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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
01a44a77 2 Version 4.3.1-pre-beta
8c532cdd 3 3 February 2014
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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80778e94 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the suport for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
57187138 55 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 56
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57- Tidy up several small tickets
58 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
59 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
60 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
61 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
62 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
63 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
64 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
65 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
66 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
67 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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69- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
71
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72- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
73 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
74 Popelka at Red Hat.
75 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
76
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77- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
78 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
79
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80- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE
81 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
82
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83- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
84 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
85 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
86
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87- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID
88 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
89 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
90 option in the list.
91 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
92
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93- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
94 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
95 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 96 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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98- Remove unused RCSID tags.
99 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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101- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
102 for MRT limit it to MRD.
103 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
104 [ISC-Bugs #21238
105
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106- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
107 when a server, relay or client are killed.
108 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
109 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
110
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111- Some minor cleanups in the client code
112 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list
113 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
114 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
115 given the "-1" argument.
116 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
117 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
118 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
119 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
120 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
121 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
122 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
123 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
124 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
125
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126- Several updates to the dhcp server code
127 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
128 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
129 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
130 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
131 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug and fix.
132 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
133 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
134 to syslog.
135
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136- Add the "enable-log-pid" option to the configure script. When enabled
137 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
138 number in syslog messages.
139 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
140 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
141
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142- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
143 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
144 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
145 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
63c8800c 146 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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148- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
149 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
150 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
151 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
152 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
153 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
154
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155- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
156 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
157 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
158
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159- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
160 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
161 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
162
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163- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
164 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
165 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
166
a89fd0cd 167- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
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168 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
169 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
170 in a pool are used.
171 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
172
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173 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
174
175- None
176 Changes since 4.3.0b1
177
178- Tidy up receive packet processing.
179 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
180 a possible patch.
181 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
182
183 Changes since 4.3.0a1
184
185- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
186 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
187 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
188 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
189
190- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
191 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
192
6980ae03 193 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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195- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
196 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
197 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
198 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
199 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
200 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 201 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 202 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 203 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 204 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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206- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
207 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
208 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
209
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210- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
211 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
212 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
213 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 214 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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216- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
217 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
218 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
219 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
220 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
221 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
222
a7341359 223- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 224 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 225
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226- Add support for using classes with v6.
227 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
228
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229- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
230 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
231 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
232 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
233 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
234 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
235 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 236 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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238- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
239 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
240 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
241 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
242 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
243 not recommended.
64fb661c 244 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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246- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
247 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
248 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
249 This is "Server starting service.".
250 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
251 its failover peer are in the normal state.
252 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 253 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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255- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
256 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
257 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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258 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
259 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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260 man page for a description.
261 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
262
e54ff84f 263- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 264 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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265 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
266 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
267 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
268 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
269 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
270
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271- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
272 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
273 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
274 one instance of their respective address types.
275 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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277- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
278 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
279 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
280 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 281 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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282 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
283 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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285- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
286 and take host declarations into account.
287 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
288 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
289
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290- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
291 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
292 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
293 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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295- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
296 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 297 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 299 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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301- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
302 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 303
01a44a77 304- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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306- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
307 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 308
01a44a77 309- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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311- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
312 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
313 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
314 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
315 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
316 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 318- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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320- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
321 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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323- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
324 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
325 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
326 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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328- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
329 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
330 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
331 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
332 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
333 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
334 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
335 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
336 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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338- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
339 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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341! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
342 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
343 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
344 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 345
01a44a77 346- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 347
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348- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
349 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
350 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
351 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
352 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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354- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
355 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
356 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
357 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
358 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
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01a44a77 360- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 361
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362- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
363 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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365- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
366 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
367 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
368 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
369 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
370 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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372- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
373 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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375 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
376 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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378 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
379 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
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381 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
382 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 383
01a44a77 384- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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386- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
387 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
388 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
389 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
390 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
391 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 392
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393- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
394 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
395 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
396 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
397 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
398 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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400- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
401 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
402 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
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404- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
405 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
406 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
407 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 408
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409- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
410 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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412- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
413 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
414 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 415
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416- Minor code fixes
417 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
418 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
419 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
420 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
421 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
422 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
423 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
424 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
425 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
426 Thanks to Martin Pala.
427 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
428 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 429
01a44a77 430- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
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432- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
433 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
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435- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
436 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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438- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
439 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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441- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
442 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
443 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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445- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
446 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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448- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
449 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
450 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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452- Fixes to lease input and output.
453 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
454 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
455 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
456 characters.
457 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
458 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 459
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460- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
461 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
462 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
463 at Red Hat.
464 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
465 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
466 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
467 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
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469- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
470 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
471 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
472 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 473
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474! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
475 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
476 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
477 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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479- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
480 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
481 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 482
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483- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
484 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
485 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
486 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
487 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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489- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
490 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
491 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
492 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
493 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 494
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496 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
497 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
498 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
499 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
500 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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502- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
503 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
504 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 505
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506- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
507 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
508 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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510- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
511 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
512 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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514- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
515 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
516 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
517 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
518 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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520- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
521 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
522 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
523 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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525! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
526 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
527 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
528 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
529 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
530 and reset its timeout value.
531 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
532
533- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
534 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
535 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
536 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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538 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
539 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
540 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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542- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
543 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
544 when removing the ddns information.
545 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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547- Some fixes for LDAP
548 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
549 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
550 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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552- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
553 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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554
555! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
556 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
557 interfaces with the OS.
558 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
559 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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560
561- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
562 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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563
564- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
565 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
566 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
567 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
568 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
569 in v6 mode at configure time.
570 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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572- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
573 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
574 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 575 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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577- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
578 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
579 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
580 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 581 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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583- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
584 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
585 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
586 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 587 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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589- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
590 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
591 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
592 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 593 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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595- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
596 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 597 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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599- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
600 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
601 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
602 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 603 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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605- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
606 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
607 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
608
609- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
610 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
611 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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613- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
614 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
615 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
616 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
617 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
618 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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620- Documentation fixes
621 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
622 responses to the all-ones address.
623 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
624 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
625
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626- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
627 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
628 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
629 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
630
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631- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
632 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
633
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634- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
635 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
636 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
637
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638- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
639 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
640 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
641 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
642 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
643 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
644 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
645 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
646 enable this except for testing purposes.
647 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
648 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
649
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650- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
651 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
652
653- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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655- Client Script fixes
656 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
657 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
658 the domain search address is link local.
659 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
660 case of the default router information being changed without the address
661 being changed.
662
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663- Documentation cleanup
664 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
665
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666- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
667 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
668
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669- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
670 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
671 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
672 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
673
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674- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
675 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
676 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
677
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678- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
679 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
680
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681- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
682 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
683 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
684 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
685 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
686 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
687
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688- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
689 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
690 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
691 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
692 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
693 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
694 in site.h then server will be terminated
695 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
696
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697! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
698 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
699 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
700 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
701 One CVE number for each class of packet.
702 CVE-2011-2748
703 CVE-2011-2749
704
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705- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
706 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
707 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
708 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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710- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
711 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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713- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
714 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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716- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
717 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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719! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
720 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
721 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
722 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
723 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
724 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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726! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
727 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
728 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
729 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
730 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
731 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
732 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
733 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
734 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
735 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
736 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
737 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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739- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
740 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
741 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
742 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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744- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
745 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
746 from the DNS client code.
747 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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749- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
750 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
751
752- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
753 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
754 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
755 some issues we found in the socket code.
756 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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758- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
759 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
760 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
761 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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763- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
764 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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766- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
767 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
768 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
769 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
770 weren't removed from the DNS.
771 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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773- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
774 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
775 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
776 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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778- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
779 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
780 dynamic bootp clients.
781 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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783- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
784 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
785 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
786 handing it out.
787 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
788 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
789 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
790 for different IAs.
791 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
792 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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794- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
795 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
796 an int as a boolean).
797 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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799- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
800 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
801 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
802 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
803 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
804 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
805 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
806 may be removed in the future.
807 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
808 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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810- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
811 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
812 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
813 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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815- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
816 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
817 report and the first version of the patch.
818 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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820- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
821 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
822 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
823 for reporting this issue.
824 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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826- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
827 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
828 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
829 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
830 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
831 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
832 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
833 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
834 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
835 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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837! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
838 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
839 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
840 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
841 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
842 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
843 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
844 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
845 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
846 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
847 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
848 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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850! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
851 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
852 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
853 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
854 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
855 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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857! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
858 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
859 this issue.
860 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
861 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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863- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
864 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
865 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
866 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
867 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
868 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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870! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
871 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
872 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
873 New Zealand for finding this issue.
874 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
875 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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877- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
878 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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880- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
881 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
882 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
883 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
884 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
885 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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887- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
888 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
889 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
890 freed in other cases.
891 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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893- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
894 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
895 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
896 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
897 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
898 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
899 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
900 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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902- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
903 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
904 and patches.
905 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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907- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
908 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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910- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
911 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
912 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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914- The client now passes information about the options it requested
915 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
916 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
917 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
918 variables.
919 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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921- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
922 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
923 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
924 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
925 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
926 enabling it.
927 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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929- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
930 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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932- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
933 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
934 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
935 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
936 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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938- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
939 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
940 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
941 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
942 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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944- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
945 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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947- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
948 and comment out a currently unused test.
949 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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951- Address static analysis warnings.
952 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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954- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
955 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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957- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
958 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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960- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
961 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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963- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
964 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
965 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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967- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
968 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
969 for the patch.
970 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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972- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
973 objects.
974 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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976- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
977 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
978 to work more consistently.
979 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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981- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
982 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
983 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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985- Update client script for use with openwrt.
986 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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988- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
989 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
990 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
991 for the bug report and a potential patch.
992 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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994- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
995 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
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997- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
998 to the clients.
999 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1000
01a44a77
SR
1001- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1002 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1003
7aa153b8 1004
adbef119
DH
1005 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1006
d340bc24
DH
1007- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1008 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1009 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1010
0829d595
DH
1011- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1012 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1013 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1014
8a3c1e33
PS
1015- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1016 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1017
a41d7a25
PS
1018- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1019
9e3eb22a
DH
1020- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1021 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1022 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1023 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1024 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1025 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1026
33ea4622
DH
1027- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1028 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1029 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1030 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1031 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1032 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1033 FQDN options by default).
1034
5a671e87
DH
1035- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1036 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1037 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1038 determined lease time) are omitted.
1039
98bf1607 1040- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 1041 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1042 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
DH
1043
1044- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1045 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1046 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1047
59112e84
SR
1048 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1049
62f6843d
MA
1050- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1051
59112e84
SR
1052- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1053
47e6eb82
DH
1054- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1055 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1056 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1057 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1058 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1059
159c89d7
EH
1060- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1061
1aa0fe5e
DH
1062- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1063 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1064 had been deleted from configuration.
1065
cd51403d
SR
1066- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1067 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1068 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
1069 were being ignored.
1070
64e1823d
DH
1071- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1072
26e59ee9
DH
1073- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1074 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1075 Nordahl.
1076
70ea9345
PS
1077- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1078 dhcpv6 disabled.
1079
8d7dca58 1080- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1081 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1082
f4534b17
DH
1083- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1084 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1085
f9453d21
DH
1086- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1087 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1088 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1089
1090- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1091 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1092 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1093 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1094 fewer system calls.
1095
a3dcc0b1
DH
1096- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1097 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1098 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1099 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1100 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1101 Christof Chen.
1102
95fd7038
DH
1103- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1104 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1105 and in normal state.
1106
1107- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1108 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1109
8a3c1e33
PS
1110- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1111
1112- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1113 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1114 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1115
dedde1ba
DH
1116- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1117 rather than restarting the listener.
1118
a57df74a
DH
1119- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1120 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1121
1122- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1123 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1124 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1125
350576c5
DH
1126- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1127 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1128 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1129 timeouts).
1130
792156a9
DH
1131- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1132 in failover state records.
1133
8a4e543b
DH
1134! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1135 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1136 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1137 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1138
a1308b64
DH
1139- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1140 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1141
1b12d999
DH
1142- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1143 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1144 last option definition is used.
1145
d453265f
PS
1146- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1147 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1148 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1149
3e29af1e
PS
1150- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1151 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1152
b8d45c67
DH
1153- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1154 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1155 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1156 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1157 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1158 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1159
583c1c16
DH
1160- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1161 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1162 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1163 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1164
e4e3a2ab
DH
1165! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1166 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1167
875e99dc
SR
1168- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1169 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1170
2267da84
DH
1171- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1172 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1173 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1174 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1175 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1176 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1177 configuration.
1178
cd3f0b9b
DH
1179- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1180 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1181
0493fdca
SR
1182- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1183 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1184 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1185 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1186
95bba8b6
SR
1187- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1188 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1189 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1190 was always properly set.
1191
adbef119 1192 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1193
1194- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1195 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1196
a4ffedd1
DH
1197 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1198
1199- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1200 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1201 "abandoned".
1202
6ff3b26d
FD
1203- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1204
1387545f
DH
1205- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1206 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1207
1208- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1209 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1210
1211- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1212 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1213
399d3dbe
DH
1214- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1215
fbcee149
DH
1216- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1217 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1218 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1219 in future releases.
1220
f1672d89
DH
1221- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1222 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1223
236d3a99
DH
1224- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1225 'dhclient -6' support.
1226
efa5e6b9
DH
1227- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1228 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1229 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1230 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1231
7d6180be 1232 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1233
1234- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1235
51e7687f
EH
1236- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1237
20210a7b
EH
1238- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1239 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1240 only the latter. Fixed.
1241
535485df
EH
1242- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1243
8fbb55ff
DH
1244- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1245 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1246
61220a00
EH
1247- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1248
c40e954c
EH
1249- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1250
63971a83
DH
1251- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1252 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1253 --enable-early-chroot.
1254
66cebfcb
DH
1255- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1256 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1257
f8cbf390
DH
1258- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1259 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1260 parameter.
1261
8269561d
DH
1262- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1263 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1264
b445a411
DH
1265- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1266 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1267
bd72740e
FD
1268- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1269
9322442f
FD
1270- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1271
8dea7ba7
FD
1272- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1273
4619c0a2
DH
1274- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1275
9ac4206a
DH
1276- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1277 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1278 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1279
420d8b3f
FD
1280- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1281 support.
1282
40ec5f38
DH
1283- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1284 repaired.
1285
80097764
FD
1286- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1287
ffbaa880
FD
1288- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1289
7de20a95
EH
1290- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1291 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1292
d352732e
EH
1293- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1294 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1295
7d6180be
DH
1296- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1297 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1298
1299- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1300 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1301 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1302 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1303 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1304 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1305 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1306 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1307 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1308 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1309 shared-network.
1310
1311- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1312 configured option values.
1313
1314- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1315 support class statements.
1316
dd484ced
DH
1317- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1318 selection were repaired.
1319
ecddae64
DH
1320- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1321 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1322 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1323 by the OS.
1324
1325- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1326 address.
1327
1328- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1329 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1330
d104d45b
DH
1331- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1332
1333- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1334
1335- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1336 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1337
01a54c17 1338 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1339
6d7f9584
FD
1340- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1341
4cafb815 1342- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1343 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1344
022fe95e
EH
1345- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1346 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1347 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1348
1dcc3612
SK
1349- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1350 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1351
aabfa4de
FD
1352- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1353
0674055a
FD
1354- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1355 reserved IDs avoided).
1356
b51c785f
FD
1357- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1358
900405e9
FD
1359- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1360 carries a rapid-commit option.
1361
96b620e5
FD
1362- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1363 an empty active lease.
1364
be62cf06
FD
1365- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1366
01a54c17
EH
1367- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1368 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1369 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1370 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1371
1372- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1373
1374- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1375 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1376 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1377 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1378 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1379 Christof Chen.
1380
1381 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1382
1383- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1384
1385- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1386 config file but -6 is not specified.
1387
1388- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1389
1390- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1391 be more helpful.
1392
1393- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1394 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1395 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1396
1397- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1398 was repaired.
1399
1400- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1401 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1402 been repaired.
1403
1404- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1405 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1406 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1407
49f61135
DH
1408- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1409 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1410
41d4652f
DH
1411- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1412 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1413 IPv4 address.
1414
2c9bf1f4
DH
1415- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1416 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1417 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1418 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1419 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1420
1421- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1422 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1423 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1424
cff9b78f
SK
1425- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1426
c4d29896
SK
1427- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1428
57fcb8d9
SK
1429- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1430 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1431 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1432 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1433 unnecessary logging.
1434
219a65eb
DH
1435- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1436 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1437
ffdf3c8c
DH
1438- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1439 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1440 is incompatible is printed.
1441
1442- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1443 a previously undefined option code.
1444
00a002fc
MA
1445- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1446 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1447
7e9f7a1b
FD
1448- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1449 than the year 2000.
1450
e2cfde76
FD
1451- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1452
cabdb9b1
FD
1453- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1454
5d89d60f
FD
1455- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1456
61d75ea2
DH
1457 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1458
1459- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1460 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1461 configuration.
76db44f9 1462
e32529a5
EH
1463- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1464 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1465
76db44f9
SK
1466- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1467 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1468 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1469
6f76de58
SK
1470- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1471 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1472 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1473 a requested address.
1474
703873ab
DH
1475- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1476 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1477 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1478 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1479
1480- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1481 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1482 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1483 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1484
b024480e
DH
1485- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1486 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1487 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1488
c0216cb7
DH
1489- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1490 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1491
1ac57173
FD
1492- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1493
83835822
DH
1494- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1495 codes through some conditions.
1496
c54db708
FD
1497- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1498 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1499
e5d83524
DH
1500- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1501 seemingly random values.
1502
821f2dda
DH
1503- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1504
f8b3c6f4
DH
1505- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1506 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1507 one ever has.
1508
b9137d42
SK
1509- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1510 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1511 to a REQUEST.
1512
9f1d5a2f
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1513- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1514 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1515 level.
1516
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1517 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1518
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1519- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1520
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1521- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1522 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1523 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1524 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1525 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1526
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1527- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1528 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1529 new address.
1530
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1531 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1532
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1533- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1534 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1535 simultaneously on a single interface.
1536
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1537- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1538 of service under unusual server configurations
1539
1540- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1541
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1542- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1543 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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1545- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1546 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1547 on every pool rebalance run.
1548
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1549- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1550 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1551
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1552- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1553 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1554
ab3a540f 1555 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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1557- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1558 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1559
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1560- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1561 point out the problem.
1562
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1563- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1564 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1565 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1566
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1567- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1568 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1569
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1570- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1571 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1572 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1573
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1574- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1575
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1576- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1577 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1578
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1579- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1580 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1581 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1582 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1583
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1584- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1585
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1586- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1587 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1588 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1589 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1590 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1591
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1592- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1593
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1594 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1595
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1596- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1597 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1598
763cba6b 1599- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1600
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1601- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1602 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1603 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1604
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1605- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1606
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1607- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1608 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1609
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1610- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1611 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1612 loaded from persistent storage.
1613
45d545f0 1614- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1615 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1616 necessary.
1617
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1618- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1619 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1620 rapid-commit option.
1621
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1622- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1623 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1624
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1625 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1626
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1627- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1628 and fix.
1629
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1630- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1631
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1632- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1633
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1634- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1635 for when loading configuration.
1636
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1637- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1638 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1639 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1640
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1641- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1642 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1643 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1644 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1645
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1646- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1647
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1648- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1649 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1650
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1651- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1652
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1653- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1654
1655- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1656 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1657
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1658- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1659 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1660
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1661- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1662
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1663- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1664 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1665
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1666 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1667
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1668- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1669
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1670- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1671 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1672
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1673- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1674
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1675- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1676 initialized.
1677
1678- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1679
1680- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1681 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1682
1683- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1685- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1686
1687- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1688 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1689
1690- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1691
8ea19a71 1692- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1693 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1694
1695- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1696 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1697
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1698- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1699
1700- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1701
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1702- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1703
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1704 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1705
1706- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1707 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1708 no support currently for both.
1709
1710- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1711 IAADDR option.
1712
1713- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1714 options.
1715
1716- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1717
1718- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1719 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1720
1721- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1722 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1723 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1724
1725- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1726 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1727
1728- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1729 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1730 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1731 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1732 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1733 differently, they both use the same code here).
1734
1735- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1736 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1737 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1738
1739- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1740
1741- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1742 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1743 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1744 it should not intercept.
1745
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1746 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1747
1748- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1749 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1750 between primary and secondary.
1751
1752- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1753 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1754 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1755
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1756- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1757
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1758- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1759 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1760 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1761 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1762 or REQUEST messages.
1763
1764- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1765 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1766
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1767- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1768
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1769 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1770
1771- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1772 failover protected subnets was removed.
1773
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1774 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1775
1776- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1777 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1778 odd number of leases).
1779
1780- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1781 rebalance run, and one after.
1782
1783- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1784 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1785 processing these messages.
1786
fe5b0fdd 1787 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1789- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1790 objects.
1791
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1792- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1793 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1794 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1795 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1796 at Allianz.
1797
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1798- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1799 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1800
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1801- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1802 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1803
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1804- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1805 caused the server to abort.
1806
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1807- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1808 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1809 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1810
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1811- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1812 by empty spaces would not get included.
1813
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1814- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1815 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1816
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1817- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1818 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1819
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1820- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1821 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1822
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1823- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1824 on the parameter request list.
1825
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1826 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1827
1828- Some spelling fixes.
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1830 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1831
1832- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1833 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1834
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1835- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1836 domain-search option syntax.
1837
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1838 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1839
1840- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1841 hash table was repaired.
1842
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1843- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1844 entering normal state.
1845
1846- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1847 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1848 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1849
1850- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1851 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1853- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1854 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1855 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1856 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1857
45d545f0 1858- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1859 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1860 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1861 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1862 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1863 to their needs.
1864
1865- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1866 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1867 run will attempt balance.
1868
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1869- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1870
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1871 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1872
1873- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1874 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1875 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1876 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1877
98bd7ca0 1878- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1879 was introduced.
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1880
1881- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1882 via OMAPI.
1883
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1884- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1885 the protocol draft.
1886
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1887- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1888 one does not already exist on the system.
1889
b43c87ad 1890- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1891
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1892- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1893 matches RFC 3074.
1894
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1895- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1896 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1897 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1899- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1900 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1901 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1902
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1903- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1904 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1905 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1906 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1907
1908- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1909 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1910 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1911 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1912
f7fdb216 1913- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1914 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1915 DHCPv6 support.
1916
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1917- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1918 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1919 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1920
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1921- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1922 have been incorporated.
1923
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1924- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1925 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1926 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1927 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1928 that belong to the peer in need.
1929
1930- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1931 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1932
1933- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1934 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1935 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1936
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1937- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1938 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1939
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1940- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1941 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1942 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1943 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1944 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1945
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1946- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1947 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1948 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1949 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1950
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1951- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1952 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1953 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1954 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1955 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1956 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1957 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1958 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1959 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1960
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1961- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1962 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1963
41e45067 1964- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1965 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1966 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1967 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1968
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1969- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1970 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1971 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1972 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1973
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1974- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1975 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1976 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1977 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1978 via Robin Breathe.
1979
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1980- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1981 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1982 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1983 from Christof Chen.
1984
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1985- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1986 formally supported.
1987
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1988 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1989
1990- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1991 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1992
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1993 Changes since 3.0.5
1994
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1995- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1996 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1997 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1998 they actually received.
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1999
2000- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2001
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2002- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2003 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2004 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2005 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2006
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2007- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2008
d69fb6a8 2009- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2010 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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2012- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2013 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2014 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2015 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2016 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2017 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2018 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2019 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2020
2021- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2022 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2023 'file' field.
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2025- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2026 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2027
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2028- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2029 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2030 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2031
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2032- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2033 from Chris Wagner.
2034
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2035- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2036 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2037 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2038
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2039- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2040 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2041 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2042 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2043 was set.
2044
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2045- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2046 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2047
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2048- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2049 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2050 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2051 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2052 active ones.
2053
02428754 2054 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2055
901306d5 2056- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2057 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2058 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2059 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2060 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2061
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2062- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2063 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2064
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2065 Changes since 3.0.4
2066
2067- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2068 scopes are actually global has been added.
2069
2070- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2071 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2072 known to be damaging.
2073
2074- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2075 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2076 balancing).
2077
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2078- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2079 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2080 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2081
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2082- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2083 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2084 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2085
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2086- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2087 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2088 more clear now.
2089
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2090- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2091 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2092 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2093 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2094 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2095 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2096
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2097- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2098 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2099
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2100- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2101 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2102 made possible.
2103
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2104- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2105 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2106 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2107
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2108- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2109 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2110
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2111- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2112 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2113 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2114
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2115- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2116 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2117 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2118 value with the later configured value).
2119
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2120- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2121 have been named and documented.
2122
2123- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2124 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2125 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2126 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2127 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2128 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2129 write new output.
2130
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2131 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2132
2133- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2134 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2135
2136 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2137
2138- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2139 mailing list.
2140
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2141 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2142
45d545f0 2143- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2144 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2145
2146- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2147 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2148
2149- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2150 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2151 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2152 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2153
2154- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2155 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2156 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2157 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2158 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2159 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2160 transition (properly).
2161
2162- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2163
2164 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2165
2166- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2167 STDIN after reading one line.
2168
2169- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2170 descriptor it opened twice.
2171
2172- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2173 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2174 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2175
2176 Changes since 3.0.3
2177
2178- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2179 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2180 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2181
2182- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2183 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2184 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2185
2186- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2187 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2188 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2189 leases to allocate.
2190
2191- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2192 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2193 than the entire block of them.
2194
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2195! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2196 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2197 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2198 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2199 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2200 to a patch from infamous42md.
2201
2202! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2203 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2204 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2205 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2206 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2207 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2208
2209- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2210 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2211 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2212
2213- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2214 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2215
2216- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2217 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2218 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2219 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2220 transitional states.
2221
2222- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2223 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2224 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2225
2226- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2227 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2228 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2229
2230- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2231 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2232
2233- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2234 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2235
2236- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2237 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2238 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2239
2240- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2241 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2242
2243- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2244 repaired.
2245
2246- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2247 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2248 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2249 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2250
2251- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2252 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2253 data.
2254
2255- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2256 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2257 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2258 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2259 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2260
2261- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2262 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2263 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2264 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2265 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2266
2267- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2268 has been repaired.
2269
2270- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2271 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2272 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2273 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2274 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2275
2276- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2277 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2278
45d545f0 2279- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2280 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2281 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2282 move to 3.[01].x.
2283
2284- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2285 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2286
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2287 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2288
2289- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2290 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2291
2292- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2293 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2294 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2295 workaround.
2296
2297 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2298
2299- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2300 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2301
2302 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2303
2304- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2305 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2306 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2307
2308- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2309 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2310 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2311
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2312 Changes since 3.0.2
2313
2314- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2315 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2316 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2317
2318- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2319 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2320 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2321 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2322 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2323
2324- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2325 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2326 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2327
2328- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2329 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2330 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2331
2332- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2333 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2334 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2335 Peter Poeml.
2336
2337- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2338 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2339
2340- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2341 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2342 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2343 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2344 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2345 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2346
2347- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2348 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2349 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2350 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2351
2352- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2353 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2354 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2355 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2356
2357- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2358 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2359
2360- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2361 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2362 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2363
2364- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2365 7 bytes, and failover.
2366
2367- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2368 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2369 at Red Hat.
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2370
2371- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2372 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2373 should work better.
2374
2375- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2376 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2377 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2378
2379- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2380 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2381 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2382
2383 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2384
2385- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2386 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2387
2388 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2389
45d545f0 2390- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2391 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2392 overloading. This was repaired.
2393
2394- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2395 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2396 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2397 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2398 three chunks to fit.
2399
2400- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2401 were repaired.
2402
2403- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2404 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2405 leak).
2406
2407 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2408
2409- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2410 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2411
2412 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2413
2414- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2415
2416 Changes since 3.0.1
2417
2418- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2419 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2420 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2421
2422- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2423 name was not provided by the server.
2424
2425- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2426 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2427
2428- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2429 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2430
2431- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2432 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2433
2434- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2435
2436- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2437
2438- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2439 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2440 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2441 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2442 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2443
2444- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2445 the configuration be globally scoped.
2446
2447- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2448 Farkas.
2449
2450- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2451 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2452
2453- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2454 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2455
2456- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2457 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2458
2459- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2460 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2461 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2462 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2463
2464- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2465 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2466 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2467 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2468
2469- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2470 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2471 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2472
2473- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2474
2475- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2476 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2477 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2478
2479- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2480 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2481 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2482 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2483 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2484
2485- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2486 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2487
2488- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2489 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2490
2491- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2492 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2493 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2494 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2495
2496- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2497 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2498
2499- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2500 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2501 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2502
2503- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2504 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2505 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2506 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2507 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2508 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2509
2510- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2511 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2512 Infoblox.
2513
2514- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2515
2516- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2517 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2518 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2519 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2520 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2521 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2522 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2523
2524- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2525 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2526 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2527
2528- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2529 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2530 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2531
2532- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2533
2534 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2535
2536- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2537 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2538 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2539 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2540 systems either.
2541
2542- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2543
2544- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2545 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2546 is false.
2547
2548- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2549 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2550
2551- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2552
2553 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2554
2555! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2556 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2557 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2558 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2559 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2560 both finding and solving the problem.
2561
2562! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2563 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2564 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2565 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2566 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2567 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2568 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2569 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2570 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2571 published version of ISC DHCP.
2572
2573- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2574
2575- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2576
2577 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2578
2579- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2580 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2581 Richard Hirst.
2582
2583- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2584 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2585 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2586
2587- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2588
2589- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2590 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2591 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2592 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2593
2594- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2595 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2596
2597- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2598 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2599
2600- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2601
2602 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2603
2604- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2605 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2606
2607- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2608 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2609 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2610
2611- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2612 by name was fixed.
2613
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2615 longer result in error.
2616
2617- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2618
2619- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2620 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2621 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2622
2623- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2624 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2625
2626- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2627 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2628 Blapp.
2629
2630- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2631 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2632 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2633 Martin Blapp.
2634
2635- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2636 expiry times in failover configurations.
2637
2638- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2639 Steve G.
2640
2641- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2642 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2643
2644- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2645 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2646 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2647 now "unknown-144".
2648
2649- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2650 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2651
2652 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2653
2654- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2655
2656- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2657 not be bash.
2658
2659- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2660
2661- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2662 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2663 that errored before will now work properly.
2664
2665- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2666 names was repaired.
2667
2668- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2669 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2670 configuration file.
2671
2672- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2673 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2674
2675- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2676 error rather than a null dereference.
2677
2678 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2679
2680- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2681
2682- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2683
2684- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2685 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2686
2687- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2688
2689- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2690
2691- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2692 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2693 self-corrupting lease databases.
2694
2695- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2696
2697- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2698 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2699
2700- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2701
2702- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2703
2704- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2705 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2706 Ling Gou.
2707
2708- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2709 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2710
2711- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2712 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2713 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2714
2715- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2716 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2717
2718 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2719
2720- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2721 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2722
2723- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2724
2725- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2726 a memory leak.
2727
2728- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2729 script.
2730
2731- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2732
2733- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2734
2735- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2736
2737- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2738
2739- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2740
2741- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2742
2743- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2744
2745- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2746
2747- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2748
2749- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2750
2751- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2752
2753- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2754
2755 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2756
2757- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2758 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2759 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2760
2761 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2762
2763- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2764 to be renewed.
2765
2766- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2767 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2768
2769- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2770 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2771
2772- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2773 that two permit lists matched.
2774
2775- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2776 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2777
2778- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2779
2780- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2781 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2782
2783- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2784
2785- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2786
2787- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2788 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2789 going to update its A record.
2790
2791- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2792 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2793 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2794 DNS server.
2795
2796- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2797
2798- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2799
2800- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2801 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2802 NetBSD project).
2803
2804- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2805 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2806
2807- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2808 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2809
2810- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2811
2812- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2813
2814- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2815 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2816 failover protocol standard.
2817
2818- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2819 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2820 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2821
2822- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2823 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2824 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2825 do so.
2826
2827- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2828
2829 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2830
2831- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2832
2833- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2834 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2835
2836- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2837 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2838
2839- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2840 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2841 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2842
2843- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2844 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2845 network, merge the two pools.
2846
2847- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2848 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2849 fix this bug.
2850
2851 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2852
2853- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2854 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2855
2856- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2857 the same case.
2858
2859- Additional documentation.
2860
2861- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2862 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2863
2864 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2865
2866- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2867- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2868
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2870
2871- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2872 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2873 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2874 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2875 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2876
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2878
2879- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2880 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2881 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2882 wasn't the one that removed it.
2883
2884- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2885 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2886 were not configured.
2887
2888- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2889
2890- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2891 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2892 routing information.
2893
2894- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2895 request being sent.
2896
2897- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2898 done.
2899
2900- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2901 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2902 were pending.
2903
2904- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2905 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2906 problems with failover.
2907
2908- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2909 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2910 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2911
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2913
2914- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2915 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2916
2917- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2918 no object is open, it dumps core.
2919
2920- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2921
2922- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2923
2924- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2925
2926- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2927 a host object attribute with a null value.
2928
2929 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2930
2931- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2932
2933- Fix an obscure core dump.
2934
2935- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2936 when crucial information is left out.
2937
2938- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2939
2940- Documentation updates.
2941
2942 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2943
2944- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2945
2946- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2947 structure wasn't zeroed.
2948
2949- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2950 incorrectly.
2951
2952- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2953 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2954 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2955 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2956 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2957 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2958 restarted.
2959
2960 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2961
2962- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2963 in failover-enabled pools.
2964
2965- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2966 declarations).
2967
2968- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2969 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2970
2971- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2972 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2973
2974- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2975
2976- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2977 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2978
2979- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2980
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2982
2983- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2984
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2985 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2986
2987- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2988
2989- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2990
2991- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2992
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2993 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2994
2995- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2996 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2997 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2998
2999- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3000 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3001 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3002 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
3003 string.
3004
3005- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3006
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3007 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3008
3009- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3010 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3011
3012- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3013 malformed packets.
3014
3015- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3016
3017- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3018 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3019 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3020
3021- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3022
3023- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3024
3025- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3026
3027- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3028 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3029
3030- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3031 tcp connections from being played back.
3032
3033- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3034 on exit.
3035
3036- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3037
3038- Add some configurability to the build system.
3039
3040- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3041
3042- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3043 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3044 hadn't been noticed until now.
3045
3046 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3047
3048- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3049 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3050
3051- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3052 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3053 conformant, but also didn't work).
3054
3055- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3056 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3057
3058- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3059 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3060
3061- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3062 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3063
3064- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3065 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3066
3067- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3068 doing failover.
3069
3070- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3071 running on alpha processors.
3072
3073- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3074 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3075
3076- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3077
3078- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3079
3080- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3081 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3082
3083- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3084
3085- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3086 actually named (key names are domain names).
3087
3088- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3089
3090- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3091 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3092
3093- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3094 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3095
3096- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3097 statements.
3098
3099- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3100 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3101
3102- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3103 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3104 operating.
3105
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3107
3108- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3109 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3110 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3111 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3112
3113- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3114 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3115
3116- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3117
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3118 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3119
3120- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3121 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3122
3123- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3124 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3125 to the chain.
3126
3127- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3128
3129- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3130
3131- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3132
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3134 attribute values in omshell.
3135
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3137
3138- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3139
3140 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3141
3142- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3143 DHCPDECLINE.
3144
3145- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3146
3147- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3148 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3149 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3150
3151- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3152
3153- Documentation fixes.
3154
3155- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3156 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3157
3158- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3159 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3160
3161- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3162
3163- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3164
3165- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3166 case-insensitive.
3167
3168- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3169
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3171 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3172 consistently.
3173
3174- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3175 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3176
3177- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3178
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3179 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3180
3181- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3182 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3183 result of duplicate leases.
3184
3185- Document OMAPI server objects.
3186
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3187 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3188
3189- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3190 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3191
3192- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3193 core dumps.
3194
3195- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3196 Friedrich.
3197
3198- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3199
3200 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3201
3202- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3203 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3204 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3205 billing class code.
3206
3207- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3208 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3209
3210- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3211 trace file.
3212
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3215- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3216 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3217 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3218 e.g., Digital Unix.
3219
3220- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3221 when no error had occurred.
3222
3223- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3224 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3225 non-communicating state.
3226
3227- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3228
3229- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3230 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3231 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3232
3233- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3234 when the client lease expired.
3235
3236- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3237 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3238 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3239 in testing.
3240
3241- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3242 the command line, it would fail.
3243
3244- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3245 user impact).
3246
3247- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3248
3249- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3250 they're executable.
3251
3252 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3253
3254- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3255 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3256 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3257 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3258
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3259- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3260 Transmeta.
3261
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3262- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3263 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3264 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3265 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3266
3267- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3268 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3269
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3270 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3271
3272- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3273 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3274
3275- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3276
3277- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3278
3279- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3280
3281- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3282
3283- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3284
3285- Update some parts of the README file.
3286
3287- Support GCC on SCO.
3288
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3290
3291- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3292 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3293
3294- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3295 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3296 unbill the old class.
3297
3298- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3299 process the state transition immediately.
3300
3301- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3302 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3303
3304- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3305
3306- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3307
3308- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3309
3310- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3311
3312- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3313 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3314 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3315
3316- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3317 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3318
3319- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3320 lease file.
3321
3322- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3323
3324- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3327
3328- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3329 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3330
3331- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3332
adbef119 3333 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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3334
3335- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3336
adbef119 3337 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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3338
3339- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3340
3341- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3342 pl19.
3343
3344- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3345 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3346 past the regression test.
3347
adbef119 3348 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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3349
3350- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3351 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3352
3353- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3354 DHCPREQUEST.
3355
3356- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3357
3358- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3359
3360- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3361
adbef119 3362 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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3364- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3365 (Damien Neil)
3366
3367- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3368 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3369
3370- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3371 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3372 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3373
3374- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3375 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3376 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3377 message.
3378
3379- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3380 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3381 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3382
98311e4b 3383- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3384 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3385 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3386 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3387 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3388 this way will work.
3389
b3fad8ac
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3390- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3391
3392- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3393 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3394 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3395 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3396
3397 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3398
3399 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3400
3401- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3402 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3403 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3404
3405- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3406 Hermann Lauer.
3407
3408- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3409 messages.
3410
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3411- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3412 it contained quoted strings.
3413
b3fad8ac
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3414 ** there was no pl17 **
3415
adbef119 3416 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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3418- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3419 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3420 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3421 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3422 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3423 tracking down memory leaks.
3424
3425- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3426 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3427 Solaris.
3428
3429- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3430 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3431 corruption and core dumps.
3432
3433- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3434 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3435
3436- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3437
3438- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3439 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3440
3441- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3442 name and version to standard output.
3443
3444- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3445
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3446- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3447 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3448
6da9db9d
TL
3449- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3450
3451- Lots of documentation updates.
3452
3453- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3454 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3455
3456- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3457
3458- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3459 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3460
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3462
3463- Some documentation tweaks.
3464
3465- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3466
3467- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3468
3469- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3470 agent options into them.
3471
3472- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3473
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3474- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3475 options.
3476
adbef119 3477 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3478
3479- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3480 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3481 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3482 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3483 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3484
3485- Fix up documentation.
3486
3487- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3488 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3489
3490- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3491
3492- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3493
3494- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3495 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3496 practical use otherwise.
3497
3498- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3499 for debugging.
3500
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3502
3503- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3504 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3505 dump on some systems.
3506
3507- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3508 option.
3509
3510- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3511 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3512
3513- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3514 that were not printing enough information.
3515
3516- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3517 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3518
3519- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3520 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3521 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3522 were answering.
3523
3524- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3525 the transition.
3526
3527
adbef119 3528 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3529
3530- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3531
a1e2e3d6
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3532 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3533
3534- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3535 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3536 representation from working correctly.
3537
3538- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3539 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3540 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3541 could spin.
3542
3543- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3544 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3545
3546- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3547 interface name on the command line.
3548
3549- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3550 client state.
3551
3552- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3553 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3554 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3555 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3556 added by Ted Lemon.
3557
3558- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3559 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3560
3561- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3562 end option.
3563
3564- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3565 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3566 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3567
3568- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3569 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3570 face of a null hardware address on input.
3571
3572- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3573 specified unqualified.
3574
3575- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3576 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3577
3578- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3579 RFC.
3580
3581- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3582
3583- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3584
3585- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3586 it works.
3587
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3588 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3589
3590- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3591 to CVS.
3592
9fd337e7
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3593 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3594
3595- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3596
3597- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3598 in patchlevel 9.
3599
3600- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3601 options at renewal time.
3602
3603- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3604 configuration language.
3605
3606- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3607
3608- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3609 done when no client hostname was received.
3610
3611- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3612
3613- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3614 the DHCP option space.
3615
3616- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3617
3618- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3619 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3620
3621- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3622 silently dropped.
3623
3624- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3625 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3626
3627- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3628 will be correctly updated.
3629
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3630 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3631
3632- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3633 bounds-checking.
3634
3635 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
3636
3637- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3638
3922772a 3639 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3640
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TL
3641- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3642 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3643 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3644
3645- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3646 option.
3647
3648- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3649 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3650 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3651 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3652 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3653 meaningfully.
3654
3655- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3656 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3657 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3658
3659- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3660 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3661 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3662 this one down!
3663
3664- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3665 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3666 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3667 down and fixing this problem.
3668
3669 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3670
0f6045f8
TL
3671- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3672 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3673
3674- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3675 environment.
3676
3677- Fix suffix operator.
3678
3679- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3680
3681- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3682 connection code.
3683
3684- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3685
3686- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3687
3688- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3689 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3690
3691- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3692
3693- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3694
3695- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3696 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3697
3698- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3699 spawn with.
3700
3701- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3702 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3703
3704- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3705 for OMAPI.
3706
3707- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3708 can install in host declarations.
3709
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3710 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3711
3712- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3713 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3714 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3715 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3716 comments)!
3717
3718- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3719
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3720- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3721 request for help on this with patches!
3722
3723- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3724 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3725 lost, they never reconnect.
3726
3727- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3728 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3729
3730- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3731 dump.
3732
3733- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3734 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3735 catching this one.
3736
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3737 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3738
3739- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3740 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3741 lease renewal time.
3742
3743- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3744 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3745 declared without a key.
3746
3747- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3748
3749- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3750 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3751
3752- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3753 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3754 determine the maximum size of the response.
3755
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3756 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3757
359b023e
TL
3758- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3759 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3760
592d8153
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3761- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3762 RENEWING client.
3763
3764- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3765
3766- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3767 using memcmp().
3768
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3769 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3770
3771- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3772 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3773 pointing this out.
3774
3775- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3776 exit.
3777
3778- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3779
3780- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3781 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.