1335 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1336
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1337- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1338 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1339
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1340- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1341 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1342 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1343
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1344- Minor code fixes
1345 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1346 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1347 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1348 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1349 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1350 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1351 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1352 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1353 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1354 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1355 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1356 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1357
01a44a77 1358- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1359
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1360- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1361 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1362
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1363- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1364 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1365
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1366- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1367 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1368
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1369- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1370 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1371 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1372
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1373- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1374 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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1376- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1377 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1378 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1379
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1380- Fixes to lease input and output.
1381 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1382 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1383 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1384 characters.
1385 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1386 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1387
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1388- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1389 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1390 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1391 at Red Hat.
1392 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1393 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1394 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1395 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1396
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1397- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1398 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1399 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1400 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1401
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1403 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1404 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1405 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1407- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1408 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1409 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1410
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1411- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1412 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1413 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1414 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1415 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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1417- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1418 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1419 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1420 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1421 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1422
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1423! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1424 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1425 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1426 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1427 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1428 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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1430- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1431 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1432 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1433
adb95d23 1434- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1435 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1436 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1437
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1438- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1439 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1440 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1441
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1442- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1443 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1444 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1445 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1446 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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1448- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1449 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1450 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1451 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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1453! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1454 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1455 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1456 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1457 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1458 and reset its timeout value.
1459 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1461- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1462 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1463 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1464 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1466 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
1467 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1468 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
25f664a6 1469
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1470- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1471 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1472 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1473 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
d424157d 1474
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1475- Some fixes for LDAP
1476 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1477 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1478 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 1479
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1480- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1481 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1482
1483! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1484 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1485 interfaces with the OS.
1486 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1487 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1488
1489- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1490 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1491
1492- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1493 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1494 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1495 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1496 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1497 in v6 mode at configure time.
1498 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1500- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1501 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1502 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1503 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1505- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1506 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1507 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1508 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1509 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1510
1511- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1512 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1513 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1514 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1515 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1517- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1518 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1519 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1520 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1521 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1522
1523- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1524 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1525 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1526
1527- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1528 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1529 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1530 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1531 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1532
1533- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1534 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1535 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1536
1537- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1538 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1539 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1540
1541- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1542 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1543 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1544 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1545 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1546 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1547
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1548- Documentation fixes
1549 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1550 responses to the all-ones address.
1551 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1552 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1553
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1554- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1555 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1556 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1557 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1558
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1559- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1560 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1561
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1562- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1563 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1564 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1565
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1566- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1567 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1568 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1569 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1570 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1571 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1572 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1573 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1574 enable this except for testing purposes.
1575 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1576 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1577
c616de4f 1578- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1579 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1580
1581- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1582
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1583- Client Script fixes
1584 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1585 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1586 the domain search address is link local.
1587 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1588 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1589 being changed.
1590
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1591- Documentation cleanup
1592 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1593
9a111ee8 1594- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1595 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1596
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1597- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1598 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1599 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1600 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1601
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1602- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1603 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1604 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1605
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1606- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1607 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1608
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1609- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1610 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1611 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1612 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1613 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1614 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1615
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1616- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1617 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1618 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1619 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1620 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1621 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1622 in site.h then server will be terminated
1623 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1624
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1625! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1626 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1627 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1628 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1629 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1630 CVE-2011-2748
1631 CVE-2011-2749
1632
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1633- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1634 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1635 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1636 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1637
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1638- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1639 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1640
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1641- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1642 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1643
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1644- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1645 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1646
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1647! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1648 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1649 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1650 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1651 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1652 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1653
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1654! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1655 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1656 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1657 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1658 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1659 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1660 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1661 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1662 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1663 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1664 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1665 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1666
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1667- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1668 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1669 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1670 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1671
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1672- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1673 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1674 from the DNS client code.
1675 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1676
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1677- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1678 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1679
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1680- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1681 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1682 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1683 some issues we found in the socket code.
1684 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1685
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1686- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1687 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1688 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1689 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1690
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1691- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1692 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1693
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1694- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1695 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1696 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1697 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1698 weren't removed from the DNS.
1699 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1700
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1701- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1702 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1703 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1704 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1705
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1706- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1707 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1708 dynamic bootp clients.
1709 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1710
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1711- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1712 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1713 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1714 handing it out.
1715 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1716 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1717 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1718 for different IAs.
1719 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1720 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1721
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1722- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1723 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1724 an int as a boolean).
1725 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1726
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1727- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1728 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1729 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1730 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1731 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1732 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1733 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1734 may be removed in the future.
1735 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1736 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1737
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1738- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1739 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1740 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1741 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1742
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1743- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1744 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1745 report and the first version of the patch.
1746 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1747
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1748- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1749 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1750 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1751 for reporting this issue.
1752 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1753
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1754- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1755 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1756 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1757 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1758 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1759 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1760 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1761 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1762 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1763 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1764
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1765! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1766 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1767 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1768 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1769 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1770 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1771 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1772 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1773 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1774 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1775 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1776 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1777
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1778! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1779 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1780 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1781 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1782 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1783 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1784
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1785! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1786 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1787 this issue.
1788 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1789 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1790
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1791- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1792 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1793 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1794 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1795 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1796 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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1798! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1799 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1800 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1801 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1802 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1803 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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1805- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1806 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1807
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1808- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1809 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1810 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1811 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1812 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1813 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1814
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1815- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1816 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1817 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1818 freed in other cases.
1819 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1820
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1821- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1822 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1823 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1824 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1825 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1826 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1827 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1828 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1829
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1830- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1831 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1832 and patches.
1833 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1834
9a111ee8 1835- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1836 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1837
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1838- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1839 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1840 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1841
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1842- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1843 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1844 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1845 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1846 variables.
1847 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1848
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1849- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1850 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1851 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1852 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1853 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1854 enabling it.
1855 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1856
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1857- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1858 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1859
adb95d23 1860- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1861 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1862 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1863 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1864 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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1866- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1867 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1868 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1869 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1870 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1871
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1872- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1873 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1874
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1875- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1876 and comment out a currently unused test.
1877 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1878
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1879- Address static analysis warnings.
1880 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1881
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1882- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1883 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1884
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1885- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1886 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1887
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1888- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1889 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1890
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1891- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1892 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1893 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1894
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1895- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1896 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1897 for the patch.
1898 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1899
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1900- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1901 objects.
1902 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1903
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1904- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1905 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1906 to work more consistently.
1907 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1908
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1909- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1910 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1911 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1912
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1913- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1914 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1915
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1916- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1917 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1918 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1919 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1920 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1921
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1922- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1923 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1924
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1925- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1926 to the clients.
1927 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1928
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1929- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1930 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1931
7aa153b8 1932
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1933 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1934
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1935- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1936 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1937 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1938
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1939- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1940 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1941 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1942
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1943- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1944 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1945
a41d7a25
PS
1946- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1947
9e3eb22a
DH
1948- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1949 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1950 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1951 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1952 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1953 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1954
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1955- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1956 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1957 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1958 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1959 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1960 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1961 FQDN options by default).
1962
5a671e87
DH
1963- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1964 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1965 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1966 determined lease time) are omitted.
1967
adb95d23 1968- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1969 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1970 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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DH
1971
1972- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1973 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1974 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1975
59112e84
SR
1976 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1977
62f6843d
MA
1978- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1979
59112e84
SR
1980- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1981
47e6eb82
DH
1982- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1983 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1984 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1985 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1986 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1987
159c89d7
EH
1988- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1989
1aa0fe5e
DH
1990- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1991 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1992 had been deleted from configuration.
1993
cd51403d
SR
1994- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1995 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1996 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
1997 were being ignored.
1998
64e1823d
DH
1999- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
2000
26e59ee9
DH
2001- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
2002 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
2003 Nordahl.
2004
70ea9345
PS
2005- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
2006 dhcpv6 disabled.
2007
8d7dca58 2008- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 2009 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 2010
f4534b17
DH
2011- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
2012 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
2013
f9453d21
DH
2014- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
2015 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
2016 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
2017
2018- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
2019 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
2020 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
2021 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
2022 fewer system calls.
2023
a3dcc0b1
DH
2024- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
2025 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
2026 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
2027 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
2028 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
2029 Christof Chen.
2030
95fd7038
DH
2031- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
2032 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
2033 and in normal state.
2034
2035- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
2036 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
2037
8a3c1e33
PS
2038- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
2039
2040- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
2041 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
2042 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
2043
dedde1ba
DH
2044- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
2045 rather than restarting the listener.
2046
a57df74a
DH
2047- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
2048 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
2049
2050- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
2051 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
2052 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
2053
350576c5
DH
2054- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
2055 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
2056 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
2057 timeouts).
2058
792156a9
DH
2059- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
2060 in failover state records.
2061
8a4e543b
DH
2062! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
2063 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
2064 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 2065 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 2066
a1308b64
DH
2067- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
2068 processing a DHCPINFORM.
2069
1b12d999
DH
2070- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
2071 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
2072 last option definition is used.
2073
d453265f
PS
2074- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
2075 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
2076 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
2077
3e29af1e
PS
2078- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
2079 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
2080
b8d45c67
DH
2081- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
2082 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
2083 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
2084 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
2085 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
2086 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
2087
583c1c16
DH
2088- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
2089 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
2090 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
2091 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
2092
e4e3a2ab
DH
2093! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
2094 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 2095
875e99dc
SR
2096- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
2097 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
2098
2267da84
DH
2099- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
2100 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
2101 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
2102 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
2103 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 2104 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
2105 configuration.
2106
cd3f0b9b
DH
2107- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
2108 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
2109
0493fdca
SR
2110- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
2111 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
2112 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
2113 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
2114
95bba8b6
SR
2115- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
2116 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
2117 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 2118 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 2119
adbef119 2120 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
2121
2122- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
2123 be recognized.
61d75ea2 2124
a4ffedd1
DH
2125 Changes since 4.1.0a2
2126
2127- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
2128 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
2129 "abandoned".
2130
6ff3b26d
FD
2131- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
2132
1387545f
DH
2133- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
2134 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
2135
2136- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
2137 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
2138
2139- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 2140 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 2141
399d3dbe
DH
2142- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2143
fbcee149
DH
2144- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2145 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2146 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2147 in future releases.
2148
f1672d89
DH
2149- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2150 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2151
236d3a99
DH
2152- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2153 'dhclient -6' support.
2154
efa5e6b9
DH
2155- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2156 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2157 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2158 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2159
7d6180be 2160 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
2161
2162- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2163
51e7687f
EH
2164- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2165
20210a7b
EH
2166- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2167 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2168 only the latter. Fixed.
2169
535485df
EH
2170- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2171
8fbb55ff
DH
2172- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2173 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2174
61220a00
EH
2175- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2176
c40e954c
EH
2177- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2178
63971a83
DH
2179- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2180 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2181 --enable-early-chroot.
2182
66cebfcb
DH
2183- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2184 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2185
f8cbf390
DH
2186- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2187 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2188 parameter.
2189
8269561d
DH
2190- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2191 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2192
b445a411
DH
2193- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2194 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2195
bd72740e
FD
2196- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2197
9322442f
FD
2198- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2199
8dea7ba7
FD
2200- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2201
4619c0a2
DH
2202- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2203
9ac4206a
DH
2204- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2205 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2206 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2207
420d8b3f
FD
2208- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2209 support.
2210
40ec5f38
DH
2211- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2212 repaired.
2213
80097764
FD
2214- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2215
ffbaa880
FD
2216- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2217
7de20a95
EH
2218- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2219 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2220
d352732e
EH
2221- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2222 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2223
7d6180be
DH
2224- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2225 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2226
2227- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2228 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2229 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2230 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2231 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2232 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2233 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2234 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2235 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2236 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2237 shared-network.
2238
2239- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2240 configured option values.
2241
2242- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2243 support class statements.
2244
adb95d23 2245- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2246 selection were repaired.
2247
ecddae64
DH
2248- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2249 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2250 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2251 by the OS.
2252
2253- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2254 address.
2255
2256- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2257 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2258
d104d45b
DH
2259- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2260
2261- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2262
2263- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2264 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2265
01a54c17 2266 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2267
6d7f9584
FD
2268- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2269
4cafb815 2270- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2271 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2272
022fe95e
EH
2273- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2274 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2275 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2276
9a111ee8 2277- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1dcc3612
SK
2278 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2279
aabfa4de
FD
2280- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2281
0674055a
FD
2282- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2283 reserved IDs avoided).
2284
b51c785f
FD
2285- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2286
900405e9
FD
2287- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2288 carries a rapid-commit option.
2289
96b620e5
FD
2290- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2291 an empty active lease.
2292
be62cf06
FD
2293- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2294
01a54c17
EH
2295- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2296 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2297 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2298 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2299
adb95d23 2300- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2301
2302- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2303 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2304 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2305 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2306 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2307 Christof Chen.
2308
2309 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2310
2311- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2312
2313- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2314 config file but -6 is not specified.
2315
2316- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2317
2318- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2319 be more helpful.
2320
2321- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2322 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2323 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2324
2325- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2326 was repaired.
2327
2328- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2329 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2330 been repaired.
2331
2332- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2333 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2334 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2335
49f61135
DH
2336- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2337 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2338
41d4652f
DH
2339- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2340 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2341 IPv4 address.
2342
2c9bf1f4
DH
2343- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2344 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2345 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2346 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2347 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2348
2349- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2350 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2351 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2352
cff9b78f
SK
2353- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2354
c4d29896
SK
2355- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2356
57fcb8d9
SK
2357- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2358 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2359 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2360 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
SK
2361 unnecessary logging.
2362
219a65eb
DH
2363- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2364 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2365
ffdf3c8c
DH
2366- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2367 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2368 is incompatible is printed.
2369
2370- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2371 a previously undefined option code.
2372
00a002fc
MA
2373- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2374 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2375
9a111ee8 2376- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2377 than the year 2000.
2378
e2cfde76
FD
2379- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2380
cabdb9b1
FD
2381- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2382
5d89d60f
FD
2383- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2384
61d75ea2
DH
2385 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2386
2387- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2388 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2389 configuration.
76db44f9 2390
e32529a5
EH
2391- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2392 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2393
9a111ee8 2394- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
76db44f9
SK
2395 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2396 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2397
9a111ee8
TM
2398- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2399 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
6f76de58
SK
2400 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2401 a requested address.
2402
703873ab
DH
2403- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2404 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2405 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2406 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2407
2408- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2409 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2410 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2411 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2412
b024480e
DH
2413- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2414 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2415 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2416
c0216cb7
DH
2417- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2418 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2419
1ac57173
FD
2420- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2421
83835822
DH
2422- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2423 codes through some conditions.
2424
c54db708
FD
2425- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2426 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2427
e5d83524
DH
2428- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2429 seemingly random values.
2430
821f2dda
DH
2431- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2432
f8b3c6f4
DH
2433- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2434 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2435 one ever has.
2436
9a111ee8
TM
2437- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2438 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
b9137d42
SK
2439 to a REQUEST.
2440
9f1d5a2f
DH
2441- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2442 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2443 level.
2444
e4a6be15
DH
2445 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2446
65cf86d7
EH
2447- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2448
b1d3778c
DH
2449- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2450 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2451 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2452 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2453 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2454
bead14ea
DH
2455- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2456 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2457 new address.
2458
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2459 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2460
75135a3f 2461- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2462 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
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2463 simultaneously on a single interface.
2464
5c2d55c7
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2465- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2466 of service under unusual server configurations
2467
2468- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2469
9a111ee8 2470- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2471 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2472
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2473- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2474 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2475 on every pool rebalance run.
2476
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2477- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2478 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2479
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2480- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2481 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2482
ab3a540f 2483 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2484
9a111ee8 2485- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2486 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2487
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2488- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2489 point out the problem.
2490
9a111ee8 2491- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
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2492 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2493 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2494
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2495- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2496 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2497
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2498- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2499 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2500 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2501
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2502- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2503
9a111ee8 2504- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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2505 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2506
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2507- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2508 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2509 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2510 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2511
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2512- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2513
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2514- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2515 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2516 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2517 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2518 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2519
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2520- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2521
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2522 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2523
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2524- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2525 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2526
763cba6b 2527- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2528
237f8d3a 2529- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2530 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
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2531 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2532
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2533- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2534
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2535- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2536 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2537
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2538- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2539 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2540 loaded from persistent storage.
2541
45d545f0 2542- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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2543 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2544 necessary.
2545
9a111ee8
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2546- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2547 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2548 rapid-commit option.
2549
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2550- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2551 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2552
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2553 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2554
71765b58
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2555- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2556 and fix.
2557
847e7000
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2558- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2559
bda33169
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2560- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2561
9b21e73e
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2562- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2563 for when loading configuration.
2564
8da06bb1
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2565- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2566 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2567 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2568
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2569- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2570 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2571 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2572 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2573
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2574- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2575
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2576- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2577 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2578
c11f349d
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2579- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2580
af5fa176
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2581- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2582
2583- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2584 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2585
a546f2a7
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2586- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2587 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2588
b55d0d5f
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2589- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2590
26be82af
DH
2591- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2592 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2593
98bd7ca0
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2594 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2595
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2596- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2597
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2598- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2599 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2600
98bd7ca0
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2601- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2602
a512d11b
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2603- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2604 initialized.
2605
2606- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2607
2608- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2609 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2610
2611- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2612
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2613- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2614
2615- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2616 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2617
2618- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2619
8ea19a71 2620- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2621 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
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2622
2623- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2624 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2625
2cf8d0bd
DH
2626- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2627
2628- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2629
fe5b0fdd
DH
2630- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2631
98bd7ca0
DH
2632 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2633
2634- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2635 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2636 no support currently for both.
2637
2638- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2639 IAADDR option.
2640
2641- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2642 options.
2643
2644- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2645
2646- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2647 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2648
2649- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2650 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2651 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2652
2653- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2654 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2655
2656- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2657 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2658 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2659 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2660 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2661 differently, they both use the same code here).
2662
2663- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2664 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2665 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2666
2667- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2668
2669- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2670 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2671 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2672 it should not intercept.
2673
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2674 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2675
2676- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2677 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2678 between primary and secondary.
2679
2680- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2681 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2682 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2683
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2684- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2685
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2686- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2687 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2688 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2689 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2690 or REQUEST messages.
2691
2692- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2693 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2694
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2695- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2696
b9d0cc05
DH
2697 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2698
adb95d23 2699- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
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2700 failover protected subnets was removed.
2701
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2702 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2703
2704- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2705 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2706 odd number of leases).
2707
2708- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2709 rebalance run, and one after.
2710
2711- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2712 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2713 processing these messages.
2714
fe5b0fdd 2715 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2716
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2717- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2718 objects.
2719
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2720- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2721 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2722 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2723 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2724 at Allianz.
2725
a58da042
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2726- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2727 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2728
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2729- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2730 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2731
27837f95
DH
2732- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2733 caused the server to abort.
2734
4d2eaafb
DH
2735- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2736 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2737 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2738
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2739- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2740 by empty spaces would not get included.
2741
d6614ea2
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2742- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2743 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2744
132d38f2
DH
2745- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2746 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2747
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2748- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2749 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2750
c9feb859
DH
2751- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2752 on the parameter request list.
2753
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2754 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2755
2756- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2757
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2758 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2759
2760- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2761 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2762
85edef5c
DH
2763- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2764 domain-search option syntax.
2765
bdddcb7d
DH
2766 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2767
2768- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2769 hash table was repaired.
2770
616d67cb
DH
2771- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2772 entering normal state.
2773
2774- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2775 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
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2776 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2777
2778- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2779 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2780
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2781- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2782 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2783 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2784 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2785
45d545f0 2786- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
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2787 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2788 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2789 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2790 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2791 to their needs.
2792
2793- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2794 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2795 run will attempt balance.
2796
a7ee93fe
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2797- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2798
98311e4b
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2799 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2800
2801- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2802 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2803 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2804 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2805
98bd7ca0 2806- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2807 was introduced.
98311e4b
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2808
2809- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2810 via OMAPI.
2811
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2812- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2813 the protocol draft.
2814
98311e4b
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2815- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2816 one does not already exist on the system.
2817
b43c87ad 2818- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2819
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2820- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2821 matches RFC 3074.
2822
2727c1cf
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2823- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2824 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2825 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2826
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DH
2827- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2828 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2829 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2830
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DH
2831- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2832 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2833 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2834 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2835
2836- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2837 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2838 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2839 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2840
f7fdb216 2841- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2842 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
f7fdb216
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2843 DHCPv6 support.
2844
5e864416
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2845- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2846 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2847 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2848
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2849- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2850 have been incorporated.
2851
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2852- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2853 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2854 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2855 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2856 that belong to the peer in need.
2857
2858- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2859 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2860
2861- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2862 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2863 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2864
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2865- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2866 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2867
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2868- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2869 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2870 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2871 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2872 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2873
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2874- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2875 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2876 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2877 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2878
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2879- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2880 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2881 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2882 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2883 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2884 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2885 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2886 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2887 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2888
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2889- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2890 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2891
41e45067 2892- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
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2893 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2894 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2895 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2896
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2897- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2898 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2899 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2900 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2901
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2902- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2903 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2904 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2905 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2906 via Robin Breathe.
2907
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2908- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2909 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2910 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2911 from Christof Chen.
2912
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2913- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2914 formally supported.
2915
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2916 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2917
2918- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2919 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2920
c1e6c832
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2921 Changes since 3.0.5
2922
f546c28b
DH
2923- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2924 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2925 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2926 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
2927
2928- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2929
c1e6c832
DH
2930- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2931 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
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2932 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2933 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2934
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2935- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2936
d69fb6a8 2937- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2938 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2939
02428754
DH
2940- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2941 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2942 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2943 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2944 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2945 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2946 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
DH
2947 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2948
2949- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2950 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2951 'file' field.
02428754 2952
ecde99a3
DH
2953- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2954 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2955
67674ffb
DH
2956- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2957 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2958 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2959
830ebc4c
DH
2960- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2961 from Chris Wagner.
2962
c759db75
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2963- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2964 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2965 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2966
9aa3f3a5
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2967- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2968 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2969 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2970 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2971 was set.
2972
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2973- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2974 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2975
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2976- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2977 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2978 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2979 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2980 active ones.
2981
02428754 2982 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2983
901306d5 2984- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2985 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2986 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2987 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2988 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2989
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2990- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2991 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2992
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2993 Changes since 3.0.4
2994
2995- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2996 scopes are actually global has been added.
2997
2998- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2999 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
3000 known to be damaging.
3001
3002- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
3003 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
3004 balancing).
3005
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3006- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
3007 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
3008 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
3009
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3010- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
3011 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
3012 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
3013
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3014- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
3015 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
3016 more clear now.
3017
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3018- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
3019 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
3020 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
3021 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
3022 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 3023 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 3024
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3025- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
3026 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
3027
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3028- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
3029 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
3030 made possible.
3031
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3032- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
3033 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
3034 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
3035
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3036- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
3037 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
3038
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3039- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
3040 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
3041 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
3042
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3043- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
3044 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
3045 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
3046 value with the later configured value).
3047
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3048- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
3049 have been named and documented.
3050
3051- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
3052 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
3053 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
3054 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
3055 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
3056 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
3057 write new output.
3058
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3059 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
3060
3061- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
3062 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
3063
3064 Changes since 3.0.4b3
3065
3066- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
3067 mailing list.
3068
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3069 Changes since 3.0.4b2
3070
45d545f0 3071- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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3072 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
3073
3074- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
3075 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
3076
3077- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
3078 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
3079 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
3080 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
3081
3082- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
3083 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
3084 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
3085 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
3086 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
3087 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
3088 transition (properly).
3089
3090- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
3091
3092 Changes since 3.0.4b1
3093
3094- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
3095 STDIN after reading one line.
3096
3097- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
3098 descriptor it opened twice.
3099
3100- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
3101 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
3102 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
3103
3104 Changes since 3.0.3
3105
3106- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
3107 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
3108 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
3109
3110- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
3111 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
3112 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
3113
3114- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
3115 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 3116 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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3117 leases to allocate.
3118
3119- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 3120 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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3121 than the entire block of them.
3122
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3123! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
3124 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
3125 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
3126 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
3127 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
3128 to a patch from infamous42md.
3129
3130! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
3131 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
3132 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
3133 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
3134 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
3135 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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3136
3137- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
3138 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
3139 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
3140
3141- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3142 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3143
3144- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3145 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3146 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3147 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3148 transitional states.
3149
3150- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3151 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3152 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3153
3154- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3155 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3156 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3157
3158- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3159 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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3160
3161- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3162 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3163
3164- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3165 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3166 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3167
3168- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3169 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3170
3171- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3172 repaired.
3173
3174- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3175 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3176 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3177 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3178
3179- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3180 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3181 data.
3182
3183- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3184 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3185 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3186 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3187 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3188
3189- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3190 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3191 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3192 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3193 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3194
3195- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3196 has been repaired.
3197
3198- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3199 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3200 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3201 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3202 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3203
3204- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3205 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3206
45d545f0 3207- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3208 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3209 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3210 move to 3.[01].x.
3211
3212- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3213 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3214
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3215 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3216
3217- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3218 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3219
3220- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3221 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3222 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3223 workaround.
3224
3225 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3226
3227- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3228 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3229
3230 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3231
3232- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3233 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3234 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3235
3236- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3237 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3238 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3239
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3240 Changes since 3.0.2
3241
3242- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3243 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3244 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3245
3246- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3247 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3248 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3249 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3250 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3251
3252- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3253 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3254 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3255
3256- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3257 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3258 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3259
3260- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3261 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3262 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3263 Peter Poeml.
3264
3265- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3266 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3267
3268- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3269 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3270 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3271 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3272 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3273 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3274
3275- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3276 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3277 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3278 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3279
3280- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3281 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3282 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3283 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3284
3285- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3286 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3287
3288- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3289 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3290 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3291
3292- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3293 7 bytes, and failover.
3294
3295- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3296 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3297 at Red Hat.
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3298
3299- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3300 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3301 should work better.
3302
3303- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3304 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3305 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3306
3307- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3308 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3309 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3310
3311 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3312
3313- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3314 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3315
3316 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3317
45d545f0 3318- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3319 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3320 overloading. This was repaired.
3321
3322- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3323 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3324 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3325 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3326 three chunks to fit.
3327
3328- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3329 were repaired.
3330
3331- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3332 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3333 leak).
3334
3335 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3336
3337- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3338 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3339
3340 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3341
3342- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3343
3344 Changes since 3.0.1
3345
3346- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3347 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3348 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3349
3350- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3351 name was not provided by the server.
3352
3353- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3354 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3355
3356- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3357 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3358
3359- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3360 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3361
3362- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3363
3364- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3365
3366- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3367 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3368 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3369 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3370 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3371
3372- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3373 the configuration be globally scoped.
3374
3375- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3376 Farkas.
3377
3378- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3379 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3380
3381- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3382 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3383
3384- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3385 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3386
3387- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3388 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3389 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3390 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3391
3392- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3393 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3394 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3395 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3396
3397- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3398 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3399 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3400
3401- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3402
3403- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3404 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3405 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3406
3407- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3408 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3409 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3410 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3411 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3412
3413- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3414 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3415
3416- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3417 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3418
3419- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3420 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3421 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3422 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3423
3424- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3425 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3426
3427- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3428 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3429 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3430
3431- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3432 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3433 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3434 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3435 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3436 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3437
3438- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3439 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3440 Infoblox.
3441
3442- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3443
3444- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3445 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3446 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3447 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3448 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3449 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3450 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3451
3452- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3453 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3454 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3455
3456- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3457 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3458 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3459
3460- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3461
3462 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3463
3464- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3465 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3466 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3467 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3468 systems either.
3469
3470- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3471
3472- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3473 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3474 is false.
3475
3476- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3477 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3478
3479- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3480
3481 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3482
3483! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3484 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3485 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3486 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3487 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3488 both finding and solving the problem.
3489
3490! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3491 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3492 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3493 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3494 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3495 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3496 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3497 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3498 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3499 published version of ISC DHCP.
3500
3501- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3502
3503- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3504
3505 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3506
3507- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3508 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3509 Richard Hirst.
3510
3511- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3512 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3513 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3514
3515- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3516
3517- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3518 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3519 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3520 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3521
3522- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3523 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3524
3525- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3526 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3527
3528- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3529
3530 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3531
3532- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3533 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3534
3535- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3536 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3537 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3538
3539- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3540 by name was fixed.
3541
45d545f0 3542- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3543 longer result in error.
3544
3545- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3546
3547- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3548 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3549 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3550
3551- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3552 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3553
3554- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3555 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3556 Blapp.
3557
3558- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3559 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3560 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3561 Martin Blapp.
3562
3563- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3564 expiry times in failover configurations.
3565
3566- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3567 Steve G.
3568
3569- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3570 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3571
3572- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3573 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3574 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3575 now "unknown-144".
3576
3577- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3578 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3579
3580 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3581
3582- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3583
3584- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3585 not be bash.
3586
3587- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3588
3589- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3590 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3591 that errored before will now work properly.
3592
3593- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3594 names was repaired.
3595
3596- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3597 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3598 configuration file.
3599
3600- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3601 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3602
3603- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3604 error rather than a null dereference.
3605
3606 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3607
3608- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3609
3610- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3611
3612- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3613 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3614
3615- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3616
3617- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3618
3619- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3620 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3621 self-corrupting lease databases.
3622
3623- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3624
3625- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3626 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3627
3628- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3629
3630- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3631
3632- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3633 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3634 Ling Gou.
3635
3636- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3637 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3638
3639- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3640 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3641 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3642
3643- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3644 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3645
3646 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3647
3648- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3649 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3650
3651- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3652
3653- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3654 a memory leak.
3655
3656- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3657 script.
3658
3659- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3660
3661- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3662
3663- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3664
3665- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3666
3667- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3668
3669- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3670
3671- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3672
3673- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3674
3675- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3676
3677- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3678
3679- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3680
3681- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3682
3683 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3684
3685- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3686 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3687 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3688
3689 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3690
3691- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3692 to be renewed.
3693
3694- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3695 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3696
3697- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3698 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3699
3700- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3701 that two permit lists matched.
3702
3703- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3704 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3705
3706- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3707
3708- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3709 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3710
3711- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3712
3713- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3714
3715- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3716 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3717 going to update its A record.
3718
3719- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3720 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3721 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3722 DNS server.
3723
3724- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3725
3726- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3727
3728- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3729 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3730 NetBSD project).
3731
3732- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3733 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3734
3735- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3736 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3737
3738- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3739
3740- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3741
3742- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3743 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3744 failover protocol standard.
3745
3746- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3747 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3748 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3749
3750- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3751 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3752 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3753 do so.
3754
3755- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3756
3757 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3758
3759- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3760
3761- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3762 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3763
3764- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3765 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3766
3767- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3768 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3769 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3770
3771- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3772 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3773 network, merge the two pools.
3774
3775- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3776 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3777 fix this bug.
3778
3779 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3780
3781- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3782 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3783
3784- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3785 the same case.
3786
3787- Additional documentation.
3788
3789- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3790 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3791
3792 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3793
3794- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3795- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3796
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3798
3799- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3800 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3801 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3802 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3803 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3804
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3806
3807- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3808 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3809 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3810 wasn't the one that removed it.
3811
3812- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3813 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3814 were not configured.
3815
3816- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3817
3818- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3819 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3820 routing information.
3821
3822- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3823 request being sent.
3824
3825- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3826 done.
3827
3828- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3829 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3830 were pending.
3831
3832- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3833 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3834 problems with failover.
3835
3836- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3837 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3838 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3839
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3841
3842- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3843 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3844
3845- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3846 no object is open, it dumps core.
3847
3848- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3849
3850- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3851
3852- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3853
3854- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3855 a host object attribute with a null value.
3856
3857 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3858
3859- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3860
3861- Fix an obscure core dump.
3862
3863- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3864 when crucial information is left out.
3865
3866- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3867
3868- Documentation updates.
3869
3870 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3871
3872- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3873
3874- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3875 structure wasn't zeroed.
3876
3877- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3878 incorrectly.
3879
3880- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3881 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3882 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3883 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3884 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3885 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3886 restarted.
3887
3888 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3889
3890- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3891 in failover-enabled pools.
3892
3893- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3894 declarations).
3895
3896- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3897 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3898
3899- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3900 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3901
3902- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3903
3904- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3905 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3906
3907- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3908
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3910
3911- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3912
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3913 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3914
3915- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3916
3917- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3918
3919- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3920
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3921 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3922
3923- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3924 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3925 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3926
3927- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3928 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3929 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3930 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3931 string.
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3932
3933- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3934
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3935 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3936
3937- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3938 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3939
3940- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3941 malformed packets.
3942
3943- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3944
3945- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3946 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3947 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3948
3949- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3950
3951- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3952
3953- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3954
3955- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3956 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3957
3958- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3959 tcp connections from being played back.
3960
3961- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3962 on exit.
3963
3964- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3965
3966- Add some configurability to the build system.
3967
3968- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3969
3970- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3971 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3972 hadn't been noticed until now.
3973
3974 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3975
3976- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3977 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3978
3979- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3980 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3981 conformant, but also didn't work).
3982
3983- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3984 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3985
3986- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3987 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3988
3989- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3990 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3991
3992- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3993 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3994
3995- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3996 doing failover.
3997
3998- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3999 running on alpha processors.
4000
4001- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
4002 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
4003
4004- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
4005
4006- Install omshell (including new documentation).
4007
4008- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
4009 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
4010
4011- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
4012
4013- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
4014 actually named (key names are domain names).
4015
4016- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
4017
4018- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
4019 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
4020
4021- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
4022 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
4023
4024- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
4025 statements.
4026
4027- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
4028 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
4029
4030- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
4031 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
4032 operating.
4033
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4034 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
4035
4036- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
4037 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
4038 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
4039 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
4040
4041- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
4042 using omapi to manipulate leases.
4043
4044- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
4045
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4046 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
4047
4048- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
4049 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
4050
4051- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
4052 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
4053 to the chain.
4054
4055- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
4056
4057- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
4058
4059- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
4060
98311e4b 4061- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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4062 attribute values in omshell.
4063
98311e4b 4064- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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4065
4066- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
4067
4068 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
4069
4070- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
4071 DHCPDECLINE.
4072
4073- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
4074
4075- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
4076 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
4077 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
4078
4079- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
4080
4081- Documentation fixes.
4082
4083- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
4084 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
4085
4086- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
4087 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
4088
4089- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
4090
4091- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
4092
4093- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
4094 case-insensitive.
4095
4096- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
4097
98311e4b 4098- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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4099 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
4100 consistently.
4101
4102- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
4103 systems with the probe not working correctly.
4104
4105- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
4106
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4107 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
4108
4109- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
4110 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
4111 result of duplicate leases.
4112
4113- Document OMAPI server objects.
4114
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4115 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
4116
4117- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
4118 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
4119
4120- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
4121 core dumps.
4122
4123- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
4124 Friedrich.
4125
4126- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
4127
4128 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
4129
4130- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
4131 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 4132 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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4133 billing class code.
4134
4135- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
4136 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
4137
4138- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
4139 trace file.
4140
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4143- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4144 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4145 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4146 e.g., Digital Unix.
4147
4148- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4149 when no error had occurred.
4150
4151- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4152 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4153 non-communicating state.
4154
4155- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4156
4157- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4158 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4159 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4160
4161- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4162 when the client lease expired.
4163
4164- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4165 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4166 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4167 in testing.
4168
4169- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4170 the command line, it would fail.
4171
4172- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4173 user impact).
4174
4175- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4176
4177- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4178 they're executable.
4179
4180 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4181
4182- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4183 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4184 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4185 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4186
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4187- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4188 Transmeta.
4189
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4190- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4191 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4192 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4193 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4194
4195- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4196 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4197
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4198 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4199
4200- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4201 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4202
4203- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4204
4205- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4206
4207- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4208
4209- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4210
4211- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4212
4213- Update some parts of the README file.
4214
4215- Support GCC on SCO.
4216
adbef119 4217 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
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4218
4219- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4220 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4221
4222- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4223 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4224 unbill the old class.
4225
4226- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4227 process the state transition immediately.
4228
4229- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4230 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4231
4232- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4233
4234- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4235
4236- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4237
4238- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4239
4240- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4241 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4242 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4243
4244- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4245 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4246
4247- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4248 lease file.
4249
4250- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4251
4252- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4253
adbef119 4254 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
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4255
4256- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4257 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4258
4259- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4260
adbef119 4261 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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4262
4263- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4264
adbef119 4265 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
fc74dd0c
TL
4266
4267- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4268
4269- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4270 pl19.
4271
4272- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4273 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4274 past the regression test.
4275
adbef119 4276 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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TL
4277
4278- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4279 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4280
4281- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4282 DHCPREQUEST.
4283
4284- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4285
4286- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4287
4288- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4289
adbef119 4290 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 4291
3350f5b7
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4292- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4293 (Damien Neil)
4294
4295- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4296 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4297
4298- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4299 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4300 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4301
4302- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4303 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4304 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4305 message.
4306
4307- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4308 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4309 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4310
98311e4b 4311- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
3350f5b7
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4312 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4313 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4314 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4315 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4316 this way will work.
4317
b3fad8ac
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4318- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4319
4320- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4321 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4322 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4323 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4324
4325 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4326
4327 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4328
4329- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4330 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4331 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4332
4333- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4334 Hermann Lauer.
4335
4336- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4337 messages.
4338
3350f5b7
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4339- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4340 it contained quoted strings.
4341
b3fad8ac
TL
4342 ** there was no pl17 **
4343
adbef119 4344 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 4345
6da9db9d
TL
4346- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4347 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4348 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4349 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4350 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4351 tracking down memory leaks.
4352
4353- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4354 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4355 Solaris.
4356
4357- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4358 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4359 corruption and core dumps.
4360
4361- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4362 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4363
4364- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4365
4366- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4367 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4368
4369- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4370 name and version to standard output.
4371
4372- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4373
e6d30fd6
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4374- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4375 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4376
6da9db9d
TL
4377- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4378
4379- Lots of documentation updates.
4380
4381- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4382 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4383
4384- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4385
4386- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4387 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4388
adbef119 4389 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
af49fdff
TL
4390
4391- Some documentation tweaks.
4392
4393- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4394
4395- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4396
4397- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4398 agent options into them.
4399
4400- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4401
c5b569f8
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4402- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4403 options.
4404
adbef119 4405 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
754ae3e9
TL
4406
4407- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4408 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4409 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4410 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4411 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4412
4413- Fix up documentation.
4414
4415- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4416 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4417
4418- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4419
4420- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4421
4422- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4423 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4424 practical use otherwise.
4425
4426- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4427 for debugging.
4428
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4430
4431- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4432 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4433 dump on some systems.
4434
4435- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4436 option.
4437
4438- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4439 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4440
4441- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4442 that were not printing enough information.
4443
4444- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4445 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4446
4447- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4448 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4449 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4450 were answering.
4451
4452- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4453 the transition.
9a111ee8 4454
2f2e7960 4455
adbef119 4456 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
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4457
4458- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4459
a1e2e3d6
TL
4460 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4461
4462- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4463 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4464 representation from working correctly.
4465
4466- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4467 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4468 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4469 could spin.
4470
4471- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4472 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4473
4474- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4475 interface name on the command line.
4476
4477- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4478 client state.
4479
4480- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4481 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4482 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4483 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4484 added by Ted Lemon.
4485
4486- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4487 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4488
4489- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4490 end option.
4491
4492- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4493 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4494 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4495
4496- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4497 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4498 face of a null hardware address on input.
4499
4500- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4501 specified unqualified.
4502
4503- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4504 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4505
4506- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4507 RFC.
4508
4509- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4510
4511- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4512
4513- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4514 it works.
4515
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4516 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4517
4518- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4519 to CVS.
4520
9fd337e7
TL
4521 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4522
4523- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4524
4525- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4526 in patchlevel 9.
4527
4528- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4529 options at renewal time.
4530
4531- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4532 configuration language.
4533
4534- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4535
4536- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4537 done when no client hostname was received.
4538
4539- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4540
4541- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4542 the DHCP option space.
4543
4544- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4545
4546- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4547 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4548
4549- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4550 silently dropped.
4551
4552- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4553 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4554
4555- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4556 will be correctly updated.
4557
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4558 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4559
4560- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4561 bounds-checking.
4562
4563 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
4564
4565- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4566
3922772a 4567 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 4568
f8572308
TL
4569- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4570 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4571 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4572
4573- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4574 option.
4575
4576- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4577 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4578 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4579 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4580 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4581 meaningfully.
4582
4583- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4584 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4585 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4586
4587- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4588 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4589 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4590 this one down!
4591
4592- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4593 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4594 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4595 down and fixing this problem.
4596
4597 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4598
0f6045f8
TL
4599- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4600 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4601
4602- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4603 environment.
4604
4605- Fix suffix operator.
4606
4607- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4608
4609- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4610 connection code.
4611
4612- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4613
4614- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4615
4616- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4617 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4618
4619- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4620
4621- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4622
4623- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4624 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4625
4626- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4627 spawn with.
4628
4629- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4630 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4631
4632- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4633 for OMAPI.
4634
4635- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4636 can install in host declarations.
4637
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TL
4638 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4639
4640- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4641 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4642 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4643 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4644 comments)!
4645
4646- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4647
6ed7a93d
TL
4648- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4649 request for help on this with patches!
4650
4651- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4652 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4653 lost, they never reconnect.
4654
4655- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4656 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4657
4658- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4659 dump.
4660
4661- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4662 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4663 catching this one.
4664
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4665 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4666
4667- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4668 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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4669 lease renewal time.
4670
4671- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4672 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4673 declared without a key.
4674
4675- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4676
4677- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4678 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4679
4680- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4681 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4682 determine the maximum size of the response.
4683
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4684 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4685
359b023e
TL
4686- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4687 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4688
592d8153
TL
4689- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4690 RENEWING client.
4691
4692- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4693
4694- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4695 using memcmp().
4696
2aa36519
TL
4697 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4698
4699- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4700 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4701 pointing this out.
4702
4703- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4704 exit.
4705
4706- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4707
4708- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4709 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.