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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 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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77
78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
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115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
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120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
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123- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
124 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
125 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
126
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127 Changes since 4.2.0
128
129- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
130 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
131 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
132 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
133 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
134 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
135
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136- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
137 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
138 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
139 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
140 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
141 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
142
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143- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
144 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
145 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
146
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147- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
148 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
149 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
150 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
151
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152- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
153 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
154
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155- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
156 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
157 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
158
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159- Minor code fixes
160 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
161 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
162 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
163 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
164 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
165 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
166 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
167 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
168 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
169 Thanks to Martin Pala.
170 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
171 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
172
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173- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
174
175- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
176 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
177
178- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
179 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
180
181- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
182 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
183
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184- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
185 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
186 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
187
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188- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
189 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
190
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191- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
192 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
193 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
194
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195- Fixes to lease input and output.
196 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
197 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
198 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
199 characters.
200 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
201 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
202
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203- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
204 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
205 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
206 at Red Hat.
207 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
208 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
209 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
210 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
211
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212- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
213 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
214 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
215 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
216
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217! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
218 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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219 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
220 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
221
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222- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
223 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
224 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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226- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
227 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
228 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
229 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
230 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
231
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232- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
233 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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234 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
235 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
236 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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238! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
239 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
240 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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241 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
242 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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243 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
244
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245- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
246 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
247 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
248
249- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
250 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
251 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
252
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253- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
254 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
255 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
256
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257- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
258 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
259 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
260 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
261 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
262
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263- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
264 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
265 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
266 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
267
c8b189f1 268! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 269 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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270 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
271 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 272 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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273 and reset it's timeout value.
274 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
275
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276- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
277 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
278 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
279 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
280
281 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
282 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
283 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
284
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285- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
286 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
287 when removing the ddns information.
288 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
289
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290- Some fixes for LDAP
291 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
292 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
293 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
294
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295- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
296 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
297
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298 Changes since 4.2.0b2
299
300- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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302 Changes since 4.2.0b1
303
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304- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
305 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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307! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
308 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 309 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 310 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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312- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
313
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314- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
315 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
316 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
317 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
318 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
319
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320- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
321 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
322 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
323 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
324 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
325
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326- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
327
600ee619 328- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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329 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
330
331- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
332 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
333 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
334 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
335 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
336 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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338- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
339 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
340
341 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
342 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
343
344 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
345 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
346
347 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
348 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
349
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350 Changes since 4.2.0a2
351
352- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
353 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
354
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355- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
356 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
357 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 358 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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360- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
361 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
362 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
363 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
364 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
365 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
366 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
367 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
368 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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3c941d42 370 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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371
372- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
373 is no longer truncated to one octet.
374
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375- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
376
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377- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
378 reflect support for prefix delegation.
379
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380- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
381
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382- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
383 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
384 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
385 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
386 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
387 entry for each lease.
388
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389- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
390
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391 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
392
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393- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
394 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 395 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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397- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
398 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
399 Cantrell at Red Hat.
400
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401- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
402 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
403
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404- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
405
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406- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
407 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
408 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
409 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
410 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
411 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
412
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413- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
414 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
415 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
416 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
417 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
418 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
419 FQDN options by default).
420
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421- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
422 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
423 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
424 determined lease time) are omitted.
425
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427 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
428 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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430- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
431 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
432 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
433
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434 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
435
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436- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
437
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438- Validate the argument to the -p option.
439
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440- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
441 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
442 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
443 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
444 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
445
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446- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
447
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448- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
449 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
450 had been deleted from configuration.
451
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452- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
453 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 454 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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455 were being ignored.
456
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457- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
458
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459- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
460 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
461 Nordahl.
462
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463- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
464 dhcpv6 disabled.
465
8d7dca58 466- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 467 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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469- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
470 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
471
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472- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
473 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
474 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
475
476- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
477 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
478 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
479 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
480 fewer system calls.
481
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482- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
483 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
484 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
485 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
486 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
487 Christof Chen.
488
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489- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
490 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
491 and in normal state.
492
493- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
494 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
495
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496- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
497
498- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
499 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
500 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
501
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502- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
503 rather than restarting the listener.
504
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505- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
506 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
507
508- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
509 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
510 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
511
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512- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
513 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
514 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
515 timeouts).
516
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517- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
518 in failover state records.
519
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520! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
521 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
522 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 523 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 524
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525- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
526 processing a DHCPINFORM.
527
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528- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
529 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
530 last option definition is used.
531
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532- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
533 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
534 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
535
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536- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
537 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
538
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539- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
540 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
541 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
542 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
543 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
544 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
545
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546- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
547 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
548 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
549 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
550
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551! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
552 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 553
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554- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
555 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
556
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557- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
558 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
559 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
560 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
561 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 562 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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563 configuration.
564
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565- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
566 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
567
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568- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
569 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
570 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
571 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
572
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573- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
574 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
575 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
576 was always properly set.
577
adbef119 578 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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579
580- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
581 be recognized.
61d75ea2 582
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583 Changes since 4.1.0a2
584
585- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
586 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
587 "abandoned".
588
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589- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
590
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591- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
592 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
593
594- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
595 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
596
597- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 598 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 599
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600- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
601
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602- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
603 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
604 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
605 in future releases.
606
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607- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
608 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
609
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610- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
611 'dhclient -6' support.
612
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613- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
614 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
615 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
616 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
617
7d6180be 618 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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619
620- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
621
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622- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
623
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624- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
625 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
626 only the latter. Fixed.
627
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628- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
629
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630- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
631 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
632
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633- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
634
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635- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
636
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637- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
638 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
639 --enable-early-chroot.
640
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641- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
642 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
643
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644- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
645 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
646 parameter.
647
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648- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
649 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
650
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651- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
652 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
653
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654- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
655
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656- Merged IA_XX related structures.
657
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658- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
659
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660- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
661
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662- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
663 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
664 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
665
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666- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
667 support.
668
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669- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
670 repaired.
671
80097764
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672- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
673
ffbaa880
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674- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
675
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676- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
677 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
678
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679- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
680 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
681
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682- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
683 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
684
685- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
686 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
687 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
688 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
689 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
690 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
691 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
692 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
693 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
694 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
695 shared-network.
696
697- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
698 configured option values.
699
700- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
701 support class statements.
702
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703- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
704 selection were repaired.
705
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706- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
707 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
708 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
709 by the OS.
710
711- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
712 address.
713
714- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
715 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
716
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717- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
718
719- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
720
721- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
722 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
723
01a54c17 724 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 725
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726- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
727
4cafb815 728- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 729 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
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731- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
732 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
733 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
734
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735- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
736 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
737
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738- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
739
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740- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
741 reserved IDs avoided).
742
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743- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
744
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745- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
746 carries a rapid-commit option.
747
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748- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
749 an empty active lease.
750
be62cf06
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751- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
752
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753- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
754 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
755 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
756 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
757
758- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
759
760- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
761 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
762 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
763 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
764 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
765 Christof Chen.
766
767 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
768
769- DHCP now builds on AIX.
770
771- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
772 config file but -6 is not specified.
773
774- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
775
776- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
777 be more helpful.
778
779- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
780 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
781 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
782
783- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
784 was repaired.
785
786- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
787 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
788 been repaired.
789
790- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
791 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
792 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
793
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794- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
795 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
796
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797- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
798 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
799 IPv4 address.
800
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801- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
802 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
803 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
804 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
805 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
806
807- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
808 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
809 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
810
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811- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
812
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813- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
814
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815- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
816 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
817 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
818 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
819 unnecessary logging.
820
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821- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
822 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
823
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824- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
825 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
826 is incompatible is printed.
827
828- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
829 a previously undefined option code.
830
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831- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
832 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
833
7e9f7a1b
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834- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
835 than the year 2000.
836
e2cfde76
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837- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
838
cabdb9b1
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839- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
840
5d89d60f
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841- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
842
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843 Changes since 4.0.0b3
844
845- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
846 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
847 configuration.
76db44f9 848
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849- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
850 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
851
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852- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
853 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
854 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 855
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856- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
857 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
858 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
859 a requested address.
860
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861- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
862 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
863 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
864 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
865
866- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
867 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
868 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
869 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
870
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871- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
872 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
873 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
874
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875- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
876 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
877
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878- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
879
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880- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
881 codes through some conditions.
882
c54db708
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883- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
884 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
885
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886- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
887 seemingly random values.
888
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889- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
890
f8b3c6f4
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891- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
892 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
893 one ever has.
894
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895- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
896 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
897 to a REQUEST.
898
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899- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
900 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
901 level.
902
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903 Changes since 4.0.0b2
904
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905- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
906
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907- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
908 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
909 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
910 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
911 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
912
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913- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
914 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
915 new address.
916
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917 Changes since 4.0.0b1
918
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919- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
920 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
921 simultaneously on a single interface.
922
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923- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
924 of service under unusual server configurations
925
926- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
927
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928- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
929 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 930
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931- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
932 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
933 on every pool rebalance run.
934
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935- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
936 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
937
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938- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
939 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
940
ab3a540f 941 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 942
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943- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
944 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
945
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946- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
947 point out the problem.
948
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949- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
950 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
951 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
952
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953- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
954 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
955
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956- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
957 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
958 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
959
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960- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
961
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962- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
963 fixed by Marcus Goller.
964
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965- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
966 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
967 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
968 regardless of the existence of bindings.
969
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970- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
971
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972- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
973 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
974 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
975 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
976 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
977
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978- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
979
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980 Changes since 4.0.0a2
981
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982- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
983 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
984
763cba6b 985- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 986
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987- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
988 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
989 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
990
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991- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
992
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993- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
994 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
995
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996- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
997 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
998 loaded from persistent storage.
999
45d545f0 1000- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1001 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1002 necessary.
1003
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1004- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1005 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1006 rapid-commit option.
1007
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1008- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1009 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1010
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1011 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1012
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1013- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1014 and fix.
1015
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1016- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1017
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1018- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1019
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1020- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1021 for when loading configuration.
1022
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1023- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1024 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1025 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1026
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1027- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1028 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1029 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1030 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1031
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1032- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1033
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1034- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1035 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1036
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1037- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1038
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1039- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1040
1041- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1042 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1043
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1044- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1045 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1046
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1047- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1048
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1049- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1050 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1051
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1052 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1053
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1054- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1055
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1056- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1057 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1058
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1059- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1060
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1061- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1062 initialized.
1063
1064- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1065
1066- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1067 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1068
1069- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1071- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1072
1073- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1074 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1075
1076- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1077
8ea19a71 1078- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1079 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1080
1081- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1082 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1083
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1084- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1085
1086- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1087
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1088- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1089
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1090 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1091
1092- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1093 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1094 no support currently for both.
1095
1096- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1097 IAADDR option.
1098
1099- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1100 options.
1101
1102- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1103
1104- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1105 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1106
1107- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1108 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1109 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1110
1111- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1112 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1113
1114- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1115 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1116 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1117 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1118 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1119 differently, they both use the same code here).
1120
1121- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1122 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1123 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1124
1125- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1126
1127- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1128 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1129 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1130 it should not intercept.
1131
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1132 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1133
1134- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1135 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1136 between primary and secondary.
1137
1138- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1139 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1140 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1141
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1142- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1143
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1144- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1145 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1146 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1147 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1148 or REQUEST messages.
1149
1150- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1151 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1152
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1153- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1154
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1155 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1156
1157- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1158 failover protected subnets was removed.
1159
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1160 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1161
1162- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1163 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1164 odd number of leases).
1165
1166- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1167 rebalance run, and one after.
1168
1169- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1170 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1171 processing these messages.
1172
fe5b0fdd 1173 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1174
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1175- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1176 objects.
1177
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1178- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1179 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1180 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1181 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1182 at Allianz.
1183
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1184- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1185 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1186
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1187- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1188 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1189
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1190- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1191 caused the server to abort.
1192
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1193- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1194 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1195 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1196
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1197- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1198 by empty spaces would not get included.
1199
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1200- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1201 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1202
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1203- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1204 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1205
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1206- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1207 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1208
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1209- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1210 on the parameter request list.
1211
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1212 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1213
1214- Some spelling fixes.
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1216 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1217
1218- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1219 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1220
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1221- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1222 domain-search option syntax.
1223
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1224 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1225
1226- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1227 hash table was repaired.
1228
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1229- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1230 entering normal state.
1231
1232- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1233 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1234 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1235
1236- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1237 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1239- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1240 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1241 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1242 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1243
45d545f0 1244- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1245 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1246 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1247 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1248 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1249 to their needs.
1250
1251- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1252 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1253 run will attempt balance.
1254
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1255- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1256
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1257 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1258
1259- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1260 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1261 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1262 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1263
98bd7ca0 1264- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1265 was introduced.
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1266
1267- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1268 via OMAPI.
1269
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1270- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1271 the protocol draft.
1272
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1273- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1274 one does not already exist on the system.
1275
b43c87ad 1276- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1277
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1278- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1279 matches RFC 3074.
1280
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1281- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1282 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1283 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1284
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1285- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1286 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1287 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1288
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1289- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1290 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1291 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1292 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1293
1294- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1295 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1296 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1297 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1298
f7fdb216 1299- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1300 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1301 DHCPv6 support.
1302
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1303- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1304 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1305 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1306
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1307- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1308 have been incorporated.
1309
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1310- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1311 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1312 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1313 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1314 that belong to the peer in need.
1315
1316- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1317 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1318
1319- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1320 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1321 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1322
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1323- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1324 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1325
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1326- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1327 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1328 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1329 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1330 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1331
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1332- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1333 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1334 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1335 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1336
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1337- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1338 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1339 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1340 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1341 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1342 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1343 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1344 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1345 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1346
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1347- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1348 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1349
41e45067 1350- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1351 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1352 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1353 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1354
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1355- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1356 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1357 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1358 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1359
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1360- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1361 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1362 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1363 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1364 via Robin Breathe.
1365
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1366- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1367 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1368 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1369 from Christof Chen.
1370
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1371- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1372 formally supported.
1373
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1374 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1375
1376- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1377 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1378
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1379 Changes since 3.0.5
1380
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1381- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1382 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1383 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1384 they actually received.
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1385
1386- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1387
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1388- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1389 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1390 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1391 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1392
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1393- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1394
d69fb6a8 1395- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1396 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1397
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1398- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1399 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1400 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1401 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1402 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1403 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1404 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1405 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1406
1407- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1408 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1409 'file' field.
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1411- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1412 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1413
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1414- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1415 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1416 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1417
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1418- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1419 from Chris Wagner.
1420
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1421- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1422 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1423 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1424
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1425- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1426 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1427 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1428 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1429 was set.
1430
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1431- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1432 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1433
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1434- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1435 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1436 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1437 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1438 active ones.
1439
02428754 1440 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1441
901306d5 1442- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1443 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1444 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1445 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1446 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1447
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1448- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1449 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1450
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1451 Changes since 3.0.4
1452
1453- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1454 scopes are actually global has been added.
1455
1456- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1457 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1458 known to be damaging.
1459
1460- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1461 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1462 balancing).
1463
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1464- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1465 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1466 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1467
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1468- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1469 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1470 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1471
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1472- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1473 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1474 more clear now.
1475
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1476- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1477 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1478 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1479 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1480 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1481 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1483- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1484 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1485
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1486- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1487 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1488 made possible.
1489
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1490- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1491 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1492 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1493
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1494- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1495 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1496
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1497- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1498 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1499 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1500
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1501- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1502 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1503 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1504 value with the later configured value).
1505
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1506- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1507 have been named and documented.
1508
1509- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1510 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1511 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1512 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1513 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1514 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1515 write new output.
1516
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1517 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1518
1519- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1520 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1521
1522 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1523
1524- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1525 mailing list.
1526
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1527 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1528
45d545f0 1529- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1530 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1531
1532- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1533 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1534
1535- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1536 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1537 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1538 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1539
1540- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1541 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1542 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1543 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1544 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1545 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1546 transition (properly).
1547
1548- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1549
1550 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1551
1552- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1553 STDIN after reading one line.
1554
1555- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1556 descriptor it opened twice.
1557
1558- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1559 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1560 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1561
1562 Changes since 3.0.3
1563
1564- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1565 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1566 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1567
1568- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1569 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1570 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1571
1572- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1573 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1574 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1575 leases to allocate.
1576
1577- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1578 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1579 than the entire block of them.
1580
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1581! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1582 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1583 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1584 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1585 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1586 to a patch from infamous42md.
1587
1588! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1589 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1590 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1591 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1592 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1593 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1594
1595- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1596 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1597 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1598
1599- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1600 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1601
1602- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1603 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1604 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1605 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1606 transitional states.
1607
1608- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1609 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1610 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1611
1612- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1613 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1614 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1615
1616- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1617 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1618
1619- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1620 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1621
1622- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1623 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1624 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1625
1626- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1627 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1628
1629- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1630 repaired.
1631
1632- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1633 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1634 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1635 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1636
1637- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1638 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1639 data.
1640
1641- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1642 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1643 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1644 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1645 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1646
1647- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1648 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1649 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1650 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1651 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1652
1653- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1654 has been repaired.
1655
1656- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1657 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1658 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1659 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1660 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1661
1662- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1663 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 1665- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1666 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1667 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1668 move to 3.[01].x.
1669
1670- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1671 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1672
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1673 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1674
1675- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1676 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1677
1678- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1679 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1680 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1681 workaround.
1682
1683 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1684
1685- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1686 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1687
1688 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1689
1690- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1691 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1692 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1693
1694- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1695 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1696 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1697
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1698 Changes since 3.0.2
1699
1700- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1701 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1702 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1703
1704- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1705 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1706 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1707 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1708 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1709
1710- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1711 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1712 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1713
1714- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1715 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1716 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1717
1718- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1719 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1720 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1721 Peter Poeml.
1722
1723- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1724 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1725
1726- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1727 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1728 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1729 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1730 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1731 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1732
1733- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1734 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1735 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1736 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1737
1738- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1739 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1740 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1741 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1742
1743- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1744 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1745
1746- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1747 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1748 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1749
1750- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1751 7 bytes, and failover.
1752
1753- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1754 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1755 at Red Hat.
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1756
1757- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1758 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1759 should work better.
1760
1761- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1762 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1763 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1764
1765- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1766 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1767 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1768
1769 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1770
1771- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1772 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1773
1774 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1775
45d545f0 1776- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1777 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1778 overloading. This was repaired.
1779
1780- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1781 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1782 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1783 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1784 three chunks to fit.
1785
1786- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1787 were repaired.
1788
1789- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1790 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1791 leak).
1792
1793 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1794
1795- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1796 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1797
1798 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1799
1800- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1801
1802 Changes since 3.0.1
1803
1804- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1805 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1806 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1807
1808- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1809 name was not provided by the server.
1810
1811- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1812 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1813
1814- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1815 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1816
1817- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1818 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1819
1820- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1821
1822- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1823
1824- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1825 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1826 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1827 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1828 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1829
1830- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1831 the configuration be globally scoped.
1832
1833- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1834 Farkas.
1835
1836- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1837 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1838
1839- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1840 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1841
1842- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1843 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1844
1845- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1846 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1847 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1848 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1849
1850- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1851 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1852 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1853 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1854
1855- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1856 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1857 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1858
1859- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1860
1861- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1862 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1863 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1864
1865- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1866 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1867 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1868 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1869 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1870
1871- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1872 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1873
1874- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1875 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1876
1877- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1878 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1879 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1880 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1881
1882- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1883 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1884
1885- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1886 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1887 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1888
1889- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1890 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1891 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1892 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1893 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1894 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1895
1896- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1897 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1898 Infoblox.
1899
1900- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1901
1902- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1903 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1904 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1905 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1906 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1907 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1908 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1909
1910- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1911 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1912 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1913
1914- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1915 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1916 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1917
1918- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1919
1920 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1921
1922- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1923 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1924 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1925 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1926 systems either.
1927
1928- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1929
1930- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1931 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1932 is false.
1933
1934- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1935 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1936
1937- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1938
1939 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1940
1941! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1942 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1943 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1944 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1945 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1946 both finding and solving the problem.
1947
1948! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1949 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1950 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1951 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1952 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1953 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1954 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1955 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1956 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1957 published version of ISC DHCP.
1958
1959- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1960
1961- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1962
1963 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1964
1965- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1966 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1967 Richard Hirst.
1968
1969- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1970 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1971 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1972
1973- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1974
1975- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1976 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1977 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1978 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1979
1980- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1981 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1982
1983- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1984 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1985
1986- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1987
1988 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1989
1990- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1991 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1992
1993- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1994 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1995 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1996
1997- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1998 by name was fixed.
1999
45d545f0 2000- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2001 longer result in error.
2002
2003- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2004
2005- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2006 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2007 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2008
2009- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2010 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2011
2012- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2013 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2014 Blapp.
2015
2016- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2017 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2018 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2019 Martin Blapp.
2020
2021- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2022 expiry times in failover configurations.
2023
2024- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2025 Steve G.
2026
2027- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2028 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2029
2030- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2031 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2032 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2033 now "unknown-144".
2034
2035- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2036 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2037
2038 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2039
2040- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2041
2042- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2043 not be bash.
2044
2045- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2046
2047- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2048 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2049 that errored before will now work properly.
2050
2051- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2052 names was repaired.
2053
2054- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2055 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2056 configuration file.
2057
2058- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2059 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2060
2061- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2062 error rather than a null dereference.
2063
2064 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2065
2066- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2067
2068- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2069
2070- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2071 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2072
2073- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2074
2075- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2076
2077- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2078 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2079 self-corrupting lease databases.
2080
2081- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2082
2083- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2084 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2085
2086- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2087
2088- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2089
2090- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2091 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2092 Ling Gou.
2093
2094- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2095 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2096
2097- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2098 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2099 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2100
2101- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2102 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2103
2104 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2105
2106- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2107 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2108
2109- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2110
2111- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2112 a memory leak.
2113
2114- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2115 script.
2116
2117- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2118
2119- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2120
2121- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2122
2123- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2124
2125- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2126
2127- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2128
2129- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2130
2131- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2132
2133- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2134
2135- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2136
2137- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2138
2139- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2140
2141 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2142
2143- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2144 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2145 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2146
2147 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2148
2149- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2150 to be renewed.
2151
2152- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2153 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2154
2155- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2156 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2157
2158- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2159 that two permit lists matched.
2160
2161- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2162 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2163
2164- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2165
2166- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2167 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2168
2169- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2170
2171- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2172
2173- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2174 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2175 going to update its A record.
2176
2177- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2178 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2179 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2180 DNS server.
2181
2182- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2183
2184- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2185
2186- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2187 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2188 NetBSD project).
2189
2190- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2191 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2192
2193- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2194 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2195
2196- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2197
2198- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2199
2200- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2201 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2202 failover protocol standard.
2203
2204- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2205 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2206 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2207
2208- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2209 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2210 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2211 do so.
2212
2213- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2214
2215 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2216
2217- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2218
2219- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2220 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2221
2222- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2223 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2224
2225- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2226 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2227 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2228
2229- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2230 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2231 network, merge the two pools.
2232
2233- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2234 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2235 fix this bug.
2236
2237 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2238
2239- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2240 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2241
2242- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2243 the same case.
2244
2245- Additional documentation.
2246
2247- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2248 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2249
2250 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2251
2252- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2253- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2254
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2256
2257- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2258 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2259 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2260 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2261 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2262
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2264
2265- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2266 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2267 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2268 wasn't the one that removed it.
2269
2270- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2271 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2272 were not configured.
2273
2274- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2275
2276- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2277 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2278 routing information.
2279
2280- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2281 request being sent.
2282
2283- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2284 done.
2285
2286- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2287 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2288 were pending.
2289
2290- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2291 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2292 problems with failover.
2293
2294- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2295 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2296 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2297
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2299
2300- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2301 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2302
2303- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2304 no object is open, it dumps core.
2305
2306- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2307
2308- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2309
2310- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2311
2312- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2313 a host object attribute with a null value.
2314
2315 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2316
2317- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2318
2319- Fix an obscure core dump.
2320
2321- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2322 when crucial information is left out.
2323
2324- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2325
2326- Documentation updates.
2327
2328 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2329
2330- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2331
2332- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2333 structure wasn't zeroed.
2334
2335- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2336 incorrectly.
2337
2338- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2339 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2340 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2341 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2342 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2343 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2344 restarted.
2345
2346 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2347
2348- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2349 in failover-enabled pools.
2350
2351- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2352 declarations).
2353
2354- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2355 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2356
2357- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2358 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2359
2360- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2361
2362- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2363 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2364
2365- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2366
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2368
2369- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2370
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2372
2373- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2374
2375- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2376
2377- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2378
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2379 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2380
2381- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2382 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2383 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2384
2385- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2386 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2387 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2388 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2389 string.
2390
2391- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2392
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2394
2395- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2396 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2397
2398- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2399 malformed packets.
2400
2401- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2402
2403- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2404 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2405 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2406
2407- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2408
2409- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2410
2411- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2412
2413- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2414 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2415
2416- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2417 tcp connections from being played back.
2418
2419- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2420 on exit.
2421
2422- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2423
2424- Add some configurability to the build system.
2425
2426- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2427
2428- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2429 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2430 hadn't been noticed until now.
2431
2432 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2433
2434- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2435 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2436
2437- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2438 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2439 conformant, but also didn't work).
2440
2441- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2442 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2443
2444- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2445 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2446
2447- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2448 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2449
2450- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2451 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2452
2453- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2454 doing failover.
2455
2456- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2457 running on alpha processors.
2458
2459- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2460 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2461
2462- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2463
2464- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2465
2466- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2467 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2468
2469- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2470
2471- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2472 actually named (key names are domain names).
2473
2474- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2475
2476- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2477 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2478
2479- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2480 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2481
2482- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2483 statements.
2484
2485- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2486 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2487
2488- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2489 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2490 operating.
2491
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2493
2494- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2495 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2496 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2497 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2498
2499- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2500 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2501
2502- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2503
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2505
2506- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2507 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2508
2509- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2510 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2511 to the chain.
2512
2513- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2514
2515- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2516
2517- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2518
98311e4b 2519- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2520 attribute values in omshell.
2521
98311e4b 2522- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2523
2524- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2525
2526 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2527
2528- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2529 DHCPDECLINE.
2530
2531- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2532
2533- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2534 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2535 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2536
2537- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2538
2539- Documentation fixes.
2540
2541- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2542 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2543
2544- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2545 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2546
2547- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2548
2549- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2550
2551- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2552 case-insensitive.
2553
2554- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2555
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2557 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2558 consistently.
2559
2560- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2561 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2562
2563- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2564
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2565 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2566
2567- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2568 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2569 result of duplicate leases.
2570
2571- Document OMAPI server objects.
2572
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2574
2575- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2576 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2577
2578- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2579 core dumps.
2580
2581- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2582 Friedrich.
2583
2584- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2585
2586 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2587
2588- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2589 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2591 billing class code.
2592
2593- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2594 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2595
2596- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2597 trace file.
2598
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2601- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2602 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2603 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2604 e.g., Digital Unix.
2605
2606- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2607 when no error had occurred.
2608
2609- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2610 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2611 non-communicating state.
2612
2613- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2614
2615- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2616 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2617 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2618
2619- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2620 when the client lease expired.
2621
2622- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2623 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2624 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2625 in testing.
2626
2627- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2628 the command line, it would fail.
2629
2630- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2631 user impact).
2632
2633- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2634
2635- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2636 they're executable.
2637
2638 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2640- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2641 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2642 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2643 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2644
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2645- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2646 Transmeta.
2647
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2648- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2649 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2650 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2651 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2652
2653- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2654 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2655
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2657
2658- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2659 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2660
2661- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2662
2663- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2664
2665- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2666
2667- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2668
2669- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2670
2671- Update some parts of the README file.
2672
2673- Support GCC on SCO.
2674
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2676
2677- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2678 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2679
2680- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2681 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2682 unbill the old class.
2683
2684- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2685 process the state transition immediately.
2686
2687- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2688 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2689
2690- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2691
2692- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2693
2694- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2695
2696- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2697
2698- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2699 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2700 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2701
2702- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2703 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2704
2705- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2706 lease file.
2707
2708- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2709
2710- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2714- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2715 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2716
2717- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2718
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2720
2721- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2722
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2724
2725- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2726
2727- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2728 pl19.
2729
2730- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2731 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2732 past the regression test.
2733
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2735
2736- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2737 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2738
2739- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2740 DHCPREQUEST.
2741
2742- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2743
2744- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2745
2746- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2747
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2750- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2751 (Damien Neil)
2752
2753- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2754 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2755
2756- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2757 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2758 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2759
2760- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2761 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2762 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2763 message.
2764
2765- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2766 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2767 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2768
98311e4b 2769- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2771 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2772 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2773 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2774 this way will work.
2775
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2776- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2777
2778- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2779 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2780 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2781 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2782
2783 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2784
2785 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2786
2787- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2788 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2789 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2790
2791- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2792 Hermann Lauer.
2793
2794- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2795 messages.
2796
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2797- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2798 it contained quoted strings.
2799
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2800 ** there was no pl17 **
2801
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2804- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2805 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2806 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2807 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2808 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2809 tracking down memory leaks.
2810
2811- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2812 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2813 Solaris.
2814
2815- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2816 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2817 corruption and core dumps.
2818
2819- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2820 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2821
2822- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2823
2824- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2825 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2826
2827- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2828 name and version to standard output.
2829
2830- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2831
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2832- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2833 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2834
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2835- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2836
2837- Lots of documentation updates.
2838
2839- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2840 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2841
2842- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2843
2844- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2845 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2846
adbef119 2847 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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2848
2849- Some documentation tweaks.
2850
2851- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2852
2853- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2854
2855- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2856 agent options into them.
2857
2858- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2859
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2860- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2861 options.
2862
adbef119 2863 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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2864
2865- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2866 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2867 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2868 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2869 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2870
2871- Fix up documentation.
2872
2873- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2874 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2875
2876- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2877
2878- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2879
2880- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2881 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2882 practical use otherwise.
2883
2884- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2885 for debugging.
2886
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2888
2889- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2890 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2891 dump on some systems.
2892
2893- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2894 option.
2895
2896- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2897 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2898
2899- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2900 that were not printing enough information.
2901
2902- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2903 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2904
2905- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2906 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2907 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2908 were answering.
2909
2910- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2911 the transition.
2912
2913
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2915
2916- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2917
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2918 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2919
2920- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2921 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2922 representation from working correctly.
2923
2924- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2925 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2926 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2927 could spin.
2928
2929- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2930 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2931
2932- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2933 interface name on the command line.
2934
2935- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2936 client state.
2937
2938- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2939 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2940 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2941 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2942 added by Ted Lemon.
2943
2944- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2945 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2946
2947- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2948 end option.
2949
2950- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2951 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2952 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2953
2954- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2955 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2956 face of a null hardware address on input.
2957
2958- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2959 specified unqualified.
2960
2961- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2962 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2963
2964- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2965 RFC.
2966
2967- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2968
2969- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2970
2971- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2972 it works.
2973
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2974 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2975
2976- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2977 to CVS.
2978
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2979 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2980
2981- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2982
2983- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2984 in patchlevel 9.
2985
2986- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2987 options at renewal time.
2988
2989- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2990 configuration language.
2991
2992- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2993
2994- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2995 done when no client hostname was received.
2996
2997- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2998
2999- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3000 the DHCP option space.
3001
3002- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3003
3004- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3005 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3006
3007- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3008 silently dropped.
3009
3010- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3011 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3012
3013- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3014 will be correctly updated.
3015
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3016 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3017
3018- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3019 bounds-checking.
3020
3021 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3022
3023- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3024
3922772a 3025 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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3027- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3028 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3029 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3030
3031- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3032 option.
3033
3034- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3035 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3036 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3037 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3038 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3039 meaningfully.
3040
3041- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3042 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3043 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3044
3045- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3046 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3047 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3048 this one down!
3049
3050- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3051 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3052 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3053 down and fixing this problem.
3054
3055 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3056
0f6045f8
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3057- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3058 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3059
3060- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3061 environment.
3062
3063- Fix suffix operator.
3064
3065- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3066
3067- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3068 connection code.
3069
3070- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3071
3072- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3073
3074- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3075 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3076
3077- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3078
3079- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3080
3081- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3082 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3083
3084- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3085 spawn with.
3086
3087- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3088 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3089
3090- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3091 for OMAPI.
3092
3093- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3094 can install in host declarations.
3095
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3096 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3097
3098- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3099 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3100 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3101 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3102 comments)!
3103
3104- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3105
6ed7a93d
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3106- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3107 request for help on this with patches!
3108
3109- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3110 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3111 lost, they never reconnect.
3112
3113- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3114 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3115
3116- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3117 dump.
3118
3119- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3120 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3121 catching this one.
3122
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3123 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3124
3125- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3126 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3127 lease renewal time.
3128
3129- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3130 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3131 declared without a key.
3132
3133- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3134
3135- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3136 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3137
3138- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3139 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3140 determine the maximum size of the response.
3141
592d8153
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3142 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3143
359b023e
TL
3144- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3145 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3146
592d8153
TL
3147- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3148 RENEWING client.
3149
3150- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3151
3152- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3153 using memcmp().
3154
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3155 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3156
3157- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3158 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3159 pointing this out.
3160
3161- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3162 exit.
3163
3164- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3165
3166- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3167 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.