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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.0b1
43
44- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM
45 Bug ticket 21092.
46
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47! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
48 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
49 with a simple denial of service attack. Bug ticket 21253.
50
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51- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
52
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53 Changes since 4.2.0a2
54
55- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
56 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
57
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58- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
59 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
60 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
61 from crashing. Bug ticket 21054.
62
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63- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
64 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
65 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
66 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
67 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
68 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
69 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
70 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
71 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
72
3c941d42 73 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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75- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
76 is no longer truncated to one octet.
77
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78- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
79
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80- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
81 reflect support for prefix delegation.
82
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83- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
84
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85- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
86 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
87 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
88 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
89 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
90 entry for each lease.
91
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92- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
93
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94 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
95
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96- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
97 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 98 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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100- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
101 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
102 Cantrell at Red Hat.
103
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104- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
105 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
106
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107- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
108
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109- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
110 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
111 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
112 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
113 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
114 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
115
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116- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
117 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
118 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
119 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
120 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
121 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
122 FQDN options by default).
123
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124- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
125 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
126 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
127 determined lease time) are omitted.
128
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129- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
130 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
131 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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132
133- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
134 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
135 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
136
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137 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
138
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139- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
140
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141- Validate the argument to the -p option.
142
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143- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
144 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
145 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
146 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
147 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
148
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149- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
150
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151- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
152 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
153 had been deleted from configuration.
154
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155- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
156 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 157 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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158 were being ignored.
159
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160- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
161
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162- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
163 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
164 Nordahl.
165
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166- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
167 dhcpv6 disabled.
168
8d7dca58 169- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 170 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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172- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
173 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
174
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175- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
176 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
177 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
178
179- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
180 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
181 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
182 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
183 fewer system calls.
184
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185- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
186 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
187 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
188 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
189 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
190 Christof Chen.
191
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192- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
193 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
194 and in normal state.
195
196- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
197 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
198
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199- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
200
201- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
202 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
203 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
204
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205- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
206 rather than restarting the listener.
207
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208- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
209 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
210
211- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
212 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
213 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
214
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215- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
216 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
217 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
218 timeouts).
219
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220- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
221 in failover state records.
222
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223! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
224 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
225 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 226 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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228- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
229 processing a DHCPINFORM.
230
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231- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
232 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
233 last option definition is used.
234
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235- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
236 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
237 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
238
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239- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
240 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
241
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242- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
243 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
244 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
245 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
246 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
247 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
248
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249- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
250 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
251 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
252 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
253
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254! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
255 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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257- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
258 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
259
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260- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
261 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
262 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
263 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
264 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 265 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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266 configuration.
267
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268- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
269 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
270
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271- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
272 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
273 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
274 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
275
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276- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
277 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
278 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
279 was always properly set.
280
adbef119 281 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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282
283- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
284 be recognized.
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286 Changes since 4.1.0a2
287
288- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
289 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
290 "abandoned".
291
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292- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
293
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294- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
295 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
296
297- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
298 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
299
300- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 301 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
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303- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
304
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305- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
306 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
307 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
308 in future releases.
309
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310- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
311 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
312
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313- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
314 'dhclient -6' support.
315
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316- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
317 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
318 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
319 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
320
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322
323- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
324
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325- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
326
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327- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
328 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
329 only the latter. Fixed.
330
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331- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
332
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333- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
334 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
335
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336- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
337
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338- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
339
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340- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
341 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
342 --enable-early-chroot.
343
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344- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
345 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
346
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347- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
348 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
349 parameter.
350
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351- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
352 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
353
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354- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
355 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
356
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357- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
358
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359- Merged IA_XX related structures.
360
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361- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
362
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363- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
364
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365- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
366 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
367 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
368
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369- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
370 support.
371
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372- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
373 repaired.
374
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375- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
376
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377- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
378
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379- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
380 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
381
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382- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
383 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
384
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385- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
386 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
387
388- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
389 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
390 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
391 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
392 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
393 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
394 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
395 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
396 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
397 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
398 shared-network.
399
400- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
401 configured option values.
402
403- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
404 support class statements.
405
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406- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
407 selection were repaired.
408
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409- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
410 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
411 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
412 by the OS.
413
414- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
415 address.
416
417- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
418 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
419
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420- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
421
422- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
423
424- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
425 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
426
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429- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
430
4cafb815 431- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 432 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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434- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
435 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
436 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
437
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438- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
439 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
440
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441- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
442
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443- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
444 reserved IDs avoided).
445
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446- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
447
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448- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
449 carries a rapid-commit option.
450
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451- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
452 an empty active lease.
453
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454- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
455
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456- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
457 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
458 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
459 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
460
461- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
462
463- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
464 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
465 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
466 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
467 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
468 Christof Chen.
469
470 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
471
472- DHCP now builds on AIX.
473
474- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
475 config file but -6 is not specified.
476
477- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
478
479- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
480 be more helpful.
481
482- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
483 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
484 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
485
486- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
487 was repaired.
488
489- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
490 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
491 been repaired.
492
493- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
494 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
495 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
496
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497- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
498 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
499
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500- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
501 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
502 IPv4 address.
503
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504- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
505 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
506 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
507 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
508 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
509
510- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
511 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
512 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
513
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514- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
515
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516- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
517
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518- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
519 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
520 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
521 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
522 unnecessary logging.
523
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524- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
525 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
526
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527- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
528 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
529 is incompatible is printed.
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531- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
532 a previously undefined option code.
533
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534- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
535 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
536
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537- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
538 than the year 2000.
539
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540- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
541
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542- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
543
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544- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
545
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546 Changes since 4.0.0b3
547
548- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
549 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
550 configuration.
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552- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
553 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
554
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555- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
556 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
557 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
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559- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
560 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
561 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
562 a requested address.
563
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564- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
565 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
566 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
567 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
568
569- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
570 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
571 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
572 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
573
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574- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
575 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
576 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
577
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578- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
579 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
580
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581- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
582
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583- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
584 codes through some conditions.
585
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586- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
587 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
588
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589- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
590 seemingly random values.
591
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592- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
593
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594- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
595 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
596 one ever has.
597
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598- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
599 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
600 to a REQUEST.
601
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602- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
603 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
604 level.
605
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606 Changes since 4.0.0b2
607
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608- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
609
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610- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
611 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
612 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
613 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
614 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
615
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616- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
617 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
618 new address.
619
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620 Changes since 4.0.0b1
621
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622- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
623 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
624 simultaneously on a single interface.
625
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626- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
627 of service under unusual server configurations
628
629- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
630
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631- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
632 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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634- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
635 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
636 on every pool rebalance run.
637
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638- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
639 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
640
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641- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
642 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
643
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646- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
647 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
648
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649- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
650 point out the problem.
651
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652- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
653 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
654 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
655
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656- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
657 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
658
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659- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
660 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
661 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
662
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663- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
664
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665- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
666 fixed by Marcus Goller.
667
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668- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
669 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
670 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
671 regardless of the existence of bindings.
672
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673- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
674
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675- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
676 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
677 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
678 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
679 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
680
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681- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
682
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683 Changes since 4.0.0a2
684
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685- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
686 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
687
763cba6b 688- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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690- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
691 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
692 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
693
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694- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
695
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696- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
697 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
698
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699- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
700 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
701 loaded from persistent storage.
702
45d545f0 703- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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704 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
705 necessary.
706
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707- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
708 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
709 rapid-commit option.
710
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711- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
712 non-128-bits in length were removed.
713
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714 Changes since 4.0.0a1
715
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716- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
717 and fix.
718
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719- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
720
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721- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
722
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723- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
724 for when loading configuration.
725
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726- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
727 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
728 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
729
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730- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
731 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
732 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
733 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
734
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735- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
736
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737- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
738 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
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740- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
741
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742- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
743
744- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
745 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
746
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747- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
748 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
749
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750- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
751
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752- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
753 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
754
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755 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
756
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757- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
758
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759- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
760 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
761
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762- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
763
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764- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
765 initialized.
766
767- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
768
769- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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770 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
771
772- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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774- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
775
776- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
777 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
778
779- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
780
8ea19a71 781- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 782 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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783
784- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
785 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
786
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787- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
788
789- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
790
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791- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
792
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793 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
794
795- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
796 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
797 no support currently for both.
798
799- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
800 IAADDR option.
801
802- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
803 options.
804
805- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
806
807- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
808 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
809
810- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
811 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
812 specifying type 1 or type 2).
813
814- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
815 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
816
817- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
818 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
819 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
820 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
821 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
822 differently, they both use the same code here).
823
824- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
825 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
826 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
827
828- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
829
830- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
831 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
832 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
833 it should not intercept.
834
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835 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
836
837- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
838 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
839 between primary and secondary.
840
841- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
842 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
843 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
844
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845- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
846
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847- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
848 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
849 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
850 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
851 or REQUEST messages.
852
853- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
854 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
855
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856- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
857
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858 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
859
860- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
861 failover protected subnets was removed.
862
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863 Changes since 3.1.0b2
864
865- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
866 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
867 odd number of leases).
868
869- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
870 rebalance run, and one after.
871
872- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
873 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
874 processing these messages.
875
fe5b0fdd 876 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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878- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
879 objects.
880
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881- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
882 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
883 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
884 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
885 at Allianz.
886
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887- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
888 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
889
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890- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
891 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
892
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893- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
894 caused the server to abort.
895
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896- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
897 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
898 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
899
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900- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
901 by empty spaces would not get included.
902
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903- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
904 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
905
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906- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
907 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
908
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909- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
910 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
911
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912- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
913 on the parameter request list.
914
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915 Changes since 3.1.0a3
916
917- Some spelling fixes.
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919 Changes since 3.1.0a2
920
921- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
922 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
923
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924- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
925 domain-search option syntax.
926
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927 Changes since 3.1.0a1
928
929- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
930 hash table was repaired.
931
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932- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
933 entering normal state.
934
935- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
936 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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937 'xid mismatch' log messages.
938
939- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
940 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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942- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
943 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
944 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
945 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
946
45d545f0 947- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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948 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
949 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
950 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
951 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
952 to their needs.
953
954- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
955 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
956 run will attempt balance.
957
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958- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
959
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960 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
961
962- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
963 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
964 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
965 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
966
98bd7ca0 967- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 968 was introduced.
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969
970- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
971 via OMAPI.
972
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973- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
974 the protocol draft.
975
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976- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
977 one does not already exist on the system.
978
b43c87ad 979- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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981- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
982 matches RFC 3074.
983
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984- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
985 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 986 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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988- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
989 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 990 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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992- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
993 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
994 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
995 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
996
997- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
998 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
999 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1000 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1001
f7fdb216 1002- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1003 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1004 DHCPv6 support.
1005
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1006- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1007 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1008 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1009
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1010- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1011 have been incorporated.
1012
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1013- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1014 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1015 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1016 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1017 that belong to the peer in need.
1018
1019- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1020 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1021
1022- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1023 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1024 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1025
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1026- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1027 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1028
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1029- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1030 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1031 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1032 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1033 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1034
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1035- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1036 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1037 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1038 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1039
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1040- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1041 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1042 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1043 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1044 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1045 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1046 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1047 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1048 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1049
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1050- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1051 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1052
41e45067 1053- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1054 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1055 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1056 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1057
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1058- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1059 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1060 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1061 hardware and funding the development.
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1063- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1064 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1065 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1066 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1067 via Robin Breathe.
1068
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1069- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1070 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1071 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1072 from Christof Chen.
1073
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1074- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1075 formally supported.
1076
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1077 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1078
1079- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1080 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1081
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1082 Changes since 3.0.5
1083
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1084- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1085 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1086 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1087 they actually received.
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1089- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1090
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1091- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1092 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1093 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1094 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1096- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1097
d69fb6a8 1098- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1099 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1101- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1102 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1103 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1104 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1105 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1106 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1107 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1108 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1109
1110- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1111 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1112 'file' field.
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1114- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1115 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1116
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1117- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1118 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1119 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1120
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1121- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1122 from Chris Wagner.
1123
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1124- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1125 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1126 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1127
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1128- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1129 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1130 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1131 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1132 was set.
1133
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1134- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1135 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1136
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1137- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1138 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1139 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1140 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1141 active ones.
1142
02428754 1143 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1144
901306d5 1145- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1146 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1147 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1148 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1149 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1150
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1151- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1152 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1153
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1154 Changes since 3.0.4
1155
1156- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1157 scopes are actually global has been added.
1158
1159- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1160 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1161 known to be damaging.
1162
1163- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1164 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1165 balancing).
1166
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1167- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1168 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1169 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1170
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1171- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1172 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1173 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1174
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1175- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1176 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1177 more clear now.
1178
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1179- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1180 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1181 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1182 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1183 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1184 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1185
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1186- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1187 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1188
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1189- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1190 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1191 made possible.
1192
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1193- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1194 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1195 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1196
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1197- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1198 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1199
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1200- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1201 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1202 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1203
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1204- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1205 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1206 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1207 value with the later configured value).
1208
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1209- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1210 have been named and documented.
1211
1212- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1213 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1214 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1215 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1216 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1217 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1218 write new output.
1219
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1220 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1221
1222- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1223 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1224
1225 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1226
1227- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1228 mailing list.
1229
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1230 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1231
45d545f0 1232- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1233 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1234
1235- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1236 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1237
1238- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1239 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1240 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1241 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1242
1243- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1244 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1245 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1246 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1247 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1248 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1249 transition (properly).
1250
1251- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1252
1253 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1254
1255- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1256 STDIN after reading one line.
1257
1258- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1259 descriptor it opened twice.
1260
1261- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1262 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1263 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1264
1265 Changes since 3.0.3
1266
1267- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1268 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1269 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1270
1271- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1272 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1273 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1274
1275- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1276 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1277 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1278 leases to allocate.
1279
1280- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1281 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1282 than the entire block of them.
1283
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1284! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1285 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1286 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1287 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1288 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1289 to a patch from infamous42md.
1290
1291! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1292 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1293 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1294 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1295 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1296 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1297
1298- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1299 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1300 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1301
1302- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1303 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1304
1305- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1306 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1307 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1308 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1309 transitional states.
1310
1311- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1312 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1313 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1314
1315- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1316 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1317 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1318
1319- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1320 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1321
1322- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1323 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1324
1325- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1326 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1327 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1328
1329- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1330 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1331
1332- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1333 repaired.
1334
1335- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1336 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1337 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1338 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1339
1340- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1341 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1342 data.
1343
1344- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1345 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1346 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1347 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1348 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1349
1350- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1351 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1352 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1353 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1354 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1355
1356- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1357 has been repaired.
1358
1359- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1360 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1361 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1362 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1363 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1364
1365- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1366 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1367
45d545f0 1368- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1369 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1370 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1371 move to 3.[01].x.
1372
1373- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1374 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1375
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1376 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1377
1378- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1379 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1380
1381- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1382 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1383 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1384 workaround.
1385
1386 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1387
1388- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1389 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1390
1391 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1392
1393- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1394 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1395 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1396
1397- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1398 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1399 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1400
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1401 Changes since 3.0.2
1402
1403- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1404 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1405 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1406
1407- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1408 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1409 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1410 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1411 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1412
1413- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1414 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1415 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1416
1417- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1418 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1419 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1420
1421- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1422 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1423 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1424 Peter Poeml.
1425
1426- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1427 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1428
1429- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1430 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1431 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1432 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1433 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1434 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1435
1436- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1437 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1438 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1439 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1440
1441- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1442 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1443 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1444 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1445
1446- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1447 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1448
1449- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1450 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1451 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1452
1453- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1454 7 bytes, and failover.
1455
1456- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1457 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1458 at Red Hat.
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1459
1460- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1461 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1462 should work better.
1463
1464- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1465 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1466 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1467
1468- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1469 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1470 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1471
1472 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1473
1474- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1475 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1476
1477 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1478
45d545f0 1479- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1480 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1481 overloading. This was repaired.
1482
1483- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1484 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1485 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1486 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1487 three chunks to fit.
1488
1489- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1490 were repaired.
1491
1492- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1493 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1494 leak).
1495
1496 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1497
1498- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1499 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1500
1501 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1502
1503- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1504
1505 Changes since 3.0.1
1506
1507- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1508 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1509 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1510
1511- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1512 name was not provided by the server.
1513
1514- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1515 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1516
1517- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1518 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1519
1520- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1521 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1522
1523- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1524
1525- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1526
1527- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1528 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1529 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1530 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1531 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1532
1533- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1534 the configuration be globally scoped.
1535
1536- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1537 Farkas.
1538
1539- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1540 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1541
1542- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1543 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1544
1545- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1546 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1547
1548- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1549 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1550 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1551 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1552
1553- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1554 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1555 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1556 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1557
1558- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1559 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1560 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1561
1562- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1563
1564- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1565 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1566 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1567
1568- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1569 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1570 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1571 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1572 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1573
1574- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1575 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1576
1577- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1578 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1579
1580- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1581 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1582 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1583 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1584
1585- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1586 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1587
1588- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1589 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1590 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1591
1592- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1593 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1594 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1595 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1596 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1597 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1598
1599- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1600 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1601 Infoblox.
1602
1603- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1604
1605- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1606 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1607 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1608 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1609 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1610 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1611 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1612
1613- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1614 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1615 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1616
1617- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1618 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1619 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1620
1621- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1622
1623 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1624
1625- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1626 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1627 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1628 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1629 systems either.
1630
1631- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1632
1633- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1634 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1635 is false.
1636
1637- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1638 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1639
1640- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1641
1642 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1643
1644! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1645 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1646 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1647 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1648 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1649 both finding and solving the problem.
1650
1651! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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1653 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1654 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1655 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1656 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1657 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1658 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1659 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1660 published version of ISC DHCP.
1661
1662- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1663
1664- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1665
1666 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1667
1668- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1669 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1670 Richard Hirst.
1671
1672- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1673 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1674 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1675
1676- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1677
1678- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1679 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1680 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1681 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1682
1683- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1684 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1685
1686- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1687 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1688
1689- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1690
1691 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1692
1693- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1694 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1695
1696- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1697 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1698 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1699
1700- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1701 by name was fixed.
1702
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1704 longer result in error.
1705
1706- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1707
1708- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1709 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1710 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1711
1712- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1713 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1714
1715- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1716 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1717 Blapp.
1718
1719- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1720 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1721 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1722 Martin Blapp.
1723
1724- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1725 expiry times in failover configurations.
1726
1727- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1728 Steve G.
1729
1730- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1731 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1732
1733- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1734 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1735 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1736 now "unknown-144".
1737
1738- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1739 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1740
1741 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1742
1743- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1744
1745- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1746 not be bash.
1747
1748- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1749
1750- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1751 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1752 that errored before will now work properly.
1753
1754- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1755 names was repaired.
1756
1757- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1758 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1759 configuration file.
1760
1761- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1762 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1763
1764- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1765 error rather than a null dereference.
1766
1767 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1768
1769- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1770
1771- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1772
1773- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1774 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1775
1776- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1777
1778- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1779
1780- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1781 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1782 self-corrupting lease databases.
1783
1784- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1785
1786- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1787 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
1788
1789- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
1790
1791- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
1792
1793- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
1794 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
1795 Ling Gou.
1796
1797- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
1798 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1799
1800- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
1801 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
1802 Ted Lemon for the patch.
1803
1804- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
1805 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
1806
1807 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
1808
1809- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
1810 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
1811
1812- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
1813
1814- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
1815 a memory leak.
1816
1817- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
1818 script.
1819
1820- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
1821
1822- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
1823
1824- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
1825
1826- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
1827
1828- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
1829
1830- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
1831
1832- Increment the hop count when relaying.
1833
1834- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
1835
1836- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
1837
1838- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
1839
1840- Change the type of rbuf_max.
1841
1842- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
1843
1844 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
1845
1846- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
1847 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
1848 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
1849
1850 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
1851
1852- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
1853 to be renewed.
1854
1855- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
1856 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
1857
1858- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
1859 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
1860
1861- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
1862 that two permit lists matched.
1863
1864- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
1865 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
1866
1867- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
1868
1869- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
1870 requested it, contrary to the standard.
1871
1872- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
1873
1874- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
1875
1876- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
1877 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
1878 going to update its A record.
1879
1880- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
1881 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
1882 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
1883 DNS server.
1884
1885- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
1886
1887- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
1888
1889- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
1890 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
1891 NetBSD project).
1892
1893- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
1894 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
1895
1896- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
1897 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
1898
1899- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
1900
1901- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
1902
1903- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
1904 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
1905 failover protocol standard.
1906
1907- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
1908 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
1909 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
1910
1911- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
1912 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
1913 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
1914 do so.
1915
1916- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
1917
1918 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
1919
1920- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
1921
1922- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
1923 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
1924
1925- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
1926 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
1927
1928- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
1929 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
1930 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
1931
1932- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
1933 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
1934 network, merge the two pools.
1935
1936- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
1937 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
1938 fix this bug.
1939
1940 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
1941
1942- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
1943 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
1944
1945- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
1946 the same case.
1947
1948- Additional documentation.
1949
1950- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
1951 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
1952
1953 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
1954
1955- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
1956- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
1957
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1959
1960- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
1961 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
1962 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
1963 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
1964 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
1965
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1967
1968- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
1969 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
1970 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
1971 wasn't the one that removed it.
1972
1973- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
1974 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
1975 were not configured.
1976
1977- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
1978
1979- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
1980 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
1981 routing information.
1982
1983- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
1984 request being sent.
1985
1986- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
1987 done.
1988
1989- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
1990 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
1991 were pending.
1992
1993- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
1994 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
1995 problems with failover.
1996
1997- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
1998 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
1999 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2000
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2002
2003- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2004 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2005
2006- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2007 no object is open, it dumps core.
2008
2009- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2010
2011- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2012
2013- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2014
2015- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2016 a host object attribute with a null value.
2017
2018 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2019
2020- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2021
2022- Fix an obscure core dump.
2023
2024- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2025 when crucial information is left out.
2026
2027- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2028
2029- Documentation updates.
2030
2031 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2032
2033- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2034
2035- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2036 structure wasn't zeroed.
2037
2038- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2039 incorrectly.
2040
2041- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2042 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2043 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2044 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2045 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2046 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2047 restarted.
2048
2049 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2050
2051- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2052 in failover-enabled pools.
2053
2054- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2055 declarations).
2056
2057- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2058 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2059
2060- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2061 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2062
2063- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2064
2065- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2066 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2067
2068- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2069
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2071
2072- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2073
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2075
2076- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2077
2078- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2079
2080- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2081
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2083
2084- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2085 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2086 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2087
2088- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2089 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2090 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2091 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2092 string.
2093
2094- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2095
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2097
2098- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2099 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2100
2101- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2102 malformed packets.
2103
2104- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2105
2106- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2107 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2108 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2109
2110- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2111
2112- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2113
2114- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2115
2116- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2117 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2118
2119- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2120 tcp connections from being played back.
2121
2122- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2123 on exit.
2124
2125- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2126
2127- Add some configurability to the build system.
2128
2129- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2130
2131- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2132 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2133 hadn't been noticed until now.
2134
2135 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2136
2137- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2138 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2139
2140- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2141 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2142 conformant, but also didn't work).
2143
2144- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2145 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2146
2147- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2148 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2149
2150- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2151 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2152
2153- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2154 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2155
2156- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2157 doing failover.
2158
2159- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2160 running on alpha processors.
2161
2162- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2163 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2164
2165- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2166
2167- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2168
2169- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2170 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2171
2172- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2173
2174- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2175 actually named (key names are domain names).
2176
2177- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2178
2179- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2180 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2181
2182- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2183 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2184
2185- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2186 statements.
2187
2188- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2189 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2190
2191- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2192 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2193 operating.
2194
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2196
2197- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2198 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2199 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2200 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2201
2202- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2203 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2204
2205- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2206
2207
2208 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2209
2210- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2211 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2212
2213- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2214 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2215 to the chain.
2216
2217- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2218
2219- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2220
2221- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2222
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2225
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2228- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2229
2230 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2231
2232- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2233 DHCPDECLINE.
2234
2235- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2236
2237- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2238 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2239 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2240
2241- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2242
2243- Documentation fixes.
2244
2245- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2246 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2247
2248- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2249 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2250
2251- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2252
2253- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2254
2255- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2256 case-insensitive.
2257
2258- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2259
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2262 consistently.
2263
2264- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2265 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2266
2267- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2268
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2270
2271- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2272 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2273 result of duplicate leases.
2274
2275- Document OMAPI server objects.
2276
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2278
2279- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2280 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2281
2282- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2283 core dumps.
2284
2285- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2286 Friedrich.
2287
2288- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2289
2290 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2291
2292- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2293 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2296
2297- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2298 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2299
2300- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2301 trace file.
2302
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2306 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2307 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2308 e.g., Digital Unix.
2309
2310- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2311 when no error had occurred.
2312
2313- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2314 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2315 non-communicating state.
2316
2317- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2318
2319- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2320 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2321 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2322
2323- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2324 when the client lease expired.
2325
2326- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2327 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2328 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2329 in testing.
2330
2331- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2332 the command line, it would fail.
2333
2334- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2335 user impact).
2336
2337- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2338
2339- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2340 they're executable.
2341
2342 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2343
2344- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2345 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2346 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2347 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2348
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2349- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2350 Transmeta.
2351
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2352- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2353 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2354 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2355 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2356
2357- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2358 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2359
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2360 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2361
2362- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2363 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2364
2365- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2366
2367- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2368
2369- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2370
2371- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2372
2373- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2374
2375- Update some parts of the README file.
2376
2377- Support GCC on SCO.
2378
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2380
2381- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2382 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2383
2384- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2385 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2386 unbill the old class.
2387
2388- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2389 process the state transition immediately.
2390
2391- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2392 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2393
2394- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2395
2396- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2397
2398- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2399
2400- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2401
2402- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2403 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2404 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2405
2406- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2407 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2408
2409- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2410 lease file.
2411
2412- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2413
2414- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2417
2418- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2419 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2420
2421- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2422
adbef119 2423 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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2424
2425- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2426
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2428
2429- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2430
2431- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2432 pl19.
2433
2434- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2435 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2436 past the regression test.
2437
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2439
2440- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2441 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2442
2443- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2444 DHCPREQUEST.
2445
2446- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2447
2448- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2449
2450- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2451
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2454- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2455 (Damien Neil)
2456
2457- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2458 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2459
2460- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2461 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2462 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2463
2464- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2465 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2466 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2467 message.
2468
2469- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2470 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2471 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2472
98311e4b 2473- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2474 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2475 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2476 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2477 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2478 this way will work.
2479
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2480- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2481
2482- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2483 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2484 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2485 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2486
2487 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2488
2489 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2490
2491- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2492 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2493 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2494
2495- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2496 Hermann Lauer.
2497
2498- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2499 messages.
2500
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2501- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2502 it contained quoted strings.
2503
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2504 ** there was no pl17 **
2505
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2508- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2509 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2510 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2511 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2512 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2513 tracking down memory leaks.
2514
2515- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2516 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2517 Solaris.
2518
2519- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2520 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2521 corruption and core dumps.
2522
2523- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2524 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2525
2526- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2527
2528- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2529 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2530
2531- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2532 name and version to standard output.
2533
2534- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2535
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2536- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2537 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2538
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2539- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2540
2541- Lots of documentation updates.
2542
2543- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2544 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2545
2546- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2547
2548- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2549 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2550
2551
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2553
2554- Some documentation tweaks.
2555
2556- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2557
2558- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2559
2560- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2561 agent options into them.
2562
2563- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2564
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2565- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2566 options.
2567
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2569
2570- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2571 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2572 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2573 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2574 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2575
2576- Fix up documentation.
2577
2578- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2579 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2580
2581- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2582
2583- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2584
2585- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2586 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2587 practical use otherwise.
2588
2589- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2590 for debugging.
2591
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2593
2594- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2595 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2596 dump on some systems.
2597
2598- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2599 option.
2600
2601- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2602 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2603
2604- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2605 that were not printing enough information.
2606
2607- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2608 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2609
2610- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2611 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2612 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2613 were answering.
2614
2615- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2616 the transition.
2617
2618
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2620
2621- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2622
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2623 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2624
2625- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2626 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2627 representation from working correctly.
2628
2629- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2630 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2631 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2632 could spin.
2633
2634- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2635 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2636
2637- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2638 interface name on the command line.
2639
2640- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2641 client state.
2642
2643- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2644 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2645 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2646 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2647 added by Ted Lemon.
2648
2649- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2650 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2651
2652- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2653 end option.
2654
2655- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2656 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2657 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2658
2659- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2660 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2661 face of a null hardware address on input.
2662
2663- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2664 specified unqualified.
2665
2666- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2667 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2668
2669- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2670 RFC.
2671
2672- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2673
2674- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2675
2676- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2677 it works.
2678
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2679 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2680
2681- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2682 to CVS.
2683
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2684 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2685
2686- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2687
2688- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2689 in patchlevel 9.
2690
2691- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2692 options at renewal time.
2693
2694- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2695 configuration language.
2696
2697- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2698
2699- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2700 done when no client hostname was received.
2701
2702- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2703
2704- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2705 the DHCP option space.
2706
2707- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2708
2709- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2710 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2711
2712- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2713 silently dropped.
2714
2715- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2716 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2717
2718- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2719 will be correctly updated.
2720
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2721 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2722
2723- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2724 bounds-checking.
2725
2726 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2727
2728- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2729
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2732- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2733 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2734 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2735
2736- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2737 option.
2738
2739- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2740 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2741 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2742 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2743 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2744 meaningfully.
2745
2746- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2747 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2748 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2749
2750- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2751 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2752 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2753 this one down!
2754
2755- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2756 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2757 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2758 down and fixing this problem.
2759
2760 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2761
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2762- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2763 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2764
2765- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2766 environment.
2767
2768- Fix suffix operator.
2769
2770- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2771
2772- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2773 connection code.
2774
2775- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2776
2777- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2778
2779- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2780 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2781
2782- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2783
2784- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2785
2786- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2787 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2788
2789- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
2790 spawn with.
2791
2792- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
2793 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
2794
2795- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
2796 for OMAPI.
2797
2798- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
2799 can install in host declarations.
2800
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2801 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
2802
2803- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
2804 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
2805 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
2806 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
2807 comments)!
2808
2809- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
2810
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2811- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
2812 request for help on this with patches!
2813
2814- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
2815 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
2816 lost, they never reconnect.
2817
2818- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
2819 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
2820
2821- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
2822 dump.
2823
2824- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
2825 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
2826 catching this one.
2827
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2828 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
2829
2830- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 2831 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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2832 lease renewal time.
2833
2834- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
2835 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
2836 declared without a key.
2837
2838- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
2839
2840- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
2841 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
2842
2843- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
2844 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
2845 determine the maximum size of the response.
2846
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2847 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
2848
359b023e
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2849- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
2850 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
2851
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2852- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
2853 RENEWING client.
2854
2855- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
2856
2857- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
2858 using memcmp().
2859
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2860 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
2861
2862- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
2863 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
2864 pointing this out.
2865
2866- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
2867 exit.
2868
2869- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
2870
2871- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
2872 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.