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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.0b2
43
44- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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46 Changes since 4.2.0b1
47
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48- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
49 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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51! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
52 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 53 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 54 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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56- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
57
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58- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
59 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
60 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
61 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
62 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
63
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64- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
65 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
66 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
67 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
68 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
69
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70- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
71
600ee619 72- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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73 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
74
75- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
76 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
77 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
78 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
79 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
80 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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82- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
83 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
84
85 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
86 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
87
88 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
89 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
90
91 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
92 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
93
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94 Changes since 4.2.0a2
95
96- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
97 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
98
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99- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
100 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
101 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 102 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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104- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
105 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
106 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
107 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
108 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
109 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
110 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
111 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
112 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
113
3c941d42 114 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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115
116- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
117 is no longer truncated to one octet.
118
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119- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
120
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121- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
122 reflect support for prefix delegation.
123
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124- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
125
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126- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
127 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
128 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
129 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
130 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
131 entry for each lease.
132
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133- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
134
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135 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
136
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137- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
138 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 139 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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141- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
142 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
143 Cantrell at Red Hat.
144
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145- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
146 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
147
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148- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
149
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150- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
151 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
152 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
153 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
154 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
155 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
156
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157- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
158 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
159 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
160 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
161 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
162 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
163 FQDN options by default).
164
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165- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
166 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
167 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
168 determined lease time) are omitted.
169
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170- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
171 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
172 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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173
174- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
175 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
176 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
177
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178 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
179
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180- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
181
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182- Validate the argument to the -p option.
183
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184- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
185 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
186 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
187 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
188 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
189
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190- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
191
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192- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
193 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
194 had been deleted from configuration.
195
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196- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
197 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 198 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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199 were being ignored.
200
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201- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
202
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203- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
204 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
205 Nordahl.
206
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207- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
208 dhcpv6 disabled.
209
8d7dca58 210- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 211 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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213- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
214 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
215
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216- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
217 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
218 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
219
220- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
221 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
222 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
223 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
224 fewer system calls.
225
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226- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
227 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
228 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
229 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
230 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
231 Christof Chen.
232
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233- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
234 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
235 and in normal state.
236
237- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
238 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
239
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240- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
241
242- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
243 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
244 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
245
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246- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
247 rather than restarting the listener.
248
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249- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
250 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
251
252- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
253 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
254 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
255
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256- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
257 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
258 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
259 timeouts).
260
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261- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
262 in failover state records.
263
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264! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
265 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
266 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 267 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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269- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
270 processing a DHCPINFORM.
271
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272- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
273 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
274 last option definition is used.
275
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276- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
277 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
278 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
279
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280- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
281 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
282
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283- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
284 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
285 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
286 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
287 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
288 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
289
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290- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
291 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
292 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
293 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
294
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295! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
296 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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298- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
299 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
300
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301- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
302 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
303 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
304 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
305 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 306 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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307 configuration.
308
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309- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
310 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
311
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312- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
313 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
314 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
315 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
316
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317- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
318 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
319 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
320 was always properly set.
321
adbef119 322 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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324- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
325 be recognized.
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327 Changes since 4.1.0a2
328
329- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
330 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
331 "abandoned".
332
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333- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
334
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335- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
336 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
337
338- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
339 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
340
341- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 342 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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344- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
345
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346- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
347 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
348 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
349 in future releases.
350
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351- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
352 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
353
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354- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
355 'dhclient -6' support.
356
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357- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
358 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
359 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
360 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
361
7d6180be 362 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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364- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
365
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366- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
367
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368- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
369 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
370 only the latter. Fixed.
371
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372- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
373
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374- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
375 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
376
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377- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
378
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379- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
380
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381- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
382 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
383 --enable-early-chroot.
384
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385- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
386 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
387
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388- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
389 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
390 parameter.
391
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392- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
393 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
394
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395- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
396 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
397
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398- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
399
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400- Merged IA_XX related structures.
401
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402- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
403
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404- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
405
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406- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
407 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
408 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
409
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410- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
411 support.
412
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413- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
414 repaired.
415
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416- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
417
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418- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
419
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420- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
421 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
422
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423- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
424 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
425
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426- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
427 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
428
429- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
430 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
431 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
432 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
433 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
434 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
435 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
436 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
437 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
438 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
439 shared-network.
440
441- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
442 configured option values.
443
444- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
445 support class statements.
446
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447- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
448 selection were repaired.
449
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450- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
451 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
452 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
453 by the OS.
454
455- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
456 address.
457
458- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
459 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
460
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461- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
462
463- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
464
465- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
466 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
467
01a54c17 468 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
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470- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
471
4cafb815 472- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 473 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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475- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
476 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
477 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
478
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479- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
480 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
481
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482- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
483
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484- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
485 reserved IDs avoided).
486
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487- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
488
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489- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
490 carries a rapid-commit option.
491
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492- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
493 an empty active lease.
494
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495- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
496
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497- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
498 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
499 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
500 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
501
502- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
503
504- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
505 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
506 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
507 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
508 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
509 Christof Chen.
510
511 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
512
513- DHCP now builds on AIX.
514
515- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
516 config file but -6 is not specified.
517
518- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
519
520- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
521 be more helpful.
522
523- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
524 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
525 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
526
527- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
528 was repaired.
529
530- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
531 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
532 been repaired.
533
534- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
535 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
536 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
537
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538- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
539 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
540
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541- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
542 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
543 IPv4 address.
544
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545- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
546 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
547 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
548 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
549 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
550
551- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
552 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
553 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
554
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555- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
556
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557- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
558
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559- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
560 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
561 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
562 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
563 unnecessary logging.
564
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565- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
566 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
567
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568- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
569 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
570 is incompatible is printed.
571
572- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
573 a previously undefined option code.
574
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575- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
576 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
577
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578- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
579 than the year 2000.
580
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581- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
582
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583- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
584
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585- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
586
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587 Changes since 4.0.0b3
588
589- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
590 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
591 configuration.
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593- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
594 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
595
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596- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
597 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
598 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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600- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
601 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
602 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
603 a requested address.
604
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605- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
606 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
607 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
608 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
609
610- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
611 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
612 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
613 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
614
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615- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
616 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
617 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
618
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619- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
620 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
621
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622- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
623
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624- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
625 codes through some conditions.
626
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627- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
628 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
629
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630- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
631 seemingly random values.
632
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633- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
634
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635- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
636 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
637 one ever has.
638
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639- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
640 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
641 to a REQUEST.
642
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643- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
644 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
645 level.
646
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647 Changes since 4.0.0b2
648
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649- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
650
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651- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
652 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
653 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
654 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
655 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
656
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657- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
658 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
659 new address.
660
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661 Changes since 4.0.0b1
662
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663- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
664 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
665 simultaneously on a single interface.
666
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667- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
668 of service under unusual server configurations
669
670- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
671
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672- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
673 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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675- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
676 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
677 on every pool rebalance run.
678
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679- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
680 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
681
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682- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
683 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
684
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687- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
688 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
689
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690- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
691 point out the problem.
692
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693- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
694 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
695 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
696
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697- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
698 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
699
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700- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
701 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
702 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
703
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704- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
705
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706- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
707 fixed by Marcus Goller.
708
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709- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
710 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
711 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
712 regardless of the existence of bindings.
713
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714- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
715
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716- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
717 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
718 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
719 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
720 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
721
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722- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
723
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724 Changes since 4.0.0a2
725
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726- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
727 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
728
763cba6b 729- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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731- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
732 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
733 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
734
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735- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
736
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737- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
738 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
739
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740- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
741 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
742 loaded from persistent storage.
743
45d545f0 744- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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745 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
746 necessary.
747
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748- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
749 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
750 rapid-commit option.
751
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752- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
753 non-128-bits in length were removed.
754
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755 Changes since 4.0.0a1
756
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757- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
758 and fix.
759
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760- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
761
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762- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
763
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764- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
765 for when loading configuration.
766
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767- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
768 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
769 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
770
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771- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
772 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
773 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
774 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
775
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776- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
777
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778- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
779 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 780
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781- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
782
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783- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
784
785- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
786 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
787
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788- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
789 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
790
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791- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
792
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793- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
794 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
795
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796 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
797
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798- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
799
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800- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
801 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
802
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803- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
804
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805- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
806 initialized.
807
808- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
809
810- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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811 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
812
813- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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815- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
816
817- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
818 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
819
820- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
821
8ea19a71 822- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 823 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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824
825- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
826 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
827
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828- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
829
830- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
831
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832- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
833
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834 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
835
836- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
837 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
838 no support currently for both.
839
840- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
841 IAADDR option.
842
843- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
844 options.
845
846- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
847
848- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
849 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
850
851- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
852 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
853 specifying type 1 or type 2).
854
855- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
856 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
857
858- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
859 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
860 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
861 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
862 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
863 differently, they both use the same code here).
864
865- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
866 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
867 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
868
869- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
870
871- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
872 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
873 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
874 it should not intercept.
875
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876 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
877
878- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
879 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
880 between primary and secondary.
881
882- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
883 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
884 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
885
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886- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
887
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888- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
889 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
890 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
891 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
892 or REQUEST messages.
893
894- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
895 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
896
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897- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
898
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899 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
900
901- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
902 failover protected subnets was removed.
903
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904 Changes since 3.1.0b2
905
906- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
907 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
908 odd number of leases).
909
910- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
911 rebalance run, and one after.
912
913- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
914 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
915 processing these messages.
916
fe5b0fdd 917 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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919- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
920 objects.
921
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922- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
923 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
924 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
925 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
926 at Allianz.
927
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928- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
929 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
930
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931- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
932 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
933
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934- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
935 caused the server to abort.
936
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937- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
938 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
939 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
940
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941- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
942 by empty spaces would not get included.
943
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944- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
945 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
946
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947- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
948 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
949
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950- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
951 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
952
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953- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
954 on the parameter request list.
955
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956 Changes since 3.1.0a3
957
958- Some spelling fixes.
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960 Changes since 3.1.0a2
961
962- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
963 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
964
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965- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
966 domain-search option syntax.
967
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968 Changes since 3.1.0a1
969
970- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
971 hash table was repaired.
972
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973- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
974 entering normal state.
975
976- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
977 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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978 'xid mismatch' log messages.
979
980- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
981 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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983- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
984 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
985 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
986 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
987
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989 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
990 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
991 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
992 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
993 to their needs.
994
995- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
996 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
997 run will attempt balance.
998
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999- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1000
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1001 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1002
1003- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1004 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1005 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1006 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1007
98bd7ca0 1008- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1009 was introduced.
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1010
1011- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1012 via OMAPI.
1013
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1014- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1015 the protocol draft.
1016
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1017- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1018 one does not already exist on the system.
1019
b43c87ad 1020- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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1022- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1023 matches RFC 3074.
1024
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1025- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1026 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1027 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1029- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1030 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1031 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1032
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1033- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1034 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1035 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1036 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1037
1038- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1039 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1040 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1041 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1042
f7fdb216 1043- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1044 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1045 DHCPv6 support.
1046
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1047- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1048 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1049 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1050
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1051- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1052 have been incorporated.
1053
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1054- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1055 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1056 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1057 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1058 that belong to the peer in need.
1059
1060- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1061 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1062
1063- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1064 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1065 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1066
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1067- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1068 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1069
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1070- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1071 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1072 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1073 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1074 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1075
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1076- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1077 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1078 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1079 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1080
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1081- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1082 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1083 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1084 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1085 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1086 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1087 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1088 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1089 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1090
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1091- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1092 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1093
41e45067 1094- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1095 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1096 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1097 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1098
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1099- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1100 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1101 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1102 hardware and funding the development.
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1104- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1105 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1106 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1107 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1108 via Robin Breathe.
1109
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1110- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1111 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1112 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1113 from Christof Chen.
1114
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1115- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1116 formally supported.
1117
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1118 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1119
1120- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1121 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1122
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1123 Changes since 3.0.5
1124
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1125- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1126 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1127 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1128 they actually received.
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1129
1130- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1131
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1132- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1133 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1134 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1135 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1137- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1138
d69fb6a8 1139- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1140 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1142- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1143 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1144 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1145 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1146 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1147 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1148 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1149 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1150
1151- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1152 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1153 'file' field.
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1155- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1156 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1157
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1158- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1159 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1160 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1161
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1162- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1163 from Chris Wagner.
1164
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1165- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1166 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1167 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1168
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1169- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1170 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1171 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1172 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1173 was set.
1174
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1175- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1176 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1177
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1178- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1179 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1180 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1181 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1182 active ones.
1183
02428754 1184 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1185
901306d5 1186- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1188 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1189 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1190 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1191
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1192- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1193 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1194
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1195 Changes since 3.0.4
1196
1197- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1198 scopes are actually global has been added.
1199
1200- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1201 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1202 known to be damaging.
1203
1204- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1205 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1206 balancing).
1207
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1208- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1209 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1210 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1211
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1212- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1213 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1214 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1215
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1216- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1217 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1218 more clear now.
1219
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1220- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1221 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1222 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1223 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1224 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1225 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1227- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1228 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1229
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1230- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1231 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1232 made possible.
1233
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1234- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1235 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1236 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1237
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1238- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1239 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1240
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1241- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1242 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1243 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1244
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1245- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1246 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1247 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1248 value with the later configured value).
1249
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1250- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1251 have been named and documented.
1252
1253- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1254 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1255 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1256 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1257 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1258 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1259 write new output.
1260
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1261 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1262
1263- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1264 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1265
1266 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1267
1268- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1269 mailing list.
1270
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1271 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1272
45d545f0 1273- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1274 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1275
1276- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1277 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1278
1279- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1280 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1281 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1282 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1283
1284- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1285 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1286 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1287 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1288 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1289 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1290 transition (properly).
1291
1292- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1293
1294 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1295
1296- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1297 STDIN after reading one line.
1298
1299- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1300 descriptor it opened twice.
1301
1302- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1303 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1304 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1305
1306 Changes since 3.0.3
1307
1308- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1309 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1310 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1311
1312- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1313 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1314 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1315
1316- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1317 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1318 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1319 leases to allocate.
1320
1321- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1322 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1323 than the entire block of them.
1324
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1325! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1326 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1327 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1328 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1329 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1330 to a patch from infamous42md.
1331
1332! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1333 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1334 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1335 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1336 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1337 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1338
1339- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1340 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1341 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1342
1343- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1344 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1345
1346- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1347 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1348 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1349 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1350 transitional states.
1351
1352- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1353 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1354 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1355
1356- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1357 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1358 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1359
1360- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1361 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1362
1363- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1364 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1365
1366- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1367 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1368 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1369
1370- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1371 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1372
1373- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1374 repaired.
1375
1376- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1377 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1378 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1379 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1380
1381- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1382 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1383 data.
1384
1385- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1386 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1387 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1388 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1389 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1390
1391- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1392 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1393 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1394 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1395 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1396
1397- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1398 has been repaired.
1399
1400- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1401 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1402 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1403 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1404 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1405
1406- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1407 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1408
45d545f0 1409- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1410 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1411 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1412 move to 3.[01].x.
1413
1414- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1415 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1416
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1417 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1418
1419- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1420 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1421
1422- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1423 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1424 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1425 workaround.
1426
1427 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1428
1429- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1430 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1431
1432 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1433
1434- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1435 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1436 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1437
1438- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1439 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1440 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1441
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1442 Changes since 3.0.2
1443
1444- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1445 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1446 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1447
1448- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1449 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1450 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1451 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1452 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1453
1454- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1455 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1456 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1457
1458- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1459 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1460 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1461
1462- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1463 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1464 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1465 Peter Poeml.
1466
1467- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1468 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1469
1470- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1471 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1472 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1473 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1474 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1475 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1476
1477- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1478 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1479 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1480 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1481
1482- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1483 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1484 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1485 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1486
1487- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1488 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1489
1490- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1491 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1492 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1493
1494- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1495 7 bytes, and failover.
1496
1497- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1498 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1499 at Red Hat.
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1500
1501- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1502 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1503 should work better.
1504
1505- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1506 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1507 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1508
1509- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1510 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1511 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1512
1513 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1514
1515- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1516 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1517
1518 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1519
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1521 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1522 overloading. This was repaired.
1523
1524- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1525 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1526 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1527 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1528 three chunks to fit.
1529
1530- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1531 were repaired.
1532
1533- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1534 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1535 leak).
1536
1537 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1538
1539- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1540 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1541
1542 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1543
1544- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1545
1546 Changes since 3.0.1
1547
1548- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1549 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1550 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1551
1552- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1553 name was not provided by the server.
1554
1555- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1556 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1557
1558- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1559 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1560
1561- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1562 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1563
1564- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1565
1566- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1567
1568- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1569 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1570 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1571 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1572 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1573
1574- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1575 the configuration be globally scoped.
1576
1577- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1578 Farkas.
1579
1580- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1581 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1582
1583- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1584 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1585
1586- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1587 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1588
1589- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1590 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1591 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1592 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1593
1594- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1595 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1596 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1597 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1598
1599- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1600 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1601 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1602
1603- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1604
1605- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1606 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1607 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1608
1609- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1610 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1611 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1612 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1613 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1614
1615- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1616 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1617
1618- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1619 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1620
1621- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1622 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1623 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1624 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1625
1626- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1627 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1628
1629- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1630 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1631 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1632
1633- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1634 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1635 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1636 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1637 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1638 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1639
1640- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1641 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1642 Infoblox.
1643
1644- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1645
1646- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1647 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1648 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1649 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1650 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1651 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1652 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1653
1654- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1655 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1656 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1657
1658- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1659 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1660 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1661
1662- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1663
1664 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1665
1666- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1667 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1668 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1669 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1670 systems either.
1671
1672- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1673
1674- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1675 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1676 is false.
1677
1678- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1679 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1680
1681- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1682
1683 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1684
1685! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1686 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1687 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1688 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1689 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1690 both finding and solving the problem.
1691
1692! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1694 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1695 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1696 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1697 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1698 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1699 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1700 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1701 published version of ISC DHCP.
1702
1703- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1704
1705- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1706
1707 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1708
1709- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1710 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1711 Richard Hirst.
1712
1713- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1714 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1715 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1716
1717- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1718
1719- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1720 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1721 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1722 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1723
1724- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1725 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1726
1727- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1728 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1729
1730- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1731
1732 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1733
1734- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1735 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1736
1737- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1738 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1739 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1740
1741- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1742 by name was fixed.
1743
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1745 longer result in error.
1746
1747- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1748
1749- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1750 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1751 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1752
1753- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1754 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1755
1756- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1757 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1758 Blapp.
1759
1760- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1761 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1762 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1763 Martin Blapp.
1764
1765- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1766 expiry times in failover configurations.
1767
1768- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1769 Steve G.
1770
1771- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1772 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1773
1774- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1775 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1776 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1777 now "unknown-144".
1778
1779- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1780 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1781
1782 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1783
1784- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1785
1786- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1787 not be bash.
1788
1789- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1790
1791- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1792 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1793 that errored before will now work properly.
1794
1795- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1796 names was repaired.
1797
1798- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1799 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1800 configuration file.
1801
1802- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1803 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1804
1805- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1806 error rather than a null dereference.
1807
1808 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1809
1810- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1811
1812- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1813
1814- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1815 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1816
1817- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1818
1819- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1820
1821- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1822 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1823 self-corrupting lease databases.
1824
1825- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1826
1827- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1828 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1829
1830- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1831
1832- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1833
1834- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1835 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1836 Ling Gou.
1837
1838- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1839 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1840
1841- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1842 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1843 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1844
1845- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1846 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1847
1848 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1849
1850- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1851 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1852
1853- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1854
1855- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1856 a memory leak.
1857
1858- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1859 script.
1860
1861- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1862
1863- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1864
1865- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1866
1867- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1868
1869- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1870
1871- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1872
1873- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1874
1875- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1876
1877- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1878
1879- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1880
1881- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1882
1883- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1884
1885 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1886
1887- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1888 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1889 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1890
1891 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1892
1893- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1894 to be renewed.
1895
1896- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1897 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1898
1899- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1900 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1901
1902- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1903 that two permit lists matched.
1904
1905- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1906 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1907
1908- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1909
1910- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1911 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1912
1913- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1914
1915- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1916
1917- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1918 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1919 going to update its A record.
1920
1921- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1922 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1923 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1924 DNS server.
1925
1926- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1927
1928- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1929
1930- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1931 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1932 NetBSD project).
1933
1934- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1935 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1936
1937- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1938 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1939
1940- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1941
1942- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1943
1944- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1945 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1946 failover protocol standard.
1947
1948- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1949 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1950 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1951
1952- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1953 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1954 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1955 do so.
1956
1957- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1958
1959 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1960
1961- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1962
1963- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1964 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1965
1966- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1967 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1968
1969- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1970 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1971 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1972
1973- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1974 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1975 network, merge the two pools.
1976
1977- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1978 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1979 fix this bug.
1980
1981 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1982
1983- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1984 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1985
1986- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1987 the same case.
1988
1989- Additional documentation.
1990
1991- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1992 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1993
1994 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1995
1996- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1997- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1998
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2000
2001- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2002 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2003 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2004 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2005 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2006
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2008
2009- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2010 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2011 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2012 wasn't the one that removed it.
2013
2014- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2015 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2016 were not configured.
2017
2018- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2019
2020- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2021 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2022 routing information.
2023
2024- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2025 request being sent.
2026
2027- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2028 done.
2029
2030- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2031 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2032 were pending.
2033
2034- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2035 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2036 problems with failover.
2037
2038- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2039 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2040 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2041
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2043
2044- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2045 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2046
2047- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2048 no object is open, it dumps core.
2049
2050- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2051
2052- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2053
2054- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2055
2056- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2057 a host object attribute with a null value.
2058
2059 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2060
2061- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2062
2063- Fix an obscure core dump.
2064
2065- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2066 when crucial information is left out.
2067
2068- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2069
2070- Documentation updates.
2071
2072 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2073
2074- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2075
2076- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2077 structure wasn't zeroed.
2078
2079- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2080 incorrectly.
2081
2082- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2083 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2084 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2085 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2086 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2087 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2088 restarted.
2089
2090 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2091
2092- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2093 in failover-enabled pools.
2094
2095- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2096 declarations).
2097
2098- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2099 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2100
2101- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2102 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2103
2104- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2105
2106- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2107 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2108
2109- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2110
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2112
2113- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2114
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2116
2117- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2118
2119- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2120
2121- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2122
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2124
2125- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2126 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2127 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2128
2129- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2130 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2131 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2132 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2133 string.
2134
2135- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2136
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2138
2139- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2140 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2141
2142- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2143 malformed packets.
2144
2145- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2146
2147- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2148 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2149 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2150
2151- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2152
2153- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2154
2155- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2156
2157- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2158 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2159
2160- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2161 tcp connections from being played back.
2162
2163- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2164 on exit.
2165
2166- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2167
2168- Add some configurability to the build system.
2169
2170- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2171
2172- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2173 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2174 hadn't been noticed until now.
2175
2176 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2177
2178- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2179 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2180
2181- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2182 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2183 conformant, but also didn't work).
2184
2185- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2186 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2187
2188- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2189 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2190
2191- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2192 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2193
2194- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2195 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2196
2197- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2198 doing failover.
2199
2200- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2201 running on alpha processors.
2202
2203- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2204 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2205
2206- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2207
2208- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2209
2210- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2211 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2212
2213- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2214
2215- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2216 actually named (key names are domain names).
2217
2218- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2219
2220- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2221 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2222
2223- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2224 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2225
2226- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2227 statements.
2228
2229- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2230 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2231
2232- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2233 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2234 operating.
2235
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2237
2238- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2239 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2240 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2241 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2242
2243- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2244 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2245
2246- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2247
2248
2249 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2250
2251- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2252 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2253
2254- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2255 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2256 to the chain.
2257
2258- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2259
2260- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2261
2262- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2263
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2266
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2269- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2270
2271 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2272
2273- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2274 DHCPDECLINE.
2275
2276- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2277
2278- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2279 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2280 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2281
2282- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2283
2284- Documentation fixes.
2285
2286- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2287 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2288
2289- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2290 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2291
2292- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2293
2294- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2295
2296- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2297 case-insensitive.
2298
2299- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2300
98311e4b 2301- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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2302 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2303 consistently.
2304
2305- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2306 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2307
2308- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2309
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2310 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2311
2312- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2313 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2314 result of duplicate leases.
2315
2316- Document OMAPI server objects.
2317
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2318 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2319
2320- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2321 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2322
2323- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2324 core dumps.
2325
2326- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2327 Friedrich.
2328
2329- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2330
2331 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2332
2333- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2334 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2335 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2336 billing class code.
2337
2338- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2339 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2340
2341- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2342 trace file.
2343
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2346- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2347 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2348 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2349 e.g., Digital Unix.
2350
2351- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2352 when no error had occurred.
2353
2354- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2355 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2356 non-communicating state.
2357
2358- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2359
2360- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2361 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2362 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2363
2364- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2365 when the client lease expired.
2366
2367- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2368 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2369 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2370 in testing.
2371
2372- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2373 the command line, it would fail.
2374
2375- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2376 user impact).
2377
2378- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2379
2380- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2381 they're executable.
2382
2383 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2384
2385- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2386 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2387 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2388 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2389
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2390- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2391 Transmeta.
2392
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2393- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2394 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2395 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2396 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2397
2398- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2399 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2400
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2401 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2402
2403- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2404 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2405
2406- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2407
2408- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2409
2410- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2411
2412- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2413
2414- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2415
2416- Update some parts of the README file.
2417
2418- Support GCC on SCO.
2419
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2421
2422- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2423 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2424
2425- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2426 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2427 unbill the old class.
2428
2429- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2430 process the state transition immediately.
2431
2432- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2433 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2434
2435- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2436
2437- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2438
2439- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2440
2441- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2442
2443- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2444 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2445 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2446
2447- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2448 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2449
2450- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2451 lease file.
2452
2453- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2454
2455- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2458
2459- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2460 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2461
2462- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2463
adbef119 2464 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2465
2466- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2467
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2469
2470- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2471
2472- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2473 pl19.
2474
2475- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2476 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2477 past the regression test.
2478
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2480
2481- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2482 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2483
2484- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2485 DHCPREQUEST.
2486
2487- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2488
2489- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2490
2491- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2492
adbef119 2493 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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2495- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2496 (Damien Neil)
2497
2498- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2499 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2500
2501- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2502 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2503 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2504
2505- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2506 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2507 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2508 message.
2509
2510- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2511 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2512 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2513
98311e4b 2514- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2515 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2516 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2517 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2518 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2519 this way will work.
2520
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2521- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2522
2523- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2524 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2525 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2526 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2527
2528 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2529
2530 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2531
2532- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2533 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2534 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2535
2536- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2537 Hermann Lauer.
2538
2539- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2540 messages.
2541
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2542- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2543 it contained quoted strings.
2544
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2545 ** there was no pl17 **
2546
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2549- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2550 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2551 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2552 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2553 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2554 tracking down memory leaks.
2555
2556- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2557 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2558 Solaris.
2559
2560- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2561 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2562 corruption and core dumps.
2563
2564- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2565 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2566
2567- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2568
2569- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2570 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2571
2572- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2573 name and version to standard output.
2574
2575- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2576
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2577- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2578 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2579
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2580- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2581
2582- Lots of documentation updates.
2583
2584- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2585 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2586
2587- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2588
2589- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2590 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2591
2592
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2594
2595- Some documentation tweaks.
2596
2597- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2598
2599- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2600
2601- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2602 agent options into them.
2603
2604- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2605
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2606- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2607 options.
2608
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2610
2611- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2612 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2613 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2614 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2615 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2616
2617- Fix up documentation.
2618
2619- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2620 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2621
2622- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2623
2624- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2625
2626- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2627 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2628 practical use otherwise.
2629
2630- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2631 for debugging.
2632
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2634
2635- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2636 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2637 dump on some systems.
2638
2639- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2640 option.
2641
2642- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2643 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2644
2645- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2646 that were not printing enough information.
2647
2648- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2649 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2650
2651- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2652 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2653 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2654 were answering.
2655
2656- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2657 the transition.
2658
2659
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2661
2662- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2663
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2664 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2665
2666- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2667 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2668 representation from working correctly.
2669
2670- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2671 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2672 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2673 could spin.
2674
2675- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2676 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2677
2678- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2679 interface name on the command line.
2680
2681- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2682 client state.
2683
2684- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2685 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2686 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2687 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2688 added by Ted Lemon.
2689
2690- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2691 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2692
2693- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2694 end option.
2695
2696- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2697 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2698 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2699
2700- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2701 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2702 face of a null hardware address on input.
2703
2704- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2705 specified unqualified.
2706
2707- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2708 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2709
2710- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2711 RFC.
2712
2713- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2714
2715- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2716
2717- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2718 it works.
2719
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2721
2722- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2723 to CVS.
2724
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2725 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2726
2727- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2728
2729- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2730 in patchlevel 9.
2731
2732- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2733 options at renewal time.
2734
2735- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2736 configuration language.
2737
2738- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2739
2740- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2741 done when no client hostname was received.
2742
2743- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2744
2745- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2746 the DHCP option space.
2747
2748- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2749
2750- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2751 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2752
2753- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2754 silently dropped.
2755
2756- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2757 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2758
2759- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2760 will be correctly updated.
2761
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2763
2764- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2765 bounds-checking.
2766
2767 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2768
2769- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2770
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2773- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2774 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2775 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2776
2777- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2778 option.
2779
2780- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2781 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2782 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2783 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2784 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2785 meaningfully.
2786
2787- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2788 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2789 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2790
2791- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2792 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2793 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2794 this one down!
2795
2796- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2797 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2798 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2799 down and fixing this problem.
2800
2801 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2802
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2803- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2804 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2805
2806- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2807 environment.
2808
2809- Fix suffix operator.
2810
2811- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2812
2813- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2814 connection code.
2815
2816- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2817
2818- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2819
2820- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2821 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2822
2823- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2824
2825- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2826
2827- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2828 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2829
2830- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2831 spawn with.
2832
2833- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2834 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2835
2836- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2837 for OMAPI.
2838
2839- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2840 can install in host declarations.
2841
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2843
2844- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2845 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2846 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2847 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2848 comments)!
2849
2850- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2851
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2852- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2853 request for help on this with patches!
2854
2855- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2856 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2857 lost, they never reconnect.
2858
2859- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2860 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2861
2862- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2863 dump.
2864
2865- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2866 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2867 catching this one.
2868
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2870
2871- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
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2873 lease renewal time.
2874
2875- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2876 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2877 declared without a key.
2878
2879- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2880
2881- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2882 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2883
2884- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2885 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2886 determine the maximum size of the response.
2887
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2889
359b023e
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2890- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2891 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2892
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2893- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2894 RENEWING client.
2895
2896- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2897
2898- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2899 using memcmp().
2900
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2901 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2902
2903- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2904 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2905 pointing this out.
2906
2907- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2908 exit.
2909
2910- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2911
2912- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2913 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.