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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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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 4.2.0b1
43
44- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM
45 Bug ticket 21092.
46
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47 Changes since 4.2.0a2
48
49- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
50 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
51
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52- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
53 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
54 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
55 from crashing. Bug ticket 21054.
56
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57- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
58 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
59 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
60 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
61 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
62 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
63 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
64 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
65 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
66
3c941d42 67 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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69- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
70 is no longer truncated to one octet.
71
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72- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
73
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74- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
75 reflect support for prefix delegation.
76
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77- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
78
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79- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
80 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
81 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
82 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
83 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
84 entry for each lease.
85
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86- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
87
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88 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
89
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90- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
91 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 92 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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94- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
95 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
96 Cantrell at Red Hat.
97
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98- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
99 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
100
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101- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
102
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103- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
104 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
105 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
106 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
107 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
108 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
109
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110- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
111 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
112 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
113 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
114 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
115 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
116 FQDN options by default).
117
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118- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
119 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
120 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
121 determined lease time) are omitted.
122
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123- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
124 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
125 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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126
127- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
128 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
129 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
130
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131 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
132
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133- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
134
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135- Validate the argument to the -p option.
136
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137- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
138 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
139 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
140 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
141 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
142
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143- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
144
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145- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
146 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
147 had been deleted from configuration.
148
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149- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
150 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 151 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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152 were being ignored.
153
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154- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
155
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156- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
157 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
158 Nordahl.
159
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160- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
161 dhcpv6 disabled.
162
8d7dca58 163- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 164 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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166- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
167 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
168
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169- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
170 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
171 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
172
173- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
174 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
175 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
176 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
177 fewer system calls.
178
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179- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
180 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
181 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
182 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
183 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
184 Christof Chen.
185
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186- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
187 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
188 and in normal state.
189
190- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
191 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
192
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193- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
194
195- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
196 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
197 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
198
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199- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
200 rather than restarting the listener.
201
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202- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
203 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
204
205- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
206 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
207 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
208
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209- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
210 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
211 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
212 timeouts).
213
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214- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
215 in failover state records.
216
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217! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
218 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
219 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 220 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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222- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
223 processing a DHCPINFORM.
224
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225- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
226 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
227 last option definition is used.
228
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229- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
230 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
231 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
232
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233- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
234 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
235
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236- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
237 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
238 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
239 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
240 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
241 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
242
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243- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
244 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
245 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
246 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
247
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248! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
249 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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251- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
252 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
253
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254- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
255 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
256 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
257 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
258 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 259 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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260 configuration.
261
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262- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
263 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
264
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265- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
266 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
267 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
268 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
269
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270- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
271 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
272 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
273 was always properly set.
274
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277- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
278 be recognized.
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280 Changes since 4.1.0a2
281
282- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
283 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
284 "abandoned".
285
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286- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
287
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288- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
289 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
290
291- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
292 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
293
294- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 295 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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297- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
298
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299- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
300 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
301 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
302 in future releases.
303
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304- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
305 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
306
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307- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
308 'dhclient -6' support.
309
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310- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
311 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
312 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
313 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
314
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317- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
318
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319- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
320
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321- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
322 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
323 only the latter. Fixed.
324
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325- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
326
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327- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
328 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
329
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330- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
331
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332- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
333
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334- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
335 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
336 --enable-early-chroot.
337
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338- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
339 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
340
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341- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
342 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
343 parameter.
344
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345- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
346 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
347
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348- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
349 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
350
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351- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
352
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353- Merged IA_XX related structures.
354
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355- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
356
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357- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
358
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359- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
360 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
361 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
362
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363- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
364 support.
365
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366- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
367 repaired.
368
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369- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
370
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371- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
372
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373- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
374 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
375
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376- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
377 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
378
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379- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
380 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
381
382- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
383 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
384 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
385 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
386 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
387 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
388 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
389 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
390 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
391 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
392 shared-network.
393
394- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
395 configured option values.
396
397- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
398 support class statements.
399
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400- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
401 selection were repaired.
402
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403- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
404 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
405 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
406 by the OS.
407
408- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
409 address.
410
411- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
412 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
413
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414- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
415
416- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
417
418- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
419 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
420
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423- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
424
4cafb815 425- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 426 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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428- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
429 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
430 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
431
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432- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
433 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
434
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435- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
436
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437- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
438 reserved IDs avoided).
439
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440- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
441
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442- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
443 carries a rapid-commit option.
444
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445- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
446 an empty active lease.
447
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448- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
449
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450- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
451 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
452 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
453 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
454
455- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
456
457- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
458 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
459 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
460 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
461 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
462 Christof Chen.
463
464 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
465
466- DHCP now builds on AIX.
467
468- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
469 config file but -6 is not specified.
470
471- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
472
473- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
474 be more helpful.
475
476- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
477 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
478 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
479
480- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
481 was repaired.
482
483- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
484 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
485 been repaired.
486
487- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
488 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
489 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
490
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491- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
492 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
493
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494- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
495 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
496 IPv4 address.
497
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498- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
499 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
500 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
501 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
502 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
503
504- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
505 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
506 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
507
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508- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
509
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510- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
511
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512- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
513 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
514 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
515 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
516 unnecessary logging.
517
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518- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
519 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
520
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521- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
522 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
523 is incompatible is printed.
524
525- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
526 a previously undefined option code.
527
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528- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
529 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
530
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531- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
532 than the year 2000.
533
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534- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
535
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536- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
537
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538- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
539
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540 Changes since 4.0.0b3
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542- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
543 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
544 configuration.
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546- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
547 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
548
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549- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
550 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
551 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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553- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
554 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
555 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
556 a requested address.
557
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558- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
559 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
560 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
561 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
562
563- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
564 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
565 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
566 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
567
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568- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
569 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
570 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
571
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572- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
573 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
574
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575- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
576
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577- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
578 codes through some conditions.
579
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580- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
581 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
582
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583- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
584 seemingly random values.
585
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586- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
587
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588- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
589 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
590 one ever has.
591
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592- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
593 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
594 to a REQUEST.
595
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596- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
597 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
598 level.
599
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600 Changes since 4.0.0b2
601
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602- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
603
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604- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
605 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
606 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
607 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
608 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
609
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610- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
611 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
612 new address.
613
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614 Changes since 4.0.0b1
615
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616- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
617 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
618 simultaneously on a single interface.
619
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620- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
621 of service under unusual server configurations
622
623- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
624
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625- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
626 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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628- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
629 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
630 on every pool rebalance run.
631
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632- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
633 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
634
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635- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
636 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
637
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640- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
641 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
642
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643- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
644 point out the problem.
645
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646- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
647 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
648 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
649
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650- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
651 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
652
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653- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
654 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
655 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
656
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657- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
658
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659- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
660 fixed by Marcus Goller.
661
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662- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
663 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
664 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
665 regardless of the existence of bindings.
666
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667- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
668
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669- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
670 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
671 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
672 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
673 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
674
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675- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
676
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677 Changes since 4.0.0a2
678
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679- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
680 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
681
763cba6b 682- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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684- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
685 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
686 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
687
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688- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
689
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690- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
691 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
692
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693- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
694 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
695 loaded from persistent storage.
696
45d545f0 697- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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698 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
699 necessary.
700
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701- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
702 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
703 rapid-commit option.
704
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705- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
706 non-128-bits in length were removed.
707
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708 Changes since 4.0.0a1
709
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710- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
711 and fix.
712
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713- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
714
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715- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
716
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717- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
718 for when loading configuration.
719
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720- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
721 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
722 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
723
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724- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
725 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
726 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
727 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
728
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729- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
730
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731- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
732 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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734- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
735
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736- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
737
738- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
739 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
740
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741- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
742 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
743
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744- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
745
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746- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
747 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
748
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749 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
750
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751- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
752
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753- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
754 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
755
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756- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
757
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758- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
759 initialized.
760
761- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
762
763- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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764 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
765
766- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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768- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
769
770- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
771 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
772
773- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
774
8ea19a71 775- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 776 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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777
778- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
779 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
780
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781- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
782
783- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
784
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785- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
786
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787 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
788
789- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
790 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
791 no support currently for both.
792
793- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
794 IAADDR option.
795
796- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
797 options.
798
799- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
800
801- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
802 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
803
804- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
805 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
806 specifying type 1 or type 2).
807
808- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
809 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
810
811- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
812 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
813 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
814 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
815 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
816 differently, they both use the same code here).
817
818- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
819 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
820 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
821
822- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
823
824- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
825 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
826 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
827 it should not intercept.
828
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829 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
830
831- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
832 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
833 between primary and secondary.
834
835- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
836 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
837 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
838
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839- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
840
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841- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
842 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
843 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
844 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
845 or REQUEST messages.
846
847- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
848 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
849
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850- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
851
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852 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
853
854- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
855 failover protected subnets was removed.
856
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857 Changes since 3.1.0b2
858
859- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
860 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
861 odd number of leases).
862
863- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
864 rebalance run, and one after.
865
866- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
867 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
868 processing these messages.
869
fe5b0fdd 870 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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872- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
873 objects.
874
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875- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
876 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
877 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
878 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
879 at Allianz.
880
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881- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
882 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
883
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884- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
885 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
886
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887- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
888 caused the server to abort.
889
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890- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
891 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
892 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
893
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894- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
895 by empty spaces would not get included.
896
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897- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
898 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
899
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900- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
901 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
902
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903- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
904 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
905
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906- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
907 on the parameter request list.
908
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909 Changes since 3.1.0a3
910
911- Some spelling fixes.
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913 Changes since 3.1.0a2
914
915- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
916 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
917
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918- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
919 domain-search option syntax.
920
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921 Changes since 3.1.0a1
922
923- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
924 hash table was repaired.
925
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926- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
927 entering normal state.
928
929- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
930 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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931 'xid mismatch' log messages.
932
933- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
934 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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936- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
937 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
938 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
939 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
940
45d545f0 941- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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942 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
943 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
944 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
945 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
946 to their needs.
947
948- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
949 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
950 run will attempt balance.
951
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952- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
953
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954 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
955
956- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
957 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
958 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
959 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
960
98bd7ca0 961- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 962 was introduced.
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963
964- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
965 via OMAPI.
966
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967- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
968 the protocol draft.
969
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970- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
971 one does not already exist on the system.
972
b43c87ad 973- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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975- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
976 matches RFC 3074.
977
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978- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
979 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 980 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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982- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
983 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 984 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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986- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
987 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
988 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
989 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
990
991- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
992 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
993 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
994 priority over the client's parameter request list.
995
f7fdb216 996- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 997 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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998 DHCPv6 support.
999
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1000- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1001 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1002 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1003
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1004- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1005 have been incorporated.
1006
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1007- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1008 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1009 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1010 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1011 that belong to the peer in need.
1012
1013- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1014 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1015
1016- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1017 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1018 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
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1020- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1021 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1022
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1023- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1024 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1025 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1026 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1027 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1028
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1029- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1030 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1031 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1032 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1033
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1034- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1035 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1036 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1037 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1038 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1039 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1040 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1041 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1042 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1043
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1044- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1045 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1046
41e45067 1047- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1048 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1049 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1050 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1051
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1052- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1053 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1054 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1055 hardware and funding the development.
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1057- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1058 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1059 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1060 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1061 via Robin Breathe.
1062
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1063- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1064 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1065 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1066 from Christof Chen.
1067
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1068- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1069 formally supported.
1070
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1071 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1072
1073- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1074 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1075
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1076 Changes since 3.0.5
1077
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1078- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1079 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1080 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1081 they actually received.
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1082
1083- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1084
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1085- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1086 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1087 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1088 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1090- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1091
d69fb6a8 1092- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1093 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1094
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1095- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1096 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1097 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1098 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1099 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1100 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1101 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1102 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1103
1104- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1105 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1106 'file' field.
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1108- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1109 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1110
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1111- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1112 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1113 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1114
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1115- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1116 from Chris Wagner.
1117
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1118- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1119 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1120 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1121
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1122- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1123 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1124 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1125 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1126 was set.
1127
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1128- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1129 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1130
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1131- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1132 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1133 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1134 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1135 active ones.
1136
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0a73b7b6 1138
901306d5 1139- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1140 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1141 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1142 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1143 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1144
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1145- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1146 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1147
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1148 Changes since 3.0.4
1149
1150- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1151 scopes are actually global has been added.
1152
1153- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1154 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1155 known to be damaging.
1156
1157- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1158 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1159 balancing).
1160
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1161- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1162 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1163 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1164
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1165- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1166 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1167 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1168
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1169- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1170 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1171 more clear now.
1172
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1173- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1174 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1175 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1176 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1177 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1178 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1180- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1181 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1182
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1183- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1184 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1185 made possible.
1186
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1187- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1188 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1189 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1190
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1191- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1192 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1193
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1194- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1195 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1196 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1197
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1198- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1199 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1200 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1201 value with the later configured value).
1202
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1203- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1204 have been named and documented.
1205
1206- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1207 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1208 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1209 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1210 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1211 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1212 write new output.
1213
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1214 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1215
1216- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1217 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1218
1219 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1220
1221- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1222 mailing list.
1223
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1224 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1225
45d545f0 1226- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1227 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1228
1229- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1230 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1231
1232- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1233 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1234 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1235 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1236
1237- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1238 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1239 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1240 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1241 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1242 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1243 transition (properly).
1244
1245- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1246
1247 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1248
1249- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1250 STDIN after reading one line.
1251
1252- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1253 descriptor it opened twice.
1254
1255- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1256 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1257 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1258
1259 Changes since 3.0.3
1260
1261- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1262 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1263 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1264
1265- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1266 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1267 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1268
1269- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1270 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1271 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1272 leases to allocate.
1273
1274- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1275 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1276 than the entire block of them.
1277
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1278! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1279 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1280 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1281 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1282 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1283 to a patch from infamous42md.
1284
1285! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1286 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1287 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1288 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1289 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1290 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1291
1292- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1293 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1294 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1295
1296- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1297 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1298
1299- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1300 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1301 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1302 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1303 transitional states.
1304
1305- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1306 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1307 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1308
1309- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1310 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1311 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1312
1313- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1314 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1315
1316- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1317 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1318
1319- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1320 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1321 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1322
1323- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1324 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1325
1326- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1327 repaired.
1328
1329- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1330 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1331 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1332 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1333
1334- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1335 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1336 data.
1337
1338- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1339 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1340 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1341 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1342 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1343
1344- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1345 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1346 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1347 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1348 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1349
1350- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1351 has been repaired.
1352
1353- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1354 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1355 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1356 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1357 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1358
1359- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1360 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1361
45d545f0 1362- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1363 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1364 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1365 move to 3.[01].x.
1366
1367- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1368 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1369
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1370 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1371
1372- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1373 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1374
1375- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1376 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1377 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1378 workaround.
1379
1380 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1381
1382- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1383 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1384
1385 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1386
1387- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1388 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1389 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1390
1391- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1392 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1393 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1394
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1395 Changes since 3.0.2
1396
1397- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1398 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1399 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1400
1401- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1402 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1403 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1404 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1405 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1406
1407- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1408 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1409 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1410
1411- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1412 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1413 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1414
1415- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1416 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1417 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1418 Peter Poeml.
1419
1420- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1421 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1422
1423- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1424 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1425 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1426 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1427 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1428 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1429
1430- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1431 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1432 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1433 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1434
1435- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1436 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1437 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1438 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1439
1440- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1441 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1442
1443- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1444 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1445 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1446
1447- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1448 7 bytes, and failover.
1449
1450- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1451 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1452 at Red Hat.
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1453
1454- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1455 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1456 should work better.
1457
1458- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1459 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1460 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1461
1462- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1463 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1464 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1465
1466 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1467
1468- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1469 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1470
1471 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1472
45d545f0 1473- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1474 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1475 overloading. This was repaired.
1476
1477- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1478 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1479 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1480 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1481 three chunks to fit.
1482
1483- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1484 were repaired.
1485
1486- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1487 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1488 leak).
1489
1490 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1491
1492- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1493 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1494
1495 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1496
1497- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1498
1499 Changes since 3.0.1
1500
1501- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1502 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1503 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1504
1505- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1506 name was not provided by the server.
1507
1508- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1509 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1510
1511- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1512 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1513
1514- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1515 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1516
1517- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1518
1519- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1520
1521- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1522 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1523 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1524 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1525 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1526
1527- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1528 the configuration be globally scoped.
1529
1530- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1531 Farkas.
1532
1533- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1534 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1535
1536- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1537 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1538
1539- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1540 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1541
1542- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1543 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1544 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1545 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1546
1547- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1548 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1549 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1550 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1551
1552- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1553 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1554 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1555
1556- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1557
1558- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1559 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1560 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1561
1562- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1563 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1564 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1565 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1566 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1567
1568- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1569 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1570
1571- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1572 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1573
1574- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1575 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1576 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1577 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1578
1579- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1580 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1581
1582- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1583 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1584 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1585
1586- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1587 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1588 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1589 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1590 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1591 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1592
1593- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1594 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1595 Infoblox.
1596
1597- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1598
1599- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1600 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1601 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1602 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1603 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1604 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1605 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1606
1607- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1608 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1609 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1610
1611- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1612 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1613 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1614
1615- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1616
1617 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1618
1619- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1620 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1621 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1622 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1623 systems either.
1624
1625- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1626
1627- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1628 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1629 is false.
1630
1631- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1632 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1633
1634- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1635
1636 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1637
1638! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1639 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1640 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1641 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1642 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1643 both finding and solving the problem.
1644
1645! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1647 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1648 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1649 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1650 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1651 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1652 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1653 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1654 published version of ISC DHCP.
1655
1656- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1657
1658- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1659
1660 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1661
1662- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1663 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1664 Richard Hirst.
1665
1666- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1667 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1668 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1669
1670- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1671
1672- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1673 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1674 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1675 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1676
1677- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1678 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1679
1680- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1681 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1682
1683- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1684
1685 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1686
1687- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1688 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1689
1690- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1691 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1692 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1693
1694- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1695 by name was fixed.
1696
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1698 longer result in error.
1699
1700- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1701
1702- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1703 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1704 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1705
1706- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1707 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1708
1709- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1710 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1711 Blapp.
1712
1713- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1714 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1715 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1716 Martin Blapp.
1717
1718- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1719 expiry times in failover configurations.
1720
1721- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1722 Steve G.
1723
1724- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1725 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1726
1727- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1728 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1729 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1730 now "unknown-144".
1731
1732- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1733 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1734
1735 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1736
1737- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1738
1739- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1740 not be bash.
1741
1742- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1743
1744- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1745 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1746 that errored before will now work properly.
1747
1748- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1749 names was repaired.
1750
1751- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1752 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1753 configuration file.
1754
1755- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1756 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1757
1758- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1759 error rather than a null dereference.
1760
1761 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1762
1763- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1764
1765- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1766
1767- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1768 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1769
1770- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1771
1772- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1773
1774- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1775 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1776 self-corrupting lease databases.
1777
1778- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1779
1780- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1781 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1782
1783- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1784
1785- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1786
1787- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1788 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1789 Ling Gou.
1790
1791- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1792 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1793
1794- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1795 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1796 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1797
1798- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1799 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1800
1801 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1802
1803- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1804 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1805
1806- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1807
1808- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1809 a memory leak.
1810
1811- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1812 script.
1813
1814- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1815
1816- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1817
1818- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1819
1820- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1821
1822- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1823
1824- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1825
1826- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1827
1828- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1829
1830- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1831
1832- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1833
1834- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1835
1836- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1837
1838 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1839
1840- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1841 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1842 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1843
1844 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1845
1846- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1847 to be renewed.
1848
1849- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1850 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1851
1852- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1853 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1854
1855- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1856 that two permit lists matched.
1857
1858- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1859 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1860
1861- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1862
1863- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1864 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1865
1866- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1867
1868- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1869
1870- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1871 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1872 going to update its A record.
1873
1874- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1875 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1876 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1877 DNS server.
1878
1879- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1880
1881- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1882
1883- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1884 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1885 NetBSD project).
1886
1887- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1888 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1889
1890- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1891 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1892
1893- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1894
1895- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1896
1897- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1898 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1899 failover protocol standard.
1900
1901- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1902 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1903 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1904
1905- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1906 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1907 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1908 do so.
1909
1910- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1911
1912 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1913
1914- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1915
1916- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1917 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1918
1919- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1920 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1921
1922- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1923 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1924 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1925
1926- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1927 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1928 network, merge the two pools.
1929
1930- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1931 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1932 fix this bug.
1933
1934 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1935
1936- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1937 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1938
1939- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1940 the same case.
1941
1942- Additional documentation.
1943
1944- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1945 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1946
1947 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1948
1949- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1950- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1951
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1953
1954- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1955 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1956 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1957 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1958 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1959
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1961
1962- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1963 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1964 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1965 wasn't the one that removed it.
1966
1967- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1968 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1969 were not configured.
1970
1971- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1972
1973- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1974 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1975 routing information.
1976
1977- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1978 request being sent.
1979
1980- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1981 done.
1982
1983- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1984 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1985 were pending.
1986
1987- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1988 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1989 problems with failover.
1990
1991- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1992 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1993 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
1994
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1996
1997- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
1998 smash in the subclass allocation code.
1999
2000- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2001 no object is open, it dumps core.
2002
2003- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2004
2005- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2006
2007- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2008
2009- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2010 a host object attribute with a null value.
2011
2012 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2013
2014- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2015
2016- Fix an obscure core dump.
2017
2018- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2019 when crucial information is left out.
2020
2021- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2022
2023- Documentation updates.
2024
2025 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2026
2027- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2028
2029- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2030 structure wasn't zeroed.
2031
2032- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2033 incorrectly.
2034
2035- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2036 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2037 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2038 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2039 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2040 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2041 restarted.
2042
2043 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2044
2045- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2046 in failover-enabled pools.
2047
2048- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2049 declarations).
2050
2051- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2052 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2053
2054- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2055 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2056
2057- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2058
2059- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2060 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2061
2062- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2063
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2065
2066- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2067
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2069
2070- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2071
2072- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2073
2074- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2075
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2077
2078- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2079 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2080 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2081
2082- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2083 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2084 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2085 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2086 string.
2087
2088- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2089
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2091
2092- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2093 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2094
2095- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2096 malformed packets.
2097
2098- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2099
2100- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2101 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2102 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2103
2104- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2105
2106- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2107
2108- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2109
2110- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2111 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2112
2113- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2114 tcp connections from being played back.
2115
2116- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2117 on exit.
2118
2119- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2120
2121- Add some configurability to the build system.
2122
2123- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2124
2125- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2126 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2127 hadn't been noticed until now.
2128
2129 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2130
2131- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2132 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2133
2134- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2135 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2136 conformant, but also didn't work).
2137
2138- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2139 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2140
2141- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2142 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2143
2144- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2145 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2146
2147- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2148 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2149
2150- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2151 doing failover.
2152
2153- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2154 running on alpha processors.
2155
2156- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2157 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2158
2159- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2160
2161- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2162
2163- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2164 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2165
2166- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2167
2168- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2169 actually named (key names are domain names).
2170
2171- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2172
2173- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2174 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2175
2176- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2177 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2178
2179- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2180 statements.
2181
2182- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2183 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2184
2185- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2186 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2187 operating.
2188
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2190
2191- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2192 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2193 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2194 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2195
2196- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2197 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2198
2199- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2200
2201
2202 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2203
2204- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2205 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2206
2207- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2208 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2209 to the chain.
2210
2211- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2212
2213- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2214
2215- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2216
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2219
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2222- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2223
2224 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2225
2226- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2227 DHCPDECLINE.
2228
2229- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2230
2231- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2232 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2233 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2234
2235- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2236
2237- Documentation fixes.
2238
2239- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2240 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2241
2242- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2243 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2244
2245- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2246
2247- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2248
2249- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2250 case-insensitive.
2251
2252- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2253
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2256 consistently.
2257
2258- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2259 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2260
2261- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2262
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2264
2265- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2266 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2267 result of duplicate leases.
2268
2269- Document OMAPI server objects.
2270
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2272
2273- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2274 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2275
2276- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2277 core dumps.
2278
2279- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2280 Friedrich.
2281
2282- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2283
2284 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2285
2286- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2287 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2290
2291- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2292 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2293
2294- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2295 trace file.
2296
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2299- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2300 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2301 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2302 e.g., Digital Unix.
2303
2304- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2305 when no error had occurred.
2306
2307- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2308 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2309 non-communicating state.
2310
2311- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2312
2313- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2314 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2315 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2316
2317- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2318 when the client lease expired.
2319
2320- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2321 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2322 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2323 in testing.
2324
2325- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2326 the command line, it would fail.
2327
2328- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2329 user impact).
2330
2331- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2332
2333- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2334 they're executable.
2335
2336 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2337
2338- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2339 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2340 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2341 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2342
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2343- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2344 Transmeta.
2345
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2346- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2347 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2348 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2349 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2350
2351- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2352 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2353
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2354 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2355
2356- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2357 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2358
2359- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2360
2361- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2362
2363- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2364
2365- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2366
2367- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2368
2369- Update some parts of the README file.
2370
2371- Support GCC on SCO.
2372
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2374
2375- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2376 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2377
2378- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2379 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2380 unbill the old class.
2381
2382- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2383 process the state transition immediately.
2384
2385- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2386 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2387
2388- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2389
2390- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2391
2392- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2393
2394- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2395
2396- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2397 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2398 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2399
2400- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2401 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2402
2403- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2404 lease file.
2405
2406- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2407
2408- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2411
2412- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2413 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2414
2415- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2416
adbef119 2417 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2418
2419- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2420
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2422
2423- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2424
2425- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2426 pl19.
2427
2428- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2429 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2430 past the regression test.
2431
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2433
2434- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2435 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2436
2437- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2438 DHCPREQUEST.
2439
2440- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2441
2442- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2443
2444- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2445
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2448- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2449 (Damien Neil)
2450
2451- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2452 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2453
2454- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2455 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2456 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2457
2458- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2459 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2460 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2461 message.
2462
2463- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2464 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2465 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2466
98311e4b 2467- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2468 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2469 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2470 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2471 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2472 this way will work.
2473
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2474- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2475
2476- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2477 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2478 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2479 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2480
2481 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2482
2483 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2484
2485- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2486 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2487 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2488
2489- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2490 Hermann Lauer.
2491
2492- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2493 messages.
2494
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2495- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2496 it contained quoted strings.
2497
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2498 ** there was no pl17 **
2499
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2502- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2503 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2504 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2505 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2506 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2507 tracking down memory leaks.
2508
2509- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2510 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2511 Solaris.
2512
2513- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2514 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2515 corruption and core dumps.
2516
2517- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2518 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2519
2520- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2521
2522- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2523 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2524
2525- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2526 name and version to standard output.
2527
2528- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2529
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2530- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2531 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2532
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2533- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2534
2535- Lots of documentation updates.
2536
2537- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2538 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2539
2540- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2541
2542- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2543 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2544
2545
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2547
2548- Some documentation tweaks.
2549
2550- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2551
2552- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2553
2554- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2555 agent options into them.
2556
2557- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2558
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2559- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2560 options.
2561
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2563
2564- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2565 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2566 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2567 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2568 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2569
2570- Fix up documentation.
2571
2572- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2573 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2574
2575- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2576
2577- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2578
2579- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2580 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2581 practical use otherwise.
2582
2583- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2584 for debugging.
2585
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2587
2588- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2589 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2590 dump on some systems.
2591
2592- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2593 option.
2594
2595- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2596 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2597
2598- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2599 that were not printing enough information.
2600
2601- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2602 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2603
2604- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2605 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2606 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2607 were answering.
2608
2609- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2610 the transition.
2611
2612
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2614
2615- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2616
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2617 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2618
2619- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2620 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2621 representation from working correctly.
2622
2623- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2624 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2625 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2626 could spin.
2627
2628- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2629 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2630
2631- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2632 interface name on the command line.
2633
2634- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2635 client state.
2636
2637- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2638 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2639 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2640 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2641 added by Ted Lemon.
2642
2643- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2644 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2645
2646- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2647 end option.
2648
2649- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2650 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2651 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2652
2653- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2654 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2655 face of a null hardware address on input.
2656
2657- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2658 specified unqualified.
2659
2660- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2661 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2662
2663- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2664 RFC.
2665
2666- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2667
2668- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2669
2670- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2671 it works.
2672
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2673 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2674
2675- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2676 to CVS.
2677
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2678 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2679
2680- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2681
2682- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2683 in patchlevel 9.
2684
2685- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2686 options at renewal time.
2687
2688- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2689 configuration language.
2690
2691- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2692
2693- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2694 done when no client hostname was received.
2695
2696- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2697
2698- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2699 the DHCP option space.
2700
2701- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2702
2703- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2704 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2705
2706- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2707 silently dropped.
2708
2709- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2710 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2711
2712- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2713 will be correctly updated.
2714
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2715 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2716
2717- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2718 bounds-checking.
2719
2720 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2721
2722- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2723
3922772a 2724 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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2726- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2727 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2728 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2729
2730- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2731 option.
2732
2733- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2734 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2735 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2736 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2737 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2738 meaningfully.
2739
2740- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2741 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2742 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2743
2744- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2745 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2746 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2747 this one down!
2748
2749- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2750 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2751 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2752 down and fixing this problem.
2753
2754 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2755
0f6045f8
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2756- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2757 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2758
2759- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2760 environment.
2761
2762- Fix suffix operator.
2763
2764- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2765
2766- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2767 connection code.
2768
2769- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2770
2771- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2772
2773- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2774 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2775
2776- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2777
2778- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2779
2780- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2781 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2782
2783- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2784 spawn with.
2785
2786- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2787 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2788
2789- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2790 for OMAPI.
2791
2792- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2793 can install in host declarations.
2794
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2795 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2796
2797- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2798 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2799 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2800 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2801 comments)!
2802
2803- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2804
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2805- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2806 request for help on this with patches!
2807
2808- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2809 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2810 lost, they never reconnect.
2811
2812- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2813 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2814
2815- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2816 dump.
2817
2818- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2819 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2820 catching this one.
2821
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2823
2824- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2825 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2826 lease renewal time.
2827
2828- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2829 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2830 declared without a key.
2831
2832- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2833
2834- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2835 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2836
2837- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2838 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2839 determine the maximum size of the response.
2840
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2841 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2842
359b023e
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2843- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2844 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2845
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2846- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2847 RENEWING client.
2848
2849- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2850
2851- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2852 using memcmp().
2853
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2854 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2855
2856- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2857 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2858 pointing this out.
2859
2860- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2861 exit.
2862
2863- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2864
2865- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2866 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.