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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.4.1
3 28 February 2018
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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9Please note that that ISC DHCP is now licensed under the Mozilla Public License,
10MPL 2.0. Please see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/ to read the MPL 2.0
11license terms.
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b12d9105 13The areas of focus for ISC DHCP 4.4 were:
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151. Dynamic DNS additions
162. dhclient improvements
173. Support for dynamic shared libraries
18
19Dynamic DNS Improvements:
20
21- We added three new server configuration parameters which influence DDNS
22 conflict resolution:
23
24 1. ddns-dual-stack-mixed-mode - alters DNS conflict resolution behavior
25 to mitigate issues with non-compliant clients in dual stack environments.
26
27 2. ddns-guard-id-must-match - relaxes the DHCID RR client id matching
28 requirement of DNS conflict resolution.
29
30 3. ddns-other-guard-is-dynamic - alters dual-stack-mixed-mode behavior to
31 allow unguarded DNS entries to be overwritten in certain cases
32
33- The server now honors update-static-leases parameter for static DHCPv6
34 hosts.
35
36dhclient Improvements:
37
a804fcc0 38 - We've added three command line parameters to dhclient:
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40 1. --prefix-len-hint - directs dhclient to use the given length as
41 the prefix length hint when requesting prefixes
42
a804fcc0 43 2. --decline-wait-time - instructs the client to wait the given number
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44 of seconds after declining an IPv4 address before issuing a discover
45
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46 3. --address-prefix-len - specifies the prefix length passed by dhclient
47 into the client script (via the environment variable ip6_prefixlen) with
48 each IPv6 address. We added this parameter because we have changed the
49 default value from 64 to 128 in order to be compliant with RFC3315bis
50 draft (-09, page 64) and RFC5942, Section 4, point 1.
51 **WARNING**: The new default value of 128 may not be backwardly compatible
52 with your environment. If you are operating without a router, such as
7932503f 53 between VMs on a host, you may find they cannot see each other with prefix
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54 length of 128. In such cases, you'll need to either provide routing or use
55 the command line parameter to set the value to 64. Alternatively you may
56 change the default at compile time by setting DHCLIENT_DEFAULT_PREFIX_LEN
57 in includes/site.h.
58
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59 - dhclient will now generate a DHCPv6 DECLINE message when the client script
60 indicates a DAD failure
61
62Dynamic shared library support:
63
64 Configure script, configure.ac+lt, which supports libtool is now provided
65 with the source tar ball. This script can be used to configure ISC DHCP
9de870cc 66 to build with libtool and thus use dynamic shared libraries.
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68Other Highlights:
69
70 - The server now supports dhcp-cache-threshold for DHCPv6 operations
71 - The server now supports DHPv6 address allocation based on EUI-64 DUIDs
72 - Experimental support for alternate relay port in the both the server
73 and relay for IPv4, IPv6 and 4o6 (see: draft-ietf-dhc-relay-port-10.txt)
74
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75For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
76well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
77README file.
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79ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
80output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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82The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
83work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
84<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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86ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
87Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
88by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
89
cce04313 90 Changes since 4.4.1 (New Features)
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92- A new configuration parameter, ping-cltt-secs (v4 operation only), has
93 been added to allow the user to specify the number of seconds that must
94 elapse since CLTT before a ping check is conducted. Prior to this, the
95 value was hard coded at 60 seconds. Please see the server man pages for
96 a more detailed discussion.
97 [ISC-Bugs #36283]
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99- A new configuration parameter, ping-timeout-ms (v4 operation only),
100 has been added that allows the user to specify the amount of time
101 the server waits for a ping-check response in milliseconds rather
102 than in seconds (via ping-timeout). When greater than zero, the value
103 of ping-timeout-ms will override the value of ping-timeout. Thanks
104 to Jay Doran from Bluecat Networks for suggesting this feature.
9bb1ce33 105 [ISC-Bugs #10,!6 git ebe4f7ae427fa91f561a0b6e5f242de08d319a16]
cb89a691 106
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107 Changes since 4.4.1 (Bug Fixes)
108
109- Corrected a misuse of the BIND9 DDNS API which caused DDNS updates to be
110 carried out over TCP rather than UDP. The coding error was exposed by
111 migration to BIND9 9.11. Thanks to Jinmei Tatuya at Infoblox for
112 reporting the issue.
113 [ISC-Bugs #47757]
114
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115- Bind9 now defaults to requiring python to build. The Makefile for
116 building Bind9 when bundled with ISC DHCP was modified to turn off
117 this dependency.
b43d8e41 118 [ISC-Bugs #3,!1 git cc35f84943df44dac2499f3e16e8aaba7d54191d]
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120- Corrected a dual-stack mixed-mode issue that occurs when both
121 ddns-guard-id-must-match and ddns-other-guard-is-dynamic
122 are enabled and that caused the server to incorrectly interpret
123 the presence of a guard record belonging to another client as
124 a case of no guard record at all. Thanks to Fernando Soto
125 from BlueCat Networks for reporting this issue.
cb89a691 126 [ISC-Bugs #1,!2 git 9ef78585440f568da2a2a0093a8c40c49118e292]
c07eb442 127
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128- Corrected a compilation issue that occurred when building without DNS
129 update ability (e.g. by undefining NSUPDATE).
9bb1ce33 130 [ISC-Bugs #16,!9 git ddb508ac083dae4ff83279dd240bad7f73a97b7d]
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132- Corrected an issue that was causing the server, when running in
133 DHPCv4 mode, to segfault when class lease limits are reached.
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134 Thanks to Peter Nagy at Porion-Digital for reporting the matter
135 and submitting a patch.
9bb1ce33 136 [ISC-Bugs #13,!7 git dfcbe359ab278cad70015994ca73ef50d626b23a]
fce94f06 137
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138 Changes since 4.4.0 (New Features)
139- none
cce04313 140 Changes since 4.4.0 (Bug Fixes)
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141
142- A delayed-ack value of 0 (the default), now correctly disables the delayed
143 feature. A change in 4.4.0 prohibited lease updates marking leases active
144 from be written to the lease file when delayed-ack is 0. This in turn,
145 caused servers to lose active lease assignments upon restart.
146 [ISC-Bugs #47141]
147
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148! Option reference count was not correctly decremented in error path
149 when parsing buffer for options. Reported by Felix Wilhelm, Google
150 Security Team.
151 [ISC-Bugs #47140]
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152 CVE: CVE-2018-5733
153
154! Corrected an issue where large sized 'X/x' format options were causing
155 option handling logic to overwrite memory when expanding them to human
156 readable form. Reported by Felix Wilhelm, Google Security Team.
157 [ISC-Bugs #47139]
158 CVE: CVE-2018-5732
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160- Added use of new Bind9 compatibility header files, that are now necessary
161 to supply type definitions for primitive data types, removed from Bind9
162 proper. Altered util/bind.sh to pull from Bind9 repo on gitlab.
163 [ISC-Bugs #48072]
164 [ISC-Bugs #48071]
165
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166 Changes since 4.4.0b1 (New Features)
167
168- Duplicate address detection when binding to a new IPv6 address was added
169 to the following dhclient scripts: linux,freebsd,netbsd,openbsd, and macos.
170 The scripts will check for DAD errors after binding to a new IPv6 address
171 for at most --dad-wait-time seconds. If a DAD error is detected the script
172 will exit with a value of 3, instructing dhclient to decline the address. If
173 dad-wait-time is zero (the default), DAD error checking is not peformed.
174 [ISC-Bugs 46805]
175
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176- Support for sending and receiving additional DHCP4 options has been added
177 to both the dhcpd and dhclient. Specifically: option codes 93,94, and 97
178 (RFC 4578); code 150 (RFC 5859); and codes 209,219, and 211 (RFC 5071).
179 Beyond configuring, sending, requesting, and receiving these options neither
180 server nor client apply any additional logic based on their values.
181 Thanks to Peter Lewis for requesting this change.
182 [ISC-Bugs 47062]
183
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184 Changes since 4.4.0b1 (Bug Fixes)
185
186- Added clarifying text to dhcpd.conf.5 explaining the class match expressions
187 cannot rely on the results of executable statements.
188 [ISC-Bugs #45451]
189
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190- Fixed a bug which causes dhcpd and dhclient to crash on certain
191 systems when given relative path names for lease or pid files on
192 the command line. Affected systems are those on which the C library
193 function, realpath() does not support a second parameter value of
194 NULL (see manpages for realpath(3)).
195 [ISC-Bugs #46957]
196
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197- Fixed a build issue when building with embedded BIND9 under OpenBSD that
198 was causing BIND9 build to not generate dns/enumclass.h and dns/enumtype.h.
199 [ISC-Bugs #46971]
200
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201- Added <dhcp>/m4/README to the distribution tarball. Some versions of
202 ac_local() treat the absence of the m4 subdirectory as error rather than
203 warning. This was causing the call to autoreconf, necessary for building
204 with libtool, to fail.
205 [ISC-Bugs #47075]
206
4aa6129a 207 Changes since 4.4.0a1 (New Features)
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209- Added experimental support for relay port (draft-ietf-dhc-relay-port-10.txt)
210 feature for DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6. Relay port has to be
211 enabled at compile time via --enable-relay-port and is fully backward
212 compatible (i.e. works with previous implementations of servers and relays
213 using the standard ports). A new --rp <relay-port> command line option
214 specifies to dhcrelay an alternate source port for upstream (i.e. toward
215 the server) messages. Thanks to Naiming Shen and Enke Chen of Cisco
216 systems for submitting these patches.
217 [ISC-Bugs #44535]
218
219- Added --release-on-roam to dhcpd server. When enabled and the server detects
220 that a DHCPv6 client (IAID+DUID) has roamed to a new network, it will release
221 the pre-existing leases on the old network and emit a log statement similar
222 to the following:
223
224 "Client: <id> roamed to new network, releasing lease: <address>"
225
226 The server will carry out all of the same steps that would normally occur
227 when a client explicitly releases a lease. This behavior is disabled by
228 default and may only be specified globally. Prior to this the server renders
229 the leases unavailable until they expire or the server is restarted. Clients
230 that need leases in multiple networks must supply a unique IAID in each IA.
231 When release-on-roam is disabled (the default) the server maintains the
232 prior behavior of making such leases unavailable until they expire or the
233 server is restarted. Clients that need leases in multiple networks must
234 supply a unique IAID in each IA. This parameter may only be specified at
235 the global level. Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for
236 suggesting this change.
237 [ISC-Bugs #44576]
238 [ISC-Bugs #46849]
239
240- Support for delayed-ack is now compiled in by default. Prior to this
241 it had to be enabled at compile time via --enable-delayed-acks. The
242 default value for delayed-ack, however, has been changed from 28 to 0
243 (i.e. disabled). This was done to minimize the impact on users not
244 currently using the feature. Please note that the delayed-ack feature
245 is not currently compatible with support for DHPCv4-over-DHCPv6 so
246 when a 4to6 port command line argument enables this in the server the
247 delayed-ack value is reset to 0.
248 [ISC-Bugs #42446]
249
250- The server (-6) now honors the parameter, update-static-leases, for static
251 (fixed-address6) DHCPv6 leases. It is worth noting that because stateful
252 data is not retained by the server for static leases, each time a client
253 requests or renews a static lease, the server will perform DDNS updates for
254 it. This may have significant performance implications for environments
255 with many clients that request or renew static leases often. Similarly,
256 the DNS entries will not be removed by server when a client issues a RELEASE
257 nor if the lease is deleted from the configuration. In such cases the DNS
258 entries must be removed manually. This feature is disabled by default.
259 Thanks to both Bill Shirley and dgutier-at-cern-dot-ch for requesting
260 this change.
261 [ISC-Bugs #34097]
262 [ISC-Bugs #41054]
263 [ISC-Bugs #41450]
264
265- Added to the server (-6) a new statement, local-address6, which specifies
266 the source address of packets sent by the server. An additional flag,
267 bind-local-address6, disabled by default, binds the service socket to
268 to local-address6. Note that bind-local-address does not work with direct
269 clients: a relay has to forward packets to the server using the
270 local-address6 destination.
271 [ISC-Bugs #46084]
272
273 Changes since 4.4.0a1 (Bugs)
274
275- The server now recognizes environment variables PATH_DHCPD_DB and
276 PATH_DHCPD_PID. These had been incorrectly compiled out of the code
277 unless DHCPv6 support was disabled. Additionally, the server man
278 pages were corrected to accurately reflect how the server chooses
279 file names (see lease-file-name and pid-file-name statements). Thanks
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280 to Fernando Soto at Bluecat Networks for bringing this matter to our
281 attention.
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282 [ISC-Bugs #46859]
283
284- Removed an "Impossible condition" error upon exit in the dhcpd server that
285 has been shutdown via OMAPI. This condition was only apparent under Solaris
286 when building with --enable-use-sockets and --enable-ipv4-pktinfo.
287 [ISC-Bugs #36118]
288
65eed5c1 289- Corrected some minor Coverity issues: CID 1426059, 1426058, and 1426057.
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290 [ISC-Bugs #46836]
291
292- Added missing text to dhclient.8 and expanded release note coverage
293 for --address-prefix-len changes.
7512d88b 294
0e76cb91 295 Changes since 4.3.6 (New Features)
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297- Added --enable-bind-install to install embedded bind includes and
298 libraries. Default is to not install them (it was the previous
299 behavior). If you'd like to change the includedir and/or libdir
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300 installation directories to something different than for ISC DHCP
301 you must pass them using the --with-bind-extra-config configuration
302 arguments.
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303 [ISC-Bugs #39318]
304
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305- Added support of dynamic shared libraries with libtool. A new
306 --enable-libtool configuration parameter is available but
307 should not be used directly: *please* read the build configuration
308 section in the README file for the recommended procedure.
309 [ISC-Bugs #29402]
310
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311- IPv6 operation now supports an EUI-64 based address allocation which will
312 calculate addresses for clients with EUI-64 DUIDs based on those DUIDs when
313 enabled by setting use-eui-64 true. The parameter may defined down to the
314 pool scope. Note this feature must be compiled in by defining EUI_64 in
315 includes/site.h. This flag is undefined by default.
316 [ISC-Bugs #43927]
317
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318- The directory includes/isc-dhcp and it's only occupant, dst.h, have
319 been removed from the source tree. They are obsolete for branches
320 other than v4_1_esv.
321 [ISC-bugs #45541]
322
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323- Replaced ISC licensing with Mozilla Public License, MPL 2.0 licensing
324 throughout. Please see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/ to read
325 the MPL 2.0 license terms.
326 [ISC-Bugs #45541]
327
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328- Load balancing for failover peers can now be disabled by setting
329 "load balance max secs" to 0. Doing so for both peers means both
330 servers will respond to all DHCPDISCOVERs or DHCPREQUESTs as soon as
331 they are received.
332 [ISC-Bugs #39669]
333
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334- Added a new dhclient command line parameter, --prefix-len-hint <length>.
335 When used in conjunction with -P, it directs dhclient to use the given
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336 length as the prefix length hint when requesting prefixes. Thanks to both
337 Indy, of the FireballISO open source project and H. Peter Anvin for
338 suggesting this change.
339 [ISC-Bugs #43792]
340 [ISC-Bugs #35112]
341 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
342 [ISC-Bugs #29470]
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344- dhclient will now wait for 10 seconds after declining an IPv4 address
345 before issuing a discover. This is in keeping with RFC 2131, section 3.1.5.
346 Prior to this dhclient did not wait at all. The amount of time dhclient
347 waits can be specified via a new command line parameter:
348 --decline-wait-time <seconds>. A value of zero equates to no wait at all.
ecf9f77b 349 Thanks to Pavel Kankovsky for bringing this matter to our attention.
9de870cc 350 **NOTE: THIS IS CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOR.
3e88222f 351 [ISC-Bugs #45457]
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353- dhclient will now include the lease address when logging DHCPOFFERs,
354 DHCPREQUESTs, DHCPACKs, DHCPRELEASEs, and DHCPDECLINEs. Additionally,
355 DHCPOFFERs will be logged before their corresponding DHCPREQUESTs are
356 sent and logged.
357 [ISC-Bugs #2729]
358
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359- When given the -T command line argument, in addition to reading the
360 current lease file, the server will write the leases to a temporary
361 lease file. This can help detect issues in server configuration that
362 only surface when leases are written to the file. The current lease
363 file will not be modified and the temporary lease file is removed upon
364 completion of the test.
365 [ISC-Bugs #22267]
366
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367- dhclient will now generate a DHCPv6 DECLINE message containing all IA_NA
368 addresses which for which the client script indicates a DAD failure. After
369 receiving the DECLINE reply, dhclient will restart the solicit process.
370 Note, the client script must exit with a value of 3 to signify that the
371 address failed DAD. Thanks to Jiri Popelka of Red Hat for submitting the
372 patch that was the foundation for this change.
9de870cc 373 **NOTE: THIS IS CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOR.
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374 [ISC-Bugs #21237]
375 [ISC-Bugs #23357]
f0f3555e 376 [ISC-Bugs #36966]
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378- Replaced compilation option, enable-secs-byteorder, with a run-time, server
379 configuration parameter, check-secs-byte-order. When enabled, the
380 server will check for clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field
381 incorrectly. This field should be in network byte order but some clients
382 get it wrong. When this parameter is enabled the server will examine the
383 secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low byte zero) swap
384 the bytes. The default is disabled. This parameter is only useful when
385 doing load balancing within failover.
386 [ISC-Bugs #45364]
387
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388- The default value for server (-6) parameter, prefix-length-mode, has been
389 changed from "exact" to "prefer". In "prefer" mode the server will offer
390 the first available prefix with the same length as that requested by the
391 client. If none are found then it will offer the first available prefix of
392 any length. This is more in line with with RFC 8168 and should improve
393 the out-of-the-box user experience.
9de870cc 394 **NOTE: THIS IS CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOR.
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395 [ISC-Bugs #45615]
396
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397- Added support for 'dhcp-cache-threshold' to IPv6 operation: If a client
398 renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease has elapsed
399 (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease (provide a
400 lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather than extend or
401 renew the lease. This allows the server to reply without needlessly
402 writing leases to disk. The preferred and valid lease lifetimes
403 sent to the client will be reduced by the age of the lease. The option
404 may be specified down to the pool level and is supported for all three
405 pool types: NA, TA, and PD.
406 [ISC-Bugs #45292]
407
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408- Added three new server configuration parameters which influence DDNS:
409 1. ddns-dual-stack-mixed-mode - alters DNS conflict resolution behavior
410 to mitigate issues with non-compliant clients in dual stack environments.
411
412 2. ddns-guard-id-must-match - relaxes the DHCID RR client id matching
413 requirement of DNS conflict resolution.
414
2f3eca17 415 3. ddns-other-guard-is-dynamic - alters dual-stack-mixed-mode behavior to
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416 allow unguarded DNS entries to be overwritten in certain cases
417 [ISC-Bugs #42620]
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418 [ISC-Bugs #42621]
419 [ISC-Bugs #44753]
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421- A "key-algorithm <algorithm>" statement has been added to omshell to
422 allow the specification of the key algorithm to use during transaction
423 authentication. Prior to this it was hard-coded to be hmac-md5. It now
424 supports all of the same algorithms as the dhcpd server: hmac-md5 (the
425 default), hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384, and hmac-sha512.
426 [ISC-Bugs #46771]
427
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428- Added a server configuration parameter, persist-eui-64-leases, which
429 determines whether or not EUI-64 based leases are written to the
430 leases file. Default is true.
431 [ISC-Bugs #45046]
432
140612c8 433- Changed the default value of the prefix length passed by dhclient into the
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434 client script for each IPv6 address from 64 to 128. This was done to comply
435 with RFC3315bis draft (-09, page 64) and RFC5942, Section 4, point 1.
436 In addition, dhclient now supports a command line argument,
437 --address-prefix-len, which may be used to override the default value.
438 **WARNING**: This change may not be backwardly compatible with your
439 environment. If you are operating without a router, such as between VMs on
440 a host, you may find they cannot see each with prefix length of 128. In
441 such cases, you'll need to either provide routing or use the command line
442 parameter to set the value to 64. Alternatively you may change the default
443 at compile time by setting DHCLIENT_DEFAULT_PREFIX_LEN in includes/site.h.
140612c8 444 [ISC-Bugs #23252]
fa6c4c08 445 [ISC-Bugs #37221]
140612c8 446
f1fc5ede 447- Modified dhclient (-6) to bypass sending a confirm (INIT REBOOT) when it has
a804fcc0 448 only expired address associations. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
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449 raising the issue and submitting the patch.
450 [ISC-Bugs #22675]
0e76cb91 451 Changes since 4.3.6 (Bugs):
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453- Corrected an issue where the server would return a client's previously
454 released prefix lease even when the client provides a prefix length
455 hint that does not match the prior lease. Now the server will only
456 return the previous lease if it exactly matches the hint. If not
457 it will attempt to allocate a new prefix based on the hint and the
458 prefix-length-mode. Thanks to Tim DeNike - Lightspeed Communications
459 for pointing out the error of our ways.
460 [ISC-bugs #45780]
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a804fcc0 462- Added explicit include of BIND9 isc/util.h to adapt to revisions
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463 in BIND9 (see BIND9 ticket #46311). Prior to this the build was failing
464 with implicit function declarations errors for POST() and INSIST().
465 [ISC-bugs #46332]
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467- Added to code ignore empty IPv4 host name option (code 12). While RFC 2132
468 states the option cannot be empty, some clients are apparently capable of
469 sending it. Prior to this the server was attempting to use it and store it
470 in the lease file causing issues with DDNS and so forth.
471 [ISC-bugs #43786]
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473- Corrected dhclient command line parsing for --dad-wait-time that causes
474 even valid values to fail as invalid on some environments.
475 [ISC-Bugs #46535]
476
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477- Replaced iasubopt::heap_index with separate values for active and inactive
478 heaps: iasubopt::active_index and iasubopt::inactive_index. This was done
a804fcc0 479 to accommodate a change in behavior in BIND9 isc_heap_delete().
0e76cb91 480 [ISC-bugs #46719]
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482! Plugged a socket descriptor leak in OMAPI, that can occur when there is
483 data pending to be written to an OMAPI connection, when the connection
484 is closed by the reader. Thanks to Pavel Zhukov at RedHat for bringing
485 this issue to our attention and whose patch helped guide us in the right
486 direction.
487 [ISC-Bugs #46767]
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489- The ability of the server to send back dhcp6.vendor-opts values has been
490 restored. A change in 4.3.5 (see #29246) which enabled it to send back the
491 FQDN option unfortunately broke its ability send back dhcp6.vendor-opts.
492 Thanks to Sumant Gupta (sumantgupta at gmail dot com) of Landis+Gry for
493 bringing this issue to our attention.
494 [ISC-Bugs #46427]
495
0e76cb91 496 Changes since 4.3.6b1
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502- The server now allows the client identifier (option 61) to own leases
503 in more than one subnet concurrently. Prior to this the server would
504 incorrectly release an existing lease in one subnet prior to assigning
505 a lease in another subnet. Note that the prior behavior can be still
506 be achieved by enabling one-lease-per-client. Thanks to both David Zych at
507 the University of Illinois and Norm Proffitt of Infoblox for reporting
508 the issue; and Norm for suggesting a solution.
509 [ISC-Bugs #41358]
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511- When replying to a DHCPINFORM, the server will now include options specified
512 at the pool scope, provided the ciaddr field of the DHCPINFORM is populated.
513 Prior to this the server only evaluated options down to the subnet scope.
514 Thanks to Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue.
515 [ISC-Bugs #43219]
516 [ISC-Bugs #45051]
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518- When memory allocation fails in a repeated way the process writes
519 "Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
520 [ISC-Bugs #32744]
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522- The new lmdb (Lightning Memory DataBase) bind9 configure option is
523 now disabled by default to avoid the presence of this library to be
524 detected which can lead to a link failure.
525 [ISC-Bugs #45069]
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527- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
528 as is done for BSD and OS-X. Prior to this the code would only recognize
529 the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
530 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE, and Wei
531 Kong at Novell, who all submitted patches.
532 [ISC-Bugs #28761]
533 [ISC-Bugs #31992]
534 [ISC-Bugs #25428]
535 [ISC-Bugs #31940]
536 [ISC-Bugs #32935]
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538- Fixed a bug in OMAPI that causes omshell to crash when a name-value
539 pair with a zero length value is shipped in an object. Thanks to
540 Fernando Soto at BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and
541 supplying the patch.
542 [ISC-Bugs #29108]
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544- On 64-bit platforms, dhclient now generates the correct value for the
545 script environment variable, "expiry", the lease expiry value exceeds
546 0x7FFFFFFF. Prior to this such values would produce negative values
547 for expiry in the script environment.
548 [ISC-Bugs #43326]
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550- Common timer logic was modified to cap the maximum timeout values at
551 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. Values larger than that were causing fatal timer out of
552 range errors on 64-bit platforms. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
553 reporting the issue.
554 [ISC-Bugs #28038]
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556- DHCP6 FQDN option unpacking code now correctly handles values that contain
557 spaces, special, or non-printable characters. Prior to this the buffer
558 size needed was underestimated causing a conversion error message to
559 be logged and DNS updates to be skipped. Thanks to Fernando Soto at
560 BlueCat Networks for bringing the matter to our attention.
561 [ISC-Bugs #43592]
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563- When running in -6 mode, dhclient can enforce the require option statement
564 and will discard offered leases that do not contain all the required
565 options specified in the client configuration. If not enabled the client
566 will still consider such leases. This must be enabled at compile time
567 (see ENFORCE_DHCPV6_CLIENT_REQUIRE in includes/site.h). Thanks to
568 Mritunjaykumar Dubey at Nokia for reporting the issue.
569 [ISC-Bugs #41473]
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571- Altered DHCPv4 lease time calculation to avoid roll over errors on 64-bit
572 OS systems when using -1 or large values for default-lease-time. Rollover
573 values will be replaced with 0x7FFFFFFF - 1. This alleviates unintentionally
574 short expiration times being handed out when infinite lease times (-1) in
575 conjunction with failover. Our thanks to Alessandro Gherardi for bringing
576 the issue to our attention.
577 [ISC-Bugs #41976]
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579- Added new compile time option --with-srv-conf-file which specifies a
580 default location of the server configuration file.
581 [ISC-Bugs #44765]
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583- Added --dad-wait-time parameter to dhclient. It specifies the maximum time,
584 in seconds, that the client process should wait for the duplicate address
585 detection to complete before initiating DHCP requests. This value is
586 propagated to the dhclient script and the script is responsible for waiting
587 the specified amount of time or until DAD has completed. If the script does
588 not support it, specifying this parameter has no effect. The default value
589 is 0 which specifies that the script should not wait for DAD. With this
590 change the following scripts have been modified to support the new parameter:
591 freebsd, linux, macos, netbsd, openbsd.
592 [ISC-Bugs #36169]
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594- The server nows checks both the address and length of a prefix delegation
595 when attempting to match it to a prefix pool. This ensures the server
596 responds properly when pool configurations change such that once valid,
597 "in-pool" delegations are now treated as being invalid. During lease
598 file loading at startup, the server will discard any PD leases that
599 are deemed "out-of-pool" either by address or mis-matched prefix length.
600 Clients seeking to renew or rebind such leases will get a response of
601 No Binding in the case of the former, and the prefix delegation with
602 lifetimes set to zero in the case of the latter. Thanks to Mark Nejedlo
603 at TDS Telecom for reporting this issue.
604 [ISC-Bugs #35378]
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606- Modified DDNS support initialization such that DNS related ports will only be
607 opened by the server (dhcpd) at startup if ddns-update-style is not "none";
608 by dhclient only if and when the it first attempts an update; and never by
609 dhcrelay. Prior to this all three always did the initialization at startup
610 which causes them to always open on and listen for traffic on two random
611 ports. Thanks to Rodney Beede for reporting this issue.
612 [ISC-Bugs #45290]
613 [ISC-Bugs #33377]
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615- Added error logging to two memory allocation failure checks. Thanks to Bill
616 Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) for reporting the issue.
617 [ISC-Bugs #41185]
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619- Corrected a dhclient -6 issue that caused the client to crash with an
620 "Impossible condition" error after de-preferencing its only IA binding.
621 The crash occurred when server configuration changes rendered the existing
622 binding out-of-range and no other leases were available to offer. Thanks
623 to Pierre Clerissi for bringing this issue to our attention.
624 [ISC-Bugs #44373]
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626- By defining CALL_SCRIPT_ON_ONETRY_FAIL in includes/site.h, dhclient will
627 now call the script with reason set to FAIL when run with -1 (one try) and
628 there are no server responses. This applies to IPv4 mode only. Thanks for a
629 patch by Martin Pitt which got to us via Andrew Pollock.
630 [ISC-bugs #18183]
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632- The server now detects failover peers that are not referenced in at least
633 one pool when run with the command line option for test mode, -T. Prior to
634 this the check was performed too far down stream to be detected in test mode.
635 [ISC-Bugs #29892]
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637- Linux script updated. The script is now based on Debian version. It uses
638 ip tool from iproute2 package and ifconfig is no longer used. This also
639 addresses an issue of calling arping with inappropriate parameter.
640 [ISC-bugs #19430]
641 [ISC-bugs #18111]
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643- Changed severity of the log message indicating UDP checksum errors in
644 the received packets from 'info' to 'debug' to avoid logging excessive
645 number of false positives when UDP checksum offloading is enabled.
646 [ISC-bugs #41757]
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648- The directory minires has been removed from the source tree. It has
649 long been obsolete for branches other than v4_1_esv. Additionally,
650 includes/minires.h was renamed includes/ns_name.h.
651 [ISC-bugs #45471]
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653- Replaced ifconfig parameters "add" and "delete" with "alias" and "-alias"
654 for IPv6 mode in the client scripts, netbsd and openbsd. This was
655 preventing IPv6 addresses from being added or removed from interfaces.
656 Thanks to Tim Dean for reporting this issue.
657 [ISC-bugs #31573]
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661- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
662 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
663 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
664 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
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666- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
667 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
668 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
669 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
670 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
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674- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
675 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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677- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
678 of circuit id length.
679 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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681- Add logic to test directory Makefiles to avoid copying Attfile(s)
682 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
683 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
684 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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686- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
687 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
688 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but not used
689 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
690 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
691 for reporting the issue.
692 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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694- In the LDAP code and schema add some missing '6' characters to use
695 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
696 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
697 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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699- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
700 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
701 a cut and paste error.
702 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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704- Modify the DDNS code to clean up the PTR record even if there
705 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
706 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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708- Added global configuration parameter, abandon-lease-time, which determines
709 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
710 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
711 enabled) prior to offering an abandoned lease to client. Our thanks to
712 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
713 with us to produce a viable solution.
714 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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716- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
717 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
718 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
719 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
720 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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722- Updates to contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to make it more friendly.
723 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
724 the "processing complete" output when creating machine readable
725 output. Thanks to Cameron Paine (cbp at null dot net) for the
726 patch.
727 [ISC-Bugs #42113]
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729- When reusing a lease for dhcp-cache-threshold return the hostname
730 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
731 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
732 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
733 verify the problem and fix.
734 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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736- Change dmalloc to use a size_t as the length argument to bring it
737 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
738 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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740- If the failover socket can't be bound, close it. Otherwise if the
741 user configures an incorrect address in the failover stanza the
742 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
743 it runs out.
744 [ISC-Bugs #42452]
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746- Add DHCPv4-mode, dhcrelay command line options, "-iu" and "-id", that
747 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
748 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
749 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
750 [ISC-Bugs #41547]
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752- Clean up some memory references in the vendor-class construct.
753 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
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761- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
762 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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764- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
765 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
766 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
767 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
768 keep the previous behavior.
769 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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771- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
772 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
773 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
774 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
775 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
776 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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778- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
779 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
780 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
781 address them.
782 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
783 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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785- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
786 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
787 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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789- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
790 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
791 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
792 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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794- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
795 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
796 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
797 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
798 not show a value.
799 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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801- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
802 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
803 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
804 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
805 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
806 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
807 he provided.
808 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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810- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
811 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
812 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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814- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
815 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
816 the issue and supplying the patches.
817 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
818 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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820- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
821 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
822 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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824- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
825 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
826 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
827 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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829- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
830 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
831 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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833! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
834 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
835 patch.
836 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
837 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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839- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
840 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
841 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
842 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
843 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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845- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
846 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
847 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
848 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
849 the software to fail.
850 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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852- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
853 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
854 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
855 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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857- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
858 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
859 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
860 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
861 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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863- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
864 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
865 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
866 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
867 update as an "invalid state transition".
868 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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870- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
871 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
872 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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874- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
875 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
876 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
877 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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879- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
880 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
881 modified to work as infinite.
882 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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884- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
885 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
886 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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888- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
889 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
890 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
891 option as per RFC 6939.
892 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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894- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
895 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
896 for cross compilation.
897 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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899- Add more option definitions.
900 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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902- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
903 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
904 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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906- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
907 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
908 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
909 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
910 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
911 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
912 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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914- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
915 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
916 feature.
917 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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919- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
920 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
921 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
922 relay.
923 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
924 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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926- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
927 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
928 Section 22.4.
929 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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931- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
932 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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934- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
935 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
936 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
937 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
938 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
939 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
940 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
941 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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943- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
944 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
945 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
946 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
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949 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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951- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
952 decoding a packet.
953 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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955- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
956 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
957 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
958 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
959 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
960 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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962! Add an option in site.h to limit the number of failover and control
963 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
964 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
965 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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973- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
974 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
975 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
976 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
977 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
978 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
979 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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981- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
982 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
983 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
984 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
985 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
986 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
987 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
988 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
989 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
990 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
991 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for this issue and his patch which
992 inspired the fix.
993 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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995- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
996 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
997 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
998 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
999 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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1002 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
1003 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
1004 a proper length for it.
1005 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
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1007- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
1008 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
1009 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
1010 reasonable to remove it.
1011 [ISC-Buts #39019]
1012
1013- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
1014 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
1015 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
1016 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
1017
1018- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
1019 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
1020 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
1021 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
1022 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
1023
1024- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
1025 table 3.
1026 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
1027
1028- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
1029 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
1030 the issue and suggesting the patch.
1031 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
1032
1033- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
1034 of as a token.
1035 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
1036
1037- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
1038 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
1039 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
1040 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
1041 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
1042 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
1043 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
1044
1045- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
1046 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
1047 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
1048 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
1049
1050- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
1051 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
1052 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
1053
1054- Corrected a crash in dhclient that occurs during lease renewal if the
1055 client is performing its own DNS updates. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1056 for the bug report.
1057 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
1058
1059- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
1060 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
1061 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
1062 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
1063 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
1064 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
1065 reporting the issue.
1066 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
1067
1068- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
1069 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
1070 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
1071 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
1072 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
1073 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
1074 itself.
1075 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
1076
1077- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
1078 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
1079 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
1080 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
1081
1082- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
1083 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
1084 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1085 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
1086
1087- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
1088 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
1089 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
1090 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
1091 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
1092
1093- Fixed a server crash that could occur when the server attempts to remove
1094 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
1095 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
1096 issue.
1097 [ISC-Bugs #39978]
1098
1099- LDAP Patches - Numerous small patches submitted by contributors have
1100 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
1101 In addition, two larger submissions have also been included. The
1102 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
1103 GSSAPI authentication. We would like to thank the following for their
1104 contributions (alphabetically):
1105 Alex Novak at SUSE
1106 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
1107 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1108 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
1109 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
1110 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
1111 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
1112 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
1113 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
1114 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
1115 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
1116 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
1117 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
1118 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
1119 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
1120 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
1121 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
1122 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
1123 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
1124
1125- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
1126 Thanks to Frédéric Perrin from Brocade for finding the issue
1127 and suggesting a patch.
1128 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
1129
1130 Changes since 4.3.2rc2
1131- None
1132
1133 Changes since 4.3.2rc1
1134
1135- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
1136 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
1137 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
1138 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
1139 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
1140
1141 Changes since 4.3.2b1
1142
1143- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
1144 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
1145 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
1146 the issue.
1147 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
1148
1149- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
1150 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
1151 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
1152 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
1153 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
1154 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
1155 tests.
1156 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
1157 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
1158 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
1159 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
1160 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
1161 use the command "make -k check".
1162 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
1163
1164 Changes since 4.3.1
1165
1166- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
1167 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
1168
1169- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
1170 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
1171 and hmac-sha512
1172 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
1173
1174- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
1175 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
1176 patch.
1177 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
1178
1179- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
1180 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
1181 provided the patch.
1182 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
1183
1184- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
1185 after the configuration file has been processed.
1186 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
1187
1188- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
1189 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
1190 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
1191 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
1192 compilers that was introduced by #36712
1193
1194- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
1195 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
1196
1197- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
1198 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
1199 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
1200 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
1201 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
1202 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
1203 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
1204
1205- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
1206 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
1207 bug report and patch.
1208 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
1209 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
1210 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
1211 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
1212 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
1213
1214- Addressed checksum issues:
1215 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
1216 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
1217 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
1218 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
1219 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
1220 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
1221 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
1222 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
1223 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
1224 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
1225 than being dropped.
1226 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
1227 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
1228
1229- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
1230 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
1231 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
1232 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
1233 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
1234 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
1235 inbound request to a known subnet.
1236 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
1237 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
1238
1239- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
1240 BOOTP request handling.
1241 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
1242
1243- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
1244 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
1245 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
1246 the patch upon which the fix is based.
1247 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
1248
1249- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
1250 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
1251 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
1252 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
1253 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
1254 modified to send requests more often.
1255 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
1256 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
1257
1258- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
1259 name from the following in order of preference:
1260
1261 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
1262 2. Host name option if provided by the client
1263 3. Configured option host-name if defined
1264
1265 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
1266 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
1267 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
1268 and no other value is available.
1269 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
1270
1271- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
1272 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
1273 corrected.
1274 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
1275 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
1276
1277- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
1278 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
1279 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
1280 components.
1281 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
1282
1283- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
1284 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
1285 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
1286 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
1287 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
1288 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
1289 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
1290 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
1291
1292- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
1293 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
1294 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
1295 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
1296 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
1297 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
1298 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
1299 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
1300
1301- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
1302 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
1303 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
1304 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
1305 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
1306 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
1307 bug and supplying a patch.
1308 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
1309
1310- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
1311 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
1312 leae expiration code.
1313 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
1314
1315- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
1316 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
1317 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
1318 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
1319 files.
1320 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
1321 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
1322
1323- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
1324 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
1325 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
1326 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
1327
1328- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
1329 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
1330 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
1331 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
1332 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1333 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
1334 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
1335 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
1336 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
1337
1338- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
1339 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
1340 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
1341 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
1342 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
1343 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
1344 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
1345 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
1346 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
1347
1348- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
1349 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
1350 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
1351 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
1352 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
1353 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
1354 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
1355 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
1356 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
1357 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
1358
1359- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
1360 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
1361 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
1362 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
1363 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
1364 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
1365 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
1366 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
1367
1368 Changes since 4.3.1b1
1369
1370- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
1371 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
1372 bug report and patch.
1373 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
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1375- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
1376 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
1377 code consistent across versions.
1378 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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1382- Tidy up several small tickets.
1383 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
1384 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
1385 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
1386 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
1387 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1388 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
1389 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
1390 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
1391 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
1392 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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1394- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
1395 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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1397- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
1398 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
1399 Popelka at Red Hat.
1400 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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1402- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
1403 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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1405- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
1406 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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1408- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
1409 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
1410 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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1412- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
1413 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
1414 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
1415 option in the list.
1416 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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1418- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
1419 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
1420 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
1421 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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1423- Remove unused RCSID tags.
1424 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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1426- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
1427 for MRT limit it to MRD.
1428 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
1429 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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1431- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
1432 when a server, relay or client are killed.
1433 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
1434 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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1436- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
1437 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
1438 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
1439 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
1440 given the "-1" argument.
1441 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
1442 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
1443 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
1444 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
1445 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
1446 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
1447 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
1448 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
1449 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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1451- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
1452 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
1453 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
1454 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
1455 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
1456 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
1457 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
1458 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
1459 to syslog.
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1461- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
1462 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
1463 number in syslog messages.
1464 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
1465 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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1467- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
1468 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
1469 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
1470 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
1471 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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1473- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
1474 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
1475 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
1476 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
1477 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
1478 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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1480- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
1481 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
1482 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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1484- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
1485 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
1486 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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1488- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
1489 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
1490 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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1492- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
1493 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
1494 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
1495 in a pool are used.
1496 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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1498- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
1499 on an error condition.
1500 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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1502- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
1503 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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1505- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
1506 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
1507 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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1512 Changes since 4.3.0b1
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1515 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
1516 a possible patch.
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1520
1521- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
1522 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
1523 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
1524 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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1528- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
1529 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
1530 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
1531 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
1532 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
1533 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 1534 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 1535 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 1536 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
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1539- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
1540 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
1541 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
1542
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1543- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
1544 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
1545 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
1546 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 1547 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 1548
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1549- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
1550 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
1551 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
1552 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
1553 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
1554 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
1555
a7341359 1556- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 1557 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 1558
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1559- Add support for using classes with v6.
1560 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
1561
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1562- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
1563 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
1564 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
1565 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
1566 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
1567 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
1568 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 1569 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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1571- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
1572 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
1573 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
1574 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
1575 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
1576 not recommended.
64fb661c 1577 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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1579- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
1580 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
1581 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
1582 This is "Server starting service.".
1583 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
1584 its failover peer are in the normal state.
1585 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 1586 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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1588- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
1589 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1590 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1591 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
1592 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1593 man page for a description.
1594 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
1595
e54ff84f 1596- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 1597 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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1598 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
1599 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1600 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1601 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1602 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
1603
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1604- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1605 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1606 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1607 one instance of their respective address types.
1608 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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1610- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1611 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1612 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1613 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1614 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1615 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1616 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1618- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1619 and take host declarations into account.
1620 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1621 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1622
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1623- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1624 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1625 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1626 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 1627
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1628- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1629 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1630 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1631
01a44a77 1632 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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1634- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1635 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1636
01a44a77 1637- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1638
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1639- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1640 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1641
01a44a77 1642- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1643
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1644- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1645 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1646 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1647 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1648 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1649 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1650
01a44a77 1651- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1652
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1653- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1654 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1655
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1656- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1657 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1658 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1659 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1660
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1661- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1662 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1663 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1664 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1665 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1666 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1667 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1668 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1669 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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1671- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1672 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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1674! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1675 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1676 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1677 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1678
01a44a77 1679- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1680
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1681- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1682 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1683 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1684 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1685 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1686
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1687- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1688 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1689 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1690 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1691 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1692
01a44a77 1693- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1694
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1695- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1696 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1697
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1698- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1699 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1700 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1701 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1702 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1703 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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1705- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1706 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1707
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1708 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1709 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1710
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1711 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1712 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1713
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1714 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1715 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1716
01a44a77 1717- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1718
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1719- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1720 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1721 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1722 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1723 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1724 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
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1726- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1727 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1728 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1729 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1730 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1731 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1732
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1733- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1734 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1735 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1736
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1737- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1738 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1739 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1740 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1741
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1742- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1743 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1744
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1745- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1746 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1747 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1748
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1749- Minor code fixes
1750 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1751 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1752 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1753 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1754 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1755 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1756 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1757 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1758 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1759 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1760 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1761 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1762
01a44a77 1763- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1764
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1765- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1766 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1767
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1768- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1769 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1770
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1771- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1772 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1773
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1774- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1775 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1776 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1777
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1778- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1779 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1780
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1781- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1782 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1783 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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1785- Fixes to lease input and output.
1786 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1787 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1788 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1789 characters.
1790 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1791 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1792
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1793- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1794 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1795 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1796 at Red Hat.
1797 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1798 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1799 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1800 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1801
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1802- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1803 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1804 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1805 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1806
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1807! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1808 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1809 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1810 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1812- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1813 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1814 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1815
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1816- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1817 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1818 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1819 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1820 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1821
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1822- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1823 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1824 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1825 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1826 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1827
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1828! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1829 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1830 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1831 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1832 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1833 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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1835- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1836 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1837 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1838
adb95d23 1839- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1840 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1841 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1842
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1843- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1844 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1845 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1846
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1847- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1848 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1849 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1850 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1851 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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1853- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1854 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1855 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1856 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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1858! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1859 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1860 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1861 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1862 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1863 and reset its timeout value.
1864 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1866- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1867 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1868 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1869 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1872 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1873 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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1875- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1876 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1877 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1878 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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1880- Some fixes for LDAP
1881 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1882 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1883 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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1885- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1886 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1887
1888! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1889 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1890 interfaces with the OS.
1891 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1892 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1894- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1895 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1897- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1898 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1899 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1900 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1901 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1902 in v6 mode at configure time.
1903 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1905- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1906 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1907 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1908 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1910- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1911 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1912 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1913 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1914 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1916- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1917 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1918 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1919 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1920 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1922- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1923 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1924 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1925 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1926 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1928- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1929 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1930 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1932- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1933 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1934 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1935 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1936 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1938- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1939 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1940 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1941
1942- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1943 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1944 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1946- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1947 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1948 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1949 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1950 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1951 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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1954 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1955 responses to the all-ones address.
1956 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1957 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1958
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1960 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1961 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1962 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1963
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1964- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1965 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1966
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1967- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1968 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1970
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1971- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1972 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1973 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1974 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1975 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1976 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1977 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1978 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1979 enable this except for testing purposes.
1980 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1981 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1982
c616de4f 1983- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1984 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1986- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1987
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1988- Client Script fixes
1989 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1990 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1991 the domain search address is link local.
1992 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1993 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1994 being changed.
1995
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1996- Documentation cleanup
1997 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1998
9a111ee8 1999- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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2000 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
2001
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2002- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
2003 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
2004 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
2005 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
2006
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2007- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
2008 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
2009 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
2010
7cfeb916
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2011- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
2012 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
2013
9a111ee8
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2014- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
2015 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
2016 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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2017 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
2018 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
2019 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
2020
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2021- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
2022 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
2023 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
2024 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
2025 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
2026 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
2027 in site.h then server will be terminated
2028 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
2029
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2030! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
2031 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
2032 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
2033 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
2034 One CVE number for each class of packet.
2035 CVE-2011-2748
2036 CVE-2011-2749
2037
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2038- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
2039 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
2040 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
2041 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 2042
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2043- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
2044 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 2045
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2046- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
2047 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 2048
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2049- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
2050 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 2051
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2052! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
2053 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
2054 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
2055 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
2056 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
2057 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 2058
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2059! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
2060 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
2061 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
2062 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
2063 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
2064 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
2065 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
2066 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
2067 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
2068 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
2069 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
2070 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 2071
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2072- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
2073 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
2074 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
2075 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 2076
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2077- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
2078 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
2079 from the DNS client code.
2080 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 2081
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2082- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
2083 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 2084
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2085- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
2086 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
2087 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
2088 some issues we found in the socket code.
2089 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 2090
01a44a77
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2091- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
2092 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
2093 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
2094 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 2095
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2096- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
2097 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 2098
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2099- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
2100 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
2101 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
2102 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
2103 weren't removed from the DNS.
2104 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 2105
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2106- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
2107 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
2108 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
2109 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 2110
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2111- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
2112 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
2113 dynamic bootp clients.
2114 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 2115
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2116- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
2117 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
2118 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
2119 handing it out.
2120 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
2121 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
2122 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
2123 for different IAs.
2124 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
2125 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 2126
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2127- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
2128 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
2129 an int as a boolean).
2130 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 2131
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2132- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
2133 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
2134 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
2135 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
2136 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
2137 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
2138 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
2139 may be removed in the future.
2140 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
2141 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 2142
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2143- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
2144 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
2145 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
2146 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 2147
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2148- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
2149 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
2150 report and the first version of the patch.
2151 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 2152
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2153- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
2154 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
2155 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
2156 for reporting this issue.
2157 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 2158
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2159- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
2160 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
2161 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
2162 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
2163 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
2164 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
2165 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
2166 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
2167 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
2168 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 2169
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2170! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
2171 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
2172 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
2173 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
2174 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
2175 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
2176 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
2177 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
2178 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 2179 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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2180 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
2181 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 2182
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2183! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
2184 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
2185 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 2186 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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2187 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
2188 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 2189
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2190! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
2191 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
2192 this issue.
2193 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
2194 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 2195
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2196- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
2197 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
2198 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
2199 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
2200 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
2201 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 2202
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2203! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
2204 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
2205 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
2206 New Zealand for finding this issue.
2207 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
2208 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 2209
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2210- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
2211 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 2212
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2213- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
2214 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
2215 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
2216 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
2217 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
2218 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 2219
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2220- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
2221 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
2222 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
2223 freed in other cases.
2224 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 2225
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2226- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
2227 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
2228 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
2229 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
2230 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
2231 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
2232 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
2233 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 2234
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2235- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
2236 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
2237 and patches.
2238 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 2239
9a111ee8 2240- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 2241 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 2242
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2243- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
2244 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
2245 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 2246
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2247- The client now passes information about the options it requested
2248 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
2249 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
2250 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
2251 variables.
2252 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 2253
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2254- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
2255 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
2256 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
2257 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
2258 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
2259 enabling it.
2260 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 2261
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2262- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
2263 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 2264
adb95d23 2265- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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2266 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
2267 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
2268 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
2269 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 2270
01a44a77
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2271- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
2272 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
2273 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
2274 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
2275 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 2276
01a44a77
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2277- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
2278 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 2279
01a44a77
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2280- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
2281 and comment out a currently unused test.
2282 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 2283
01a44a77
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2284- Address static analysis warnings.
2285 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 2286
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2287- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
2288 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 2289
01a44a77
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2290- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
2291 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 2292
01a44a77
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2293- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
2294 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 2295
01a44a77
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2296- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
2297 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
2298 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 2299
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2300- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
2301 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
2302 for the patch.
2303 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 2304
01a44a77
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2305- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
2306 objects.
2307 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 2308
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2309- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
2310 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
2311 to work more consistently.
2312 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 2313
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2314- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
2315 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
2316 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 2317
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2318- Update client script for use with openwrt.
2319 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 2320
01a44a77
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2321- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
2322 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
2323 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
2324 for the bug report and a potential patch.
2325 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 2326
01a44a77
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2327- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
2328 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 2329
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2330- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
2331 to the clients.
2332 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 2333
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2334- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
2335 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 2336
7aa153b8 2337
adbef119
DH
2338 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
2339
d340bc24
DH
2340- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
2341 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 2342 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 2343
0829d595
DH
2344- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
2345 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
2346 Cantrell at Red Hat.
2347
8a3c1e33
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2348- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
2349 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
2350
a41d7a25
PS
2351- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
2352
9e3eb22a
DH
2353- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
2354 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
2355 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
2356 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
2357 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
2358 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
2359
33ea4622
DH
2360- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
2361 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
2362 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
2363 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
2364 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
2365 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
2366 FQDN options by default).
2367
5a671e87
DH
2368- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
2369 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
2370 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
2371 determined lease time) are omitted.
2372
adb95d23 2373- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 2374 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 2375 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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DH
2376
2377- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
2378 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
2379 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
2380
59112e84
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2381 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
2382
62f6843d
MA
2383- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
2384
59112e84
SR
2385- Validate the argument to the -p option.
2386
47e6eb82
DH
2387- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
2388 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
2389 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
2390 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
2391 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
2392
159c89d7
EH
2393- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
2394
1aa0fe5e
DH
2395- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
2396 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
2397 had been deleted from configuration.
2398
cd51403d
SR
2399- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
2400 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 2401 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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SR
2402 were being ignored.
2403
64e1823d
DH
2404- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
2405
26e59ee9
DH
2406- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
2407 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
2408 Nordahl.
2409
70ea9345
PS
2410- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
2411 dhcpv6 disabled.
2412
8d7dca58 2413- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 2414 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 2415
f4534b17
DH
2416- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
2417 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
2418
f9453d21
DH
2419- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
2420 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
2421 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
2422
2423- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
2424 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
2425 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
2426 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
2427 fewer system calls.
2428
a3dcc0b1
DH
2429- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
2430 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
2431 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
2432 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
2433 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
2434 Christof Chen.
2435
95fd7038
DH
2436- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
2437 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
2438 and in normal state.
2439
2440- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
2441 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
2442
8a3c1e33
PS
2443- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
2444
2445- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
2446 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
2447 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
2448
dedde1ba
DH
2449- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
2450 rather than restarting the listener.
2451
a57df74a
DH
2452- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
2453 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
2454
2455- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
2456 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
2457 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
2458
350576c5
DH
2459- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
2460 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
2461 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
2462 timeouts).
2463
792156a9
DH
2464- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
2465 in failover state records.
2466
8a4e543b
DH
2467! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
2468 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
2469 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 2470 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 2471
a1308b64
DH
2472- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
2473 processing a DHCPINFORM.
2474
1b12d999
DH
2475- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
2476 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
2477 last option definition is used.
2478
d453265f
PS
2479- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
2480 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
2481 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
2482
3e29af1e
PS
2483- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
2484 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
2485
b8d45c67
DH
2486- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
2487 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
2488 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
2489 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
2490 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
2491 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
2492
583c1c16
DH
2493- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
2494 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
2495 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
2496 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
2497
e4e3a2ab
DH
2498! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
2499 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 2500
875e99dc
SR
2501- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
2502 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
2503
2267da84
DH
2504- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
2505 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
2506 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
2507 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
2508 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 2509 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
2510 configuration.
2511
cd3f0b9b
DH
2512- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
2513 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
2514
0493fdca
SR
2515- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
2516 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
2517 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
2518 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
2519
95bba8b6
SR
2520- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
2521 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
2522 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 2523 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 2524
adbef119 2525 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
2526
2527- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
2528 be recognized.
61d75ea2 2529
a4ffedd1
DH
2530 Changes since 4.1.0a2
2531
2532- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
2533 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
2534 "abandoned".
2535
6ff3b26d
FD
2536- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
2537
1387545f
DH
2538- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
2539 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
2540
2541- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
2542 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
2543
2544- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 2545 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 2546
399d3dbe
DH
2547- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
2548
fbcee149
DH
2549- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
2550 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
2551 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
2552 in future releases.
2553
f1672d89
DH
2554- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
2555 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
2556
236d3a99
DH
2557- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
2558 'dhclient -6' support.
2559
efa5e6b9
DH
2560- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
2561 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
2562 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
2563 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
2564
7d6180be 2565 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
2566
2567- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
2568
51e7687f
EH
2569- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
2570
20210a7b
EH
2571- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
2572 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
2573 only the latter. Fixed.
2574
535485df
EH
2575- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
2576
8fbb55ff
DH
2577- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
2578 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
2579
61220a00
EH
2580- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
2581
c40e954c
EH
2582- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
2583
63971a83
DH
2584- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
2585 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2586 --enable-early-chroot.
2587
66cebfcb
DH
2588- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2589 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2590
f8cbf390
DH
2591- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2592 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2593 parameter.
2594
8269561d
DH
2595- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2596 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2597
b445a411
DH
2598- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2599 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2600
bd72740e
FD
2601- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2602
9322442f
FD
2603- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2604
8dea7ba7
FD
2605- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2606
4619c0a2
DH
2607- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2608
9ac4206a
DH
2609- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2610 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2611 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2612
420d8b3f
FD
2613- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2614 support.
2615
40ec5f38
DH
2616- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2617 repaired.
2618
80097764
FD
2619- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2620
ffbaa880
FD
2621- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2622
7de20a95
EH
2623- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2624 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2625
d352732e
EH
2626- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2627 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2628
7d6180be
DH
2629- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2630 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2631
2632- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2633 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2634 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2635 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2636 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2637 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2638 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2639 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2640 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2641 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2642 shared-network.
2643
2644- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2645 configured option values.
2646
2647- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2648 support class statements.
2649
adb95d23 2650- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2651 selection were repaired.
2652
ecddae64
DH
2653- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2654 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2655 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2656 by the OS.
2657
2658- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2659 address.
2660
2661- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2662 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2663
d104d45b
DH
2664- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2665
2666- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2667
2668- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2669 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2670
01a54c17 2671 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2672
6d7f9584
FD
2673- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2674
4cafb815 2675- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2676 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2677
022fe95e
EH
2678- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2679 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2680 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2681
9a111ee8 2682- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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2683 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2684
aabfa4de
FD
2685- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2686
0674055a
FD
2687- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2688 reserved IDs avoided).
2689
b51c785f
FD
2690- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2691
900405e9
FD
2692- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2693 carries a rapid-commit option.
2694
96b620e5
FD
2695- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2696 an empty active lease.
2697
be62cf06
FD
2698- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2699
01a54c17
EH
2700- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2701 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2702 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2703 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2704
adb95d23 2705- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2706
2707- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2708 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2709 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2710 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2711 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2712 Christof Chen.
2713
2714 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2715
2716- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2717
2718- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2719 config file but -6 is not specified.
2720
2721- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2722
2723- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2724 be more helpful.
2725
2726- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2727 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2728 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2729
2730- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2731 was repaired.
2732
2733- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2734 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2735 been repaired.
2736
2737- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2738 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2739 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2740
49f61135
DH
2741- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2742 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2743
41d4652f
DH
2744- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2745 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2746 IPv4 address.
2747
2c9bf1f4
DH
2748- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2749 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2750 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2751 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2752 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2753
2754- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2755 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2756 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2757
cff9b78f
SK
2758- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2759
c4d29896
SK
2760- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2761
57fcb8d9
SK
2762- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2763 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2764 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2765 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
57fcb8d9
SK
2766 unnecessary logging.
2767
219a65eb
DH
2768- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2769 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2770
ffdf3c8c
DH
2771- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2772 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2773 is incompatible is printed.
2774
2775- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2776 a previously undefined option code.
2777
00a002fc
MA
2778- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2779 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2780
9a111ee8 2781- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2782 than the year 2000.
2783
e2cfde76
FD
2784- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2785
cabdb9b1
FD
2786- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2787
5d89d60f
FD
2788- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2789
61d75ea2
DH
2790 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2791
2792- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2793 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2794 configuration.
76db44f9 2795
e32529a5
EH
2796- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2797 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2798
9a111ee8 2799- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
76db44f9
SK
2800 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2801 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2802
9a111ee8
TM
2803- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2804 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
6f76de58
SK
2805 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2806 a requested address.
2807
703873ab
DH
2808- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2809 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2810 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2811 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2812
2813- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2814 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2815 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2816 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2817
b024480e
DH
2818- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2819 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2820 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2821
c0216cb7
DH
2822- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2823 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2824
1ac57173
FD
2825- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2826
83835822
DH
2827- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2828 codes through some conditions.
2829
c54db708
FD
2830- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2831 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2832
e5d83524
DH
2833- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2834 seemingly random values.
2835
821f2dda
DH
2836- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2837
f8b3c6f4
DH
2838- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2839 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2840 one ever has.
2841
9a111ee8
TM
2842- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2843 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
b9137d42
SK
2844 to a REQUEST.
2845
9f1d5a2f
DH
2846- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2847 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2848 level.
2849
e4a6be15
DH
2850 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2851
65cf86d7
EH
2852- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2853
b1d3778c
DH
2854- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2855 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2856 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2857 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2858 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2859
bead14ea
DH
2860- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2861 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2862 new address.
2863
f765ec36
SK
2864 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2865
75135a3f 2866- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2867 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
75135a3f
EH
2868 simultaneously on a single interface.
2869
5c2d55c7
EH
2870- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2871 of service under unusual server configurations
2872
2873- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2874
9a111ee8 2875- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2876 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2877
edb1283e
DH
2878- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2879 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2880 on every pool rebalance run.
2881
c71c6399
DH
2882- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2883 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2884
5279b8f3
DH
2885- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2886 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2887
ab3a540f 2888 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2889
9a111ee8 2890- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
884a458f
SK
2891 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2892
fa9b593d
DH
2893- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2894 point out the problem.
2895
9a111ee8 2896- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1b5053b5
SK
2897 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2898 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2899
c886c298
SK
2900- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2901 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2902
eaf7eb17
DH
2903- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2904 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2905 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2906
109e00db
DH
2907- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2908
9a111ee8 2909- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
3ad9d48f
SK
2910 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2911
8eab95f2
DH
2912- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2913 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2914 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2915 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2916
07b9a351
DH
2917- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2918
7285af30
DH
2919- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2920 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2921 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2922 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2923 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2924
2394b26b
DH
2925- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2926
ab3a540f
SK
2927 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2928
97050349
SK
2929- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2930 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2931
763cba6b 2932- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2933
237f8d3a 2934- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2935 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
237f8d3a
SK
2936 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2937
28868515
SK
2938- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2939
d00d373a
SK
2940- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2941 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2942
8dfd5744
DH
2943- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2944 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2945 loaded from persistent storage.
2946
45d545f0 2947- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2948 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2949 necessary.
2950
9a111ee8
TM
2951- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2952 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
f800f4f6
SK
2953 rapid-commit option.
2954
845e9677
DH
2955- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2956 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2957
76c944da
SK
2958 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2959
71765b58
SK
2960- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2961 and fix.
2962
847e7000
SK
2963- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2964
bda33169
SK
2965- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2966
9b21e73e
SK
2967- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2968 for when loading configuration.
2969
8da06bb1
DH
2970- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2971 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2972 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2973
dd328225
DH
2974- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2975 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2976 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2977 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2978
76c944da
SK
2979- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2980
f796f70a
DH
2981- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2982 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2983
c11f349d
EH
2984- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2985
af5fa176
EH
2986- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2987
2988- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2989 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2990
a546f2a7
EH
2991- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2992 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2993
b55d0d5f
EH
2994- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2995
26be82af
DH
2996- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2997 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2998
98bd7ca0
DH
2999 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
3000
d9b43370
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3001- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
3002
8c1752d2
DH
3003- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
3004 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
3005
98bd7ca0
DH
3006- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
3007
a512d11b
DH
3008- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
3009 initialized.
3010
3011- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
3012
3013- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
DH
3014 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
3015
3016- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 3017
4ba58919
DH
3018- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
3019
3020- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
3021 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
3022
3023- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
3024
8ea19a71 3025- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 3026 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
3027
3028- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
3029 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
3030
2cf8d0bd
DH
3031- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
3032
3033- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
3034
fe5b0fdd
DH
3035- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
3036
98bd7ca0
DH
3037 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
3038
3039- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
3040 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
3041 no support currently for both.
3042
3043- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
3044 IAADDR option.
3045
3046- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
3047 options.
3048
3049- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
3050
3051- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
3052 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
3053
3054- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
3055 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
3056 specifying type 1 or type 2).
3057
3058- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
3059 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
3060
3061- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
3062 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
3063 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
3064 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
3065 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
3066 differently, they both use the same code here).
3067
3068- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
3069 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
3070 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
3071
3072- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
3073
3074- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
3075 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
3076 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
3077 it should not intercept.
3078
1418fd11
DH
3079 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
3080
3081- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
3082 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
3083 between primary and secondary.
3084
3085- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
3086 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
3087 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
3088
aa3e348e
DH
3089- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
3090
e9c59645
DH
3091- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
3092 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
3093 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
3094 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
3095 or REQUEST messages.
3096
3097- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
3098 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
3099
c104546d
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3100- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
3101
b9d0cc05
DH
3102 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
3103
adb95d23 3104- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
DH
3105 failover protected subnets was removed.
3106
a512cc3a
DH
3107 Changes since 3.1.0b2
3108
3109- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
3110 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
3111 odd number of leases).
3112
3113- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
3114 rebalance run, and one after.
3115
3116- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
3117 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
3118 processing these messages.
3119
fe5b0fdd 3120 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 3121
74dc3e0b
EH
3122- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
3123 objects.
3124
1ba87b37
EH
3125- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
3126 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
3127 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
3128 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
3129 at Allianz.
3130
a58da042
EH
3131- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
3132 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
3133
61252edf
EH
3134- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
3135 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
3136
27837f95
DH
3137- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
3138 caused the server to abort.
3139
4d2eaafb
DH
3140- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
3141 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
3142 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
3143
06211b40
DH
3144- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
3145 by empty spaces would not get included.
3146
d6614ea2
DH
3147- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
3148 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
3149
132d38f2
DH
3150- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
3151 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
3152
fc3b9c90
DH
3153- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
3154 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
3155
c9feb859
DH
3156- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
3157 on the parameter request list.
3158
c57db45c
SK
3159 Changes since 3.1.0a3
3160
3161- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 3162
bd2bc2fa
DH
3163 Changes since 3.1.0a2
3164
3165- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
3166 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
3167
85edef5c
DH
3168- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
3169 domain-search option syntax.
3170
bdddcb7d
DH
3171 Changes since 3.1.0a1
3172
3173- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
3174 hash table was repaired.
3175
616d67cb
DH
3176- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
3177 entering normal state.
3178
3179- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
3180 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
DH
3181 'xid mismatch' log messages.
3182
3183- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
3184 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 3185
6708d944
DH
3186- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
3187 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
3188 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
3189 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
3190
45d545f0 3191- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
6708d944
DH
3192 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
3193 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
3194 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
3195 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
3196 to their needs.
3197
3198- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
3199 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
3200 run will attempt balance.
3201
a7ee93fe
DH
3202- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
3203
98311e4b
DH
3204 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
3205
3206- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
3207 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
3208 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
3209 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
3210
98bd7ca0 3211- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 3212 was introduced.
98311e4b
DH
3213
3214- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
3215 via OMAPI.
3216
a55ccdd0
DH
3217- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
3218 the protocol draft.
3219
98311e4b
DH
3220- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
3221 one does not already exist on the system.
3222
b43c87ad 3223- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 3224
0b17f049
DH
3225- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
3226 matches RFC 3074.
3227
2727c1cf
DH
3228- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
3229 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 3230 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 3231
febbd402
DH
3232- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
3233 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 3234 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 3235
ee912528
DH
3236- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
3237 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
3238 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
3239 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
3240
3241- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
3242 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
3243 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
3244 priority over the client's parameter request list.
3245
f7fdb216 3246- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 3247 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
f7fdb216
DH
3248 DHCPv6 support.
3249
5e864416
DH
3250- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
3251 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
3252 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
3253
b500bd4c
DH
3254- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
3255 have been incorporated.
3256
2426234f
DH
3257- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
3258 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
3259 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
3260 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
3261 that belong to the peer in need.
3262
3263- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
3264 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
3265
3266- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
3267 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
3268 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
3269
334bf491
DH
3270- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
3271 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
3272
3004bebf
DH
3273- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
3274 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
3275 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
3276 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
3277 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
3278
567e8561
DH
3279- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
3280 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
3281 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
3282 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
3283
a396d25f
DH
3284- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
3285 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
3286 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
3287 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
3288 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
3289 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
3290 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
3291 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
3292 ignoring this aspect of their request.
3293
dba5803b
DH
3294- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
3295 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
3296
41e45067 3297- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
6d103865
SK
3298 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
3299 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
3300 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
3301
41e45067
DH
3302- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
3303 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
3304 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
3305 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 3306
b543fea9
DH
3307- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
3308 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
3309 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
3310 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
3311 via Robin Breathe.
3312
b22de500
DH
3313- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
3314 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
3315 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
3316 from Christof Chen.
3317
96bbe8c5
SK
3318- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
3319 formally supported.
3320
b8221d95
DH
3321 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
3322
3323- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
3324 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
3325
c1e6c832
DH
3326 Changes since 3.0.5
3327
f546c28b
DH
3328- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
3329 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
3330 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 3331 they actually received.
f546c28b
DH
3332
3333- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
3334
c1e6c832
DH
3335- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
3336 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
DH
3337 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
3338 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 3339
75ab3070
DH
3340- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
3341
d69fb6a8 3342- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 3343 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 3344
02428754
DH
3345- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
3346 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
3347 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
3348 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
3349 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
3350 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
3351 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
DH
3352 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
3353
3354- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
3355 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
3356 'file' field.
02428754 3357
ecde99a3
DH
3358- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
3359 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
3360
67674ffb
DH
3361- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
3362 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
3363 a patch from Kevin Steves.
3364
830ebc4c
DH
3365- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
3366 from Chris Wagner.
3367
c759db75
DH
3368- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
3369 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
3370 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
3371
9aa3f3a5
DH
3372- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
3373 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
3374 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
3375 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
3376 was set.
3377
3d0c598a
DH
3378- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
3379 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
3380
d5b6835f
DH
3381- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
3382 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
3383 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
3384 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
3385 active ones.
3386
02428754 3387 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 3388
901306d5 3389- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
0a73b7b6
SK
3390 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
3391 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
3392 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
3393 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
3394
87a08ccc
DH
3395- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
3396 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
3397
6da113fb
DH
3398 Changes since 3.0.4
3399
3400- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
3401 scopes are actually global has been added.
3402
3403- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
3404 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
3405 known to be damaging.
3406
3407- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
3408 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
3409 balancing).
3410
dcc557db
DH
3411- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
3412 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
3413 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
3414
1b2ab55f
DH
3415- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
3416 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
3417 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
3418
e48891e8
DH
3419- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
3420 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
3421 more clear now.
3422
6cbc6629
DH
3423- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
3424 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
3425 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
3426 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
3427 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 3428 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 3429
c5fec5fa
DH
3430- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
3431 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
3432
33e1cb2b
DH
3433- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
3434 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
3435 made possible.
3436
2bddf829
DH
3437- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
3438 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
3439 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
3440
87578987
DH
3441- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
3442 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
3443
e77c575f
DH
3444- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
3445 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
3446 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
3447
2178df03
DH
3448- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
3449 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
3450 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
3451 value with the later configured value).
3452
d5341d9b
SK
3453- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
3454 have been named and documented.
3455
3456- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
3457 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
3458 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
3459 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
3460 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
3461 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
3462 write new output.
3463
6da113fb
DH
3464 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
3465
3466- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
3467 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
3468
3469 Changes since 3.0.4b3
3470
3471- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
3472 mailing list.
3473
88cd8aca
DH
3474 Changes since 3.0.4b2
3475
45d545f0 3476- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
88cd8aca
DH
3477 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
3478
3479- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
3480 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
3481
3482- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
3483 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
3484 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
3485 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
3486
3487- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
3488 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
3489 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
3490 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
3491 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
3492 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
3493 transition (properly).
3494
3495- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
3496
3497 Changes since 3.0.4b1
3498
3499- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
3500 STDIN after reading one line.
3501
3502- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
3503 descriptor it opened twice.
3504
3505- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
3506 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
3507 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
3508
3509 Changes since 3.0.3
3510
3511- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
3512 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
3513 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
3514
3515- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
3516 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
3517 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
3518
3519- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
3520 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 3521 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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3522 leases to allocate.
3523
3524- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 3525 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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3526 than the entire block of them.
3527
3a16098f
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3528! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
3529 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
3530 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
3531 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
3532 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
3533 to a patch from infamous42md.
3534
3535! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
3536 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
3537 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
3538 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
3539 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
3540 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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3541
3542- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
3543 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
3544 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
3545
3546- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 3547 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3548
3549- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
3550 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
3551 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
3552 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
3553 transitional states.
3554
3555- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
3556 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
3557 once it detects the old db does not exist.
3558
3559- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
3560 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
3561 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
3562
3563- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 3564 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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3565
3566- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
3567 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
3568
3569- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
3570 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
3571 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
3572
3573- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
3574 patch from 'infamous42md'.
3575
3576- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
3577 repaired.
3578
3579- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
3580 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
3581 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
3582 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
3583
3584- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
3585 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3586 data.
3587
3588- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3589 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3590 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3591 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3592 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3593
3594- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3595 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3596 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3597 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3598 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3599
3600- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3601 has been repaired.
3602
3603- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3604 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3605 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3606 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3607 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3608
3609- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3610 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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45d545f0 3612- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3613 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3614 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3615 move to 3.[01].x.
3616
3617- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3618 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3619
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3620 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3621
3622- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3623 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3624
3625- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3626 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3627 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3628 workaround.
3629
3630 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3631
3632- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3633 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3634
3635 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3636
3637- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3638 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3639 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3640
3641- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3642 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3643 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3644
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3645 Changes since 3.0.2
3646
3647- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3648 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3649 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3650
3651- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3652 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3653 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3654 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3655 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3656
3657- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3658 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3659 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3660
3661- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3662 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3663 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3664
3665- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3666 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3667 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3668 Peter Poeml.
3669
3670- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3671 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3672
3673- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3674 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3675 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3676 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3677 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3678 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3679
3680- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3681 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3682 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3683 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3684
3685- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3686 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3687 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3688 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3689
3690- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3691 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3692
3693- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3694 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3695 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3696
3697- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3698 7 bytes, and failover.
3699
3700- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3701 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3702 at Red Hat.
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3703
3704- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3705 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3706 should work better.
3707
3708- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3709 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3710 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3711
3712- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3713 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3714 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3715
3716 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3717
3718- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3719 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3720
3721 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3722
45d545f0 3723- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3724 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3725 overloading. This was repaired.
3726
3727- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3728 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3729 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3730 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3731 three chunks to fit.
3732
3733- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3734 were repaired.
3735
3736- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3737 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3738 leak).
3739
3740 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3741
3742- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3743 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3744
3745 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3746
3747- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3748
3749 Changes since 3.0.1
3750
3751- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3752 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3753 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3754
3755- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3756 name was not provided by the server.
3757
3758- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3759 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3760
3761- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3762 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3763
3764- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3765 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3766
3767- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3768
3769- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3770
3771- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3772 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3773 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3774 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3775 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3776
3777- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3778 the configuration be globally scoped.
3779
3780- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3781 Farkas.
3782
3783- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3784 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3785
3786- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3787 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3788
3789- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3790 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3791
3792- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3793 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3794 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3795 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3796
3797- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3798 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3799 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3800 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3801
3802- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3803 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3804 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3805
3806- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3807
3808- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3809 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3810 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3811
3812- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3813 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3814 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3815 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3816 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3817
3818- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3819 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3820
3821- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3822 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3823
3824- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3825 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3826 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3827 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3828
3829- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3830 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3831
3832- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3833 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3834 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3835
3836- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3837 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3838 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3839 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3840 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3841 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3842
3843- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3844 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3845 Infoblox.
3846
3847- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3848
3849- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3850 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3851 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3852 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3853 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3854 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3855 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3856
3857- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3858 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3859 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3860
3861- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3862 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3863 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3864
3865- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3866
3867 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3868
3869- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3870 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3871 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3872 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3873 systems either.
3874
3875- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3876
3877- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3878 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3879 is false.
3880
3881- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3882 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3883
3884- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3885
3886 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3887
3888! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3889 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3890 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3891 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3892 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3893 both finding and solving the problem.
3894
3895! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3896 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3897 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3898 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3899 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3900 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3901 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3902 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3903 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3904 published version of ISC DHCP.
3905
3906- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3907
3908- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3909
3910 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3911
3912- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3913 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3914 Richard Hirst.
3915
3916- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3917 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3918 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3919
3920- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3921
3922- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3923 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3924 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3925 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3926
3927- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3928 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3929
3930- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3931 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3932
3933- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3934
3935 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3936
3937- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3938 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3939
3940- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3941 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3942 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3943
3944- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3945 by name was fixed.
3946
45d545f0 3947- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3948 longer result in error.
3949
3950- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3951
3952- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3953 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3954 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3955
3956- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3957 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3958
3959- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3960 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3961 Blapp.
3962
3963- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3964 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3965 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3966 Martin Blapp.
3967
3968- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3969 expiry times in failover configurations.
3970
3971- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3972 Steve G.
3973
3974- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3975 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3976
3977- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3978 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3979 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3980 now "unknown-144".
3981
3982- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3983 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3984
3985 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3986
3987- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3988
3989- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3990 not be bash.
3991
3992- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3993
3994- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3995 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3996 that errored before will now work properly.
3997
3998- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3999 names was repaired.
4000
4001- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
4002 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
4003 configuration file.
4004
4005- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
4006 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
4007
4008- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
4009 error rather than a null dereference.
4010
4011 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
4012
4013- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
4014
4015- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
4016
4017- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
4018 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
4019
4020- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
4021
4022- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
4023
4024- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
4025 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
4026 self-corrupting lease databases.
4027
4028- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
4029
4030- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
4031 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
4032
4033- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
4034
4035- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
4036
4037- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
4038 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
4039 Ling Gou.
4040
4041- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
4042 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
4043
4044- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
4045 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
4046 Ted Lemon for the patch.
4047
4048- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
4049 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
4050
4051 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
4052
4053- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
4054 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
4055
4056- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
4057
4058- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
4059 a memory leak.
4060
4061- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
4062 script.
4063
4064- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
4065
4066- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
4067
4068- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
4069
4070- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
4071
4072- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
4073
4074- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
4075
4076- Increment the hop count when relaying.
4077
4078- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
4079
4080- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
4081
4082- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
4083
4084- Change the type of rbuf_max.
4085
4086- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
4087
4088 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
4089
4090- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
4091 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
4092 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
4093
4094 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
4095
4096- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
4097 to be renewed.
4098
4099- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
4100 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
4101
4102- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
4103 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
4104
4105- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
4106 that two permit lists matched.
4107
4108- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
4109 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
4110
4111- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
4112
4113- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
4114 requested it, contrary to the standard.
4115
4116- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
4117
4118- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
4119
4120- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
4121 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
4122 going to update its A record.
4123
4124- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
4125 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
4126 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
4127 DNS server.
4128
4129- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
4130
4131- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
4132
4133- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
4134 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
4135 NetBSD project).
4136
4137- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
4138 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
4139
4140- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
4141 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
4142
4143- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
4144
4145- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
4146
4147- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
4148 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
4149 failover protocol standard.
4150
4151- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
4152 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
4153 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
4154
4155- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
4156 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
4157 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
4158 do so.
4159
4160- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
4161
4162 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
4163
4164- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
4165
4166- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
4167 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
4168
4169- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
4170 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
4171
4172- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
4173 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
4174 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
4175
4176- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
4177 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
4178 network, merge the two pools.
4179
4180- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
4181 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
4182 fix this bug.
4183
4184 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
4185
4186- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
4187 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
4188
4189- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
4190 the same case.
4191
4192- Additional documentation.
4193
4194- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
4195 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
4196
4197 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
4198
4199- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
4200- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
4201
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4203
4204- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
4205 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
4206 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
4207 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
4208 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
4209
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4211
4212- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
4213 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
4214 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
4215 wasn't the one that removed it.
4216
4217- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
4218 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
4219 were not configured.
4220
4221- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
4222
4223- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
4224 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
4225 routing information.
4226
4227- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
4228 request being sent.
4229
4230- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
4231 done.
4232
4233- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
4234 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
4235 were pending.
4236
4237- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
4238 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
4239 problems with failover.
4240
4241- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
4242 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
4243 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
4244
adbef119 4245 Changes since 3.0
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4246
4247- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
4248 smash in the subclass allocation code.
4249
4250- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
4251 no object is open, it dumps core.
4252
4253- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
4254
4255- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
4256
4257- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
4258
4259- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
4260 a host object attribute with a null value.
4261
4262 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
4263
4264- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
4265
4266- Fix an obscure core dump.
4267
4268- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
4269 when crucial information is left out.
4270
4271- Log "no free leases" as an error.
4272
4273- Documentation updates.
4274
4275 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
4276
4277- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
4278
4279- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
4280 structure wasn't zeroed.
4281
4282- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
4283 incorrectly.
4284
4285- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
4286 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
4287 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
4288 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
4289 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
4290 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
4291 restarted.
4292
4293 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
4294
4295- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
4296 in failover-enabled pools.
4297
4298- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
4299 declarations).
4300
4301- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
4302 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
4303
4304- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
4305 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
4306
4307- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
4308
4309- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
4310 defined but not referenced by any pools.
4311
4312- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
4313
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4314 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
4315
4316- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
4317
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4318 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
4319
4320- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
4321
4322- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
4323
4324- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
4325
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4326 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
4327
4328- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
4329 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
4330 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
4331
4332- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
4333 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
4334 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
4335 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 4336 string.
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4337
4338- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
4339
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4340 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
4341
4342- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
4343 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
4344
4345- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
4346 malformed packets.
4347
4348- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
4349
4350- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
4351 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
4352 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
4353
4354- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
4355
4356- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
4357
4358- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
4359
4360- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
4361 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
4362
4363- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
4364 tcp connections from being played back.
4365
4366- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
4367 on exit.
4368
4369- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
4370
4371- Add some configurability to the build system.
4372
4373- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
4374
4375- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
4376 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
4377 hadn't been noticed until now.
4378
4379 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
4380
4381- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
4382 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
4383
4384- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
4385 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
4386 conformant, but also didn't work).
4387
4388- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
4389 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
4390
4391- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
4392 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
4393
4394- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
4395 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
4396
4397- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
4398 variables to leases via OMAPI.
4399
4400- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
4401 doing failover.
4402
4403- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
4404 running on alpha processors.
4405
4406- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
4407 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
4408
4409- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
4410
4411- Install omshell (including new documentation).
4412
4413- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
4414 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
4415
4416- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
4417
4418- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
4419 actually named (key names are domain names).
4420
4421- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
4422
4423- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
4424 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
4425
4426- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
4427 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
4428
4429- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
4430 statements.
4431
4432- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
4433 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
4434
4435- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
4436 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
4437 operating.
4438
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4439 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
4440
4441- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
4442 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
4443 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
4444 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
4445
4446- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
4447 using omapi to manipulate leases.
4448
4449- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
4450
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4451 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
4452
4453- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
4454 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
4455
4456- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
4457 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
4458 to the chain.
4459
4460- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
4461
4462- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
4463
4464- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
4465
98311e4b 4466- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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4467 attribute values in omshell.
4468
98311e4b 4469- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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4470
4471- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
4472
4473 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
4474
4475- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
4476 DHCPDECLINE.
4477
4478- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
4479
4480- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
4481 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
4482 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
4483
4484- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
4485
4486- Documentation fixes.
4487
4488- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
4489 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
4490
4491- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
4492 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
4493
4494- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
4495
4496- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
4497
4498- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
4499 case-insensitive.
4500
4501- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
4502
98311e4b 4503- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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4504 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
4505 consistently.
4506
4507- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
4508 systems with the probe not working correctly.
4509
4510- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
4511
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4512 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
4513
4514- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
4515 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
4516 result of duplicate leases.
4517
4518- Document OMAPI server objects.
4519
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4520 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
4521
4522- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
4523 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
4524
4525- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
4526 core dumps.
4527
4528- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
4529 Friedrich.
4530
4531- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
4532
4533 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
4534
4535- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
4536 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 4537 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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4538 billing class code.
4539
4540- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
4541 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
4542
4543- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
4544 trace file.
4545
79ea3de8 4546 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 4547
79ea3de8
TL
4548- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
4549 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
4550 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
4551 e.g., Digital Unix.
4552
4553- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
4554 when no error had occurred.
4555
4556- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
4557 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
4558 non-communicating state.
4559
4560- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
4561
4562- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
4563 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
4564 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
4565
4566- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
4567 when the client lease expired.
4568
4569- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
4570 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
4571 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
4572 in testing.
4573
4574- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
4575 the command line, it would fail.
4576
4577- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
4578 user impact).
4579
4580- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
4581
4582- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
4583 they're executable.
4584
4585 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4586
4587- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4588 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4589 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4590 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4591
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4592- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4593 Transmeta.
4594
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4595- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4596 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4597 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4598 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4599
4600- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4601 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4602
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4603 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4604
4605- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4606 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4607
4608- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4609
4610- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4611
4612- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4613
4614- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4615
4616- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4617
4618- Update some parts of the README file.
4619
4620- Support GCC on SCO.
4621
adbef119 4622 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
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4623
4624- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4625 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4626
4627- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4628 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4629 unbill the old class.
4630
4631- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4632 process the state transition immediately.
4633
4634- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4635 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4636
4637- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4638
4639- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4640
4641- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4642
4643- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4644
4645- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4646 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4647 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4648
4649- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4650 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4651
4652- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4653 lease file.
4654
4655- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4656
4657- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4658
adbef119 4659 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
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4660
4661- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4662 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4663
4664- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4665
adbef119 4666 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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4667
4668- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4669
adbef119 4670 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4671
4672- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4673
4674- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4675 pl19.
4676
4677- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4678 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4679 past the regression test.
4680
adbef119 4681 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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4682
4683- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4684 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4685
4686- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4687 DHCPREQUEST.
4688
4689- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4690
4691- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4692
4693- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4694
adbef119 4695 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 4696
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4697- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4698 (Damien Neil)
4699
4700- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4701 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4702
4703- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4704 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4705 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4706
4707- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4708 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4709 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4710 message.
4711
4712- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4713 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4714 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4715
98311e4b 4716- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4717 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4718 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4719 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4720 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4721 this way will work.
4722
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4723- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4724
4725- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4726 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4727 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4728 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4729
4730 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4731
4732 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4733
4734- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4735 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4736 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4737
4738- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4739 Hermann Lauer.
4740
4741- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4742 messages.
4743
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4744- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4745 it contained quoted strings.
4746
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4747 ** there was no pl17 **
4748
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4751- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4752 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4753 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4754 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4755 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4756 tracking down memory leaks.
4757
4758- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4759 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4760 Solaris.
4761
4762- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4763 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4764 corruption and core dumps.
4765
4766- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4767 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4768
4769- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4770
4771- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4772 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4773
4774- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4775 name and version to standard output.
4776
4777- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4778
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4779- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4780 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4781
6da9db9d
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4782- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4783
4784- Lots of documentation updates.
4785
4786- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4787 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4788
4789- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4790
4791- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4792 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4793
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4795
4796- Some documentation tweaks.
4797
4798- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4799
4800- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4801
4802- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4803 agent options into them.
4804
4805- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4806
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4807- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4808 options.
4809
adbef119 4810 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4811
4812- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4813 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4814 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4815 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4816 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4817
4818- Fix up documentation.
4819
4820- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4821 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4822
4823- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4824
4825- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4826
4827- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4828 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4829 practical use otherwise.
4830
4831- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4832 for debugging.
4833
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4835
4836- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4837 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4838 dump on some systems.
4839
4840- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4841 option.
4842
4843- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4844 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4845
4846- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4847 that were not printing enough information.
4848
4849- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4850 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4851
4852- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4853 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4854 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4855 were answering.
4856
4857- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4858 the transition.
9a111ee8 4859
2f2e7960 4860
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4862
4863- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4864
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4865 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4866
4867- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4868 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4869 representation from working correctly.
4870
4871- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4872 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4873 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4874 could spin.
4875
4876- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4877 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4878
4879- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4880 interface name on the command line.
4881
4882- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4883 client state.
4884
4885- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4886 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4887 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4888 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4889 added by Ted Lemon.
4890
4891- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4892 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4893
4894- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4895 end option.
4896
4897- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4898 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4899 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4900
4901- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4902 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4903 face of a null hardware address on input.
4904
4905- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4906 specified unqualified.
4907
4908- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4909 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4910
4911- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4912 RFC.
4913
4914- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4915
4916- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4917
4918- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4919 it works.
4920
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4921 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4922
4923- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4924 to CVS.
4925
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4926 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4927
4928- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4929
4930- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4931 in patchlevel 9.
4932
4933- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4934 options at renewal time.
4935
4936- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4937 configuration language.
4938
4939- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4940
4941- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4942 done when no client hostname was received.
4943
4944- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4945
4946- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4947 the DHCP option space.
4948
4949- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4950
4951- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4952 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4953
4954- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4955 silently dropped.
4956
4957- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4958 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4959
4960- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4961 will be correctly updated.
4962
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4963 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4964
4965- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4966 bounds-checking.
4967
4968 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4969
4970- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4971
3922772a 4972 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 4973
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4974- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4975 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4976 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4977
4978- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4979 option.
4980
4981- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4982 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4983 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4984 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4985 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4986 meaningfully.
4987
4988- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4989 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4990 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4991
4992- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4993 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4994 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4995 this one down!
4996
4997- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4998 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4999 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
5000 down and fixing this problem.
5001
5002 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
5003
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5004- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
5005 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
5006
5007- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
5008 environment.
5009
5010- Fix suffix operator.
5011
5012- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
5013
5014- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
5015 connection code.
5016
5017- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
5018
5019- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
5020
5021- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
5022 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
5023
5024- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
5025
5026- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
5027
5028- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
5029 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
5030
5031- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
5032 spawn with.
5033
5034- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
5035 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
5036
5037- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
5038 for OMAPI.
5039
5040- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
5041 can install in host declarations.
5042
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5043 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
5044
5045- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
5046 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
5047 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
5048 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
5049 comments)!
5050
5051- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
5052
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5053- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
5054 request for help on this with patches!
5055
5056- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
5057 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
5058 lost, they never reconnect.
5059
5060- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
5061 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
5062
5063- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
5064 dump.
5065
5066- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
5067 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
5068 catching this one.
5069
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5070 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
5071
5072- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 5073 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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5074 lease renewal time.
5075
5076- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
5077 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
5078 declared without a key.
5079
5080- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
5081
5082- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
5083 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
5084
5085- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
5086 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
5087 determine the maximum size of the response.
5088
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5089 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
5090
359b023e
TL
5091- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
5092 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
5093
592d8153
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5094- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
5095 RENEWING client.
5096
5097- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
5098
5099- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
5100 using memcmp().
5101
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5102 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
5103
5104- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
5105 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
5106 pointing this out.
5107
5108- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
5109 exit.
5110
5111- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
5112
5113- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
5114 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.