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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.
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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- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
174 on an error condition.
175 [ISC-Bugs #36194
176
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177- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
178 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
179
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180 Changes since 4.3.0rc1
181
182- None
183 Changes since 4.3.0b1
184
185- Tidy up receive packet processing.
186 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
187 a possible patch.
188 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
189
190 Changes since 4.3.0a1
191
192- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
193 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
194 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
195 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
196
197- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
198 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
199
6980ae03 200 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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202- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
203 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
204 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
205 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
206 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
207 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 208 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
8cd88e20 209 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 210 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 211 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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213- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
214 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
215 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
216
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217- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
218 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
219 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
220 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 221 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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223- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
224 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
225 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
226 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
227 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
228 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
229
a7341359 230- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 231 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 232
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233- Add support for using classes with v6.
234 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
235
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236- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
237 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
238 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
239 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
240 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
241 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
242 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 243 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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245- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
246 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
247 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
248 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
249 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
250 not recommended.
64fb661c 251 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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253- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
254 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
255 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
256 This is "Server starting service.".
257 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
258 its failover peer are in the normal state.
259 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 260 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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262- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
263 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
264 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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265 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
266 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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267 man page for a description.
268 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
269
e54ff84f 270- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 271 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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272 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
273 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
274 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
275 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
276 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
277
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278- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
279 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
280 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
281 one instance of their respective address types.
282 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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284- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
285 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
286 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
287 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 288 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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289 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
290 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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292- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
293 and take host declarations into account.
294 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
295 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
296
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297- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
298 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
299 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
300 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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302- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
303 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 304 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 306 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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308- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
309 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 310
01a44a77 311- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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313- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
314 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 315
01a44a77 316- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 317
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318- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
319 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
320 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
321 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
322 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
323 entry for each lease.
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01a44a77 325- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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327- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
328 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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330- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
331 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
332 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
333 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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335- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
336 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
337 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
338 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
339 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
340 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
341 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
342 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
343 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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345- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
346 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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348! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
349 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
350 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
351 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 352
01a44a77 353- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 354
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355- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
356 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
357 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
358 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
359 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 360
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361- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
362 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
363 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
364 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
365 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
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01a44a77 367- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 368
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369- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
370 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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372- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
373 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
374 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
375 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
376 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
377 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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379- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
380 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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382 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
383 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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385 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
386 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 387
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388 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
389 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 390
01a44a77 391- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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393- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
394 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
395 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
396 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
397 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
398 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 399
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400- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
401 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
402 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
403 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
404 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
405 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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407- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
408 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
409 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 410
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411- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
412 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
413 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
414 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 415
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416- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
417 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
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419- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
420 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
421 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 422
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423- Minor code fixes
424 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
425 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
426 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
427 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
428 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
429 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
430 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
431 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
432 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
433 Thanks to Martin Pala.
434 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
435 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 436
01a44a77 437- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 438
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439- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
440 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
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442- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
443 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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445- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
446 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
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448- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
449 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
450 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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452- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
453 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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455- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
456 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
457 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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459- Fixes to lease input and output.
460 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
461 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
462 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
463 characters.
464 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
465 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 466
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467- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
468 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
469 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
470 at Red Hat.
471 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
472 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
473 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
474 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
b047bd38 475
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476- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
477 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
478 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
479 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 480
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481! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
482 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
483 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
484 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 485
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486- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
487 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
488 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 489
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490- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
491 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
492 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
493 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
494 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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496- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
497 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
498 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
499 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
500 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 501
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502! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
503 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
504 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
505 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
506 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
507 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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509- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
510 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
511 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
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513- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
514 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
515 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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517- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
518 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
519 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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521- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
522 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
523 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
524 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
525 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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527- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
528 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
529 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
530 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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532! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
533 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
534 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
535 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
536 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
537 and reset its timeout value.
538 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
539
540- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
541 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
542 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
543 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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545 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
546 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
547 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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549- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
550 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
551 when removing the ddns information.
552 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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554- Some fixes for LDAP
555 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
556 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
557 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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559- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
560 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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561
562! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
563 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
564 interfaces with the OS.
565 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
566 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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567
568- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
569 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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571- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
572 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
573 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
574 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
575 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
576 in v6 mode at configure time.
577 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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579- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
580 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
581 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 582 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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584- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
585 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
586 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
587 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 588 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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590- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
591 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
592 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
593 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 594 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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596- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
597 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
598 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
599 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 600 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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602- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
603 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 604 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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606- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
607 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
608 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
609 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 610 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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612- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
613 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
614 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
615
616- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
617 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
618 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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620- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
621 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
622 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
623 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
624 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
625 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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627- Documentation fixes
628 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
629 responses to the all-ones address.
630 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
631 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
632
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633- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
634 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
635 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
636 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
637
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638- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
639 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
640
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641- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
642 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
643 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
644
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645- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
646 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
647 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
648 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
649 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
650 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
651 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
652 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
653 enable this except for testing purposes.
654 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
655 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
656
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657- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
658 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
659
660- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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662- Client Script fixes
663 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
664 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
665 the domain search address is link local.
666 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
667 case of the default router information being changed without the address
668 being changed.
669
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670- Documentation cleanup
671 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
672
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673- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
674 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
675
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676- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
677 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
678 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
679 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
680
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681- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
682 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
683 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
684
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685- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
686 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
687
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688- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
689 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
690 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
691 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
692 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
693 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
694
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695- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
696 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
697 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
698 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
699 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
700 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
701 in site.h then server will be terminated
702 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
703
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704! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
705 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
706 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
707 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
708 One CVE number for each class of packet.
709 CVE-2011-2748
710 CVE-2011-2749
711
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712- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
713 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
714 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
715 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
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717- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
718 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
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720- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
721 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
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723- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
724 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
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726! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
727 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
728 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
729 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
730 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
731 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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733! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
734 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
735 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
736 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
737 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
738 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
739 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
740 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
741 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
742 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
743 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
744 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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746- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
747 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
748 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
749 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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751- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
752 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
753 from the DNS client code.
754 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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756- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
757 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
758
759- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
760 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
761 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
762 some issues we found in the socket code.
763 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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765- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
766 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
767 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
768 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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770- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
771 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
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773- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
774 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
775 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
776 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
777 weren't removed from the DNS.
778 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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780- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
781 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
782 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
783 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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785- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
786 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
787 dynamic bootp clients.
788 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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790- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
791 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
792 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
793 handing it out.
794 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
795 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
796 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
797 for different IAs.
798 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
799 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
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801- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
802 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
803 an int as a boolean).
804 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
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806- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
807 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
808 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
809 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
810 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
811 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
812 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
813 may be removed in the future.
814 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
815 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
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817- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
818 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
819 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
820 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
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822- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
823 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
824 report and the first version of the patch.
825 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
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827- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
828 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
829 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
830 for reporting this issue.
831 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
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833- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
834 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
835 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
836 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
837 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
838 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
839 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
840 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
841 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
842 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
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844! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
845 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
846 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
847 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
848 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
849 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
850 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
851 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
852 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
853 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
854 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
855 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
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857! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
858 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
859 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
860 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
861 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
862 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
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864! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
865 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
866 this issue.
867 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
868 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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870- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
871 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
872 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
873 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
874 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
875 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
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877! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
878 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
879 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
880 New Zealand for finding this issue.
881 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
882 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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884- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
885 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
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887- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
888 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
889 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
890 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
891 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
892 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
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894- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
895 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
896 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
897 freed in other cases.
898 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
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900- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
901 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
902 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
903 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
904 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
905 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
906 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
907 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
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909- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
910 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
911 and patches.
912 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
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914- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
915 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
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917- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
918 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
919 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
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921- The client now passes information about the options it requested
922 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
923 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
924 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
925 variables.
926 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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928- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
929 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
930 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
931 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
932 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
933 enabling it.
934 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
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936- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
937 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
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939- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
940 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
941 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
942 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
943 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
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945- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
946 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
947 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
948 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
949 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
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951- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
952 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
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954- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
955 and comment out a currently unused test.
956 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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958- Address static analysis warnings.
959 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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961- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
962 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
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964- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
965 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
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967- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
968 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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970- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
971 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
972 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
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974- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
975 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
976 for the patch.
977 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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979- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
980 objects.
981 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
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983- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
984 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
985 to work more consistently.
986 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
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988- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
989 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
990 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
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992- Update client script for use with openwrt.
993 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
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995- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
996 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
997 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
998 for the bug report and a potential patch.
999 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
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1001- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1002 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1003
01a44a77
SR
1004- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1005 to the clients.
1006 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1007
01a44a77
SR
1008- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1009 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1010
7aa153b8 1011
adbef119
DH
1012 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1013
d340bc24
DH
1014- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1015 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1016 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1017
0829d595
DH
1018- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1019 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1020 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1021
8a3c1e33
PS
1022- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1023 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1024
a41d7a25
PS
1025- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1026
9e3eb22a
DH
1027- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1028 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1029 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1030 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1031 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1032 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1033
33ea4622
DH
1034- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1035 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1036 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1037 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1038 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1039 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1040 FQDN options by default).
1041
5a671e87
DH
1042- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1043 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1044 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1045 determined lease time) are omitted.
1046
98bf1607 1047- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 1048 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1049 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
DH
1050
1051- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1052 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1053 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1054
59112e84
SR
1055 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1056
62f6843d
MA
1057- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1058
59112e84
SR
1059- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1060
47e6eb82
DH
1061- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1062 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1063 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1064 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1065 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1066
159c89d7
EH
1067- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1068
1aa0fe5e
DH
1069- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1070 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1071 had been deleted from configuration.
1072
cd51403d
SR
1073- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1074 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1075 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
cd51403d
SR
1076 were being ignored.
1077
64e1823d
DH
1078- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1079
26e59ee9
DH
1080- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1081 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1082 Nordahl.
1083
70ea9345
PS
1084- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1085 dhcpv6 disabled.
1086
8d7dca58 1087- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1088 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1089
f4534b17
DH
1090- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1091 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1092
f9453d21
DH
1093- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1094 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1095 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1096
1097- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1098 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1099 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1100 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1101 fewer system calls.
1102
a3dcc0b1
DH
1103- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1104 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1105 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1106 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1107 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1108 Christof Chen.
1109
95fd7038
DH
1110- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1111 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1112 and in normal state.
1113
1114- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1115 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1116
8a3c1e33
PS
1117- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1118
1119- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1120 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1121 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1122
dedde1ba
DH
1123- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1124 rather than restarting the listener.
1125
a57df74a
DH
1126- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1127 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1128
1129- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1130 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1131 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1132
350576c5
DH
1133- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1134 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1135 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1136 timeouts).
1137
792156a9
DH
1138- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1139 in failover state records.
1140
8a4e543b
DH
1141! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1142 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1143 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1144 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1145
a1308b64
DH
1146- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1147 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1148
1b12d999
DH
1149- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1150 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1151 last option definition is used.
1152
d453265f
PS
1153- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1154 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1155 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1156
3e29af1e
PS
1157- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1158 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1159
b8d45c67
DH
1160- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1161 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1162 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1163 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1164 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1165 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1166
583c1c16
DH
1167- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1168 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1169 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1170 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1171
e4e3a2ab
DH
1172! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1173 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1174
875e99dc
SR
1175- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1176 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1177
2267da84
DH
1178- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1179 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1180 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1181 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1182 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1183 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1184 configuration.
1185
cd3f0b9b
DH
1186- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1187 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1188
0493fdca
SR
1189- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1190 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1191 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1192 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1193
95bba8b6
SR
1194- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1195 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1196 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1197 was always properly set.
1198
adbef119 1199 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1200
1201- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1202 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1203
a4ffedd1
DH
1204 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1205
1206- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1207 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1208 "abandoned".
1209
6ff3b26d
FD
1210- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1211
1387545f
DH
1212- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1213 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1214
1215- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1216 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1217
1218- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1219 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1220
399d3dbe
DH
1221- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1222
fbcee149
DH
1223- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1224 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1225 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1226 in future releases.
1227
f1672d89
DH
1228- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1229 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1230
236d3a99
DH
1231- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1232 'dhclient -6' support.
1233
efa5e6b9
DH
1234- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1235 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1236 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1237 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1238
7d6180be 1239 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1240
1241- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1242
51e7687f
EH
1243- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1244
20210a7b
EH
1245- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1246 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1247 only the latter. Fixed.
1248
535485df
EH
1249- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1250
8fbb55ff
DH
1251- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1252 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1253
61220a00
EH
1254- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1255
c40e954c
EH
1256- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1257
63971a83
DH
1258- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1259 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1260 --enable-early-chroot.
1261
66cebfcb
DH
1262- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1263 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1264
f8cbf390
DH
1265- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1266 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1267 parameter.
1268
8269561d
DH
1269- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1270 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1271
b445a411
DH
1272- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1273 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1274
bd72740e
FD
1275- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1276
9322442f
FD
1277- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1278
8dea7ba7
FD
1279- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1280
4619c0a2
DH
1281- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1282
9ac4206a
DH
1283- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1284 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1285 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1286
420d8b3f
FD
1287- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1288 support.
1289
40ec5f38
DH
1290- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1291 repaired.
1292
80097764
FD
1293- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1294
ffbaa880
FD
1295- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1296
7de20a95
EH
1297- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1298 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1299
d352732e
EH
1300- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1301 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1302
7d6180be
DH
1303- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1304 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1305
1306- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1307 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1308 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1309 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1310 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1311 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1312 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1313 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1314 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1315 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1316 shared-network.
1317
1318- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1319 configured option values.
1320
1321- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1322 support class statements.
1323
dd484ced
DH
1324- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1325 selection were repaired.
1326
ecddae64
DH
1327- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1328 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1329 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1330 by the OS.
1331
1332- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1333 address.
1334
1335- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1336 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1337
d104d45b
DH
1338- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1339
1340- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1341
1342- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1343 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1344
01a54c17 1345 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1346
6d7f9584
FD
1347- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1348
4cafb815 1349- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1350 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1351
022fe95e
EH
1352- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1353 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1354 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1355
1dcc3612
SK
1356- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1357 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1358
aabfa4de
FD
1359- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1360
0674055a
FD
1361- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1362 reserved IDs avoided).
1363
b51c785f
FD
1364- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1365
900405e9
FD
1366- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1367 carries a rapid-commit option.
1368
96b620e5
FD
1369- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1370 an empty active lease.
1371
be62cf06
FD
1372- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1373
01a54c17
EH
1374- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1375 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1376 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1377 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1378
1379- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1380
1381- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1382 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1383 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1384 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1385 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1386 Christof Chen.
1387
1388 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1389
1390- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1391
1392- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1393 config file but -6 is not specified.
1394
1395- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1396
1397- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1398 be more helpful.
1399
1400- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1401 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1402 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1403
1404- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1405 was repaired.
1406
1407- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1408 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1409 been repaired.
1410
1411- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1412 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1413 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1414
49f61135
DH
1415- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1416 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1417
41d4652f
DH
1418- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1419 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1420 IPv4 address.
1421
2c9bf1f4
DH
1422- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1423 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1424 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1425 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1426 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1427
1428- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1429 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1430 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1431
cff9b78f
SK
1432- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1433
c4d29896
SK
1434- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1435
57fcb8d9
SK
1436- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1437 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1438 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1439 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1440 unnecessary logging.
1441
219a65eb
DH
1442- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1443 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1444
ffdf3c8c
DH
1445- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1446 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1447 is incompatible is printed.
1448
1449- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1450 a previously undefined option code.
1451
00a002fc
MA
1452- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1453 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1454
7e9f7a1b
FD
1455- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1456 than the year 2000.
1457
e2cfde76
FD
1458- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1459
cabdb9b1
FD
1460- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1461
5d89d60f
FD
1462- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1463
61d75ea2
DH
1464 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1465
1466- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1467 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1468 configuration.
76db44f9 1469
e32529a5
EH
1470- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1471 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1472
76db44f9
SK
1473- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1474 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1475 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1476
6f76de58
SK
1477- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1478 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1479 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1480 a requested address.
1481
703873ab
DH
1482- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1483 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1484 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1485 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1486
1487- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1488 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1489 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1490 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1491
b024480e
DH
1492- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1493 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1494 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1495
c0216cb7
DH
1496- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1497 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1498
1ac57173
FD
1499- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1500
83835822
DH
1501- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1502 codes through some conditions.
1503
c54db708
FD
1504- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1505 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1506
e5d83524
DH
1507- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1508 seemingly random values.
1509
821f2dda
DH
1510- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1511
f8b3c6f4
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1512- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1513 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1514 one ever has.
1515
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1516- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1517 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1518 to a REQUEST.
1519
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1520- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1521 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1522 level.
1523
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1524 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1525
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1526- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1527
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1528- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1529 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1530 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1531 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1532 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1533
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1534- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1535 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1536 new address.
1537
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1538 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1539
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1540- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1541 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1542 simultaneously on a single interface.
1543
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1544- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1545 of service under unusual server configurations
1546
1547- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1548
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1549- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1550 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
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1552- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1553 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1554 on every pool rebalance run.
1555
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1556- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1557 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1558
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1559- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1560 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1561
ab3a540f 1562 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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1564- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1565 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1566
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1567- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1568 point out the problem.
1569
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1570- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1571 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1572 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1573
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1574- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1575 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1576
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1577- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1578 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1579 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1580
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1581- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1582
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1583- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1584 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1585
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1586- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1587 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1588 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1589 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1590
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1591- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1592
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1593- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1594 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1595 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1596 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1597 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1598
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1599- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1600
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1601 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1602
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1603- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1604 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1605
763cba6b 1606- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
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1608- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1609 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1610 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1611
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1612- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1613
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1614- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1615 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1616
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1617- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1618 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1619 loaded from persistent storage.
1620
45d545f0 1621- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1622 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1623 necessary.
1624
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1625- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1626 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1627 rapid-commit option.
1628
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1629- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1630 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1631
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1632 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1633
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1634- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1635 and fix.
1636
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1637- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1638
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1639- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1640
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1641- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1642 for when loading configuration.
1643
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1644- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1645 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1646 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1647
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1648- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1649 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1650 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1651 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1652
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1653- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1654
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1655- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1656 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1657
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1658- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1659
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1660- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1661
1662- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1663 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1664
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1665- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1666 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1667
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1668- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1669
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1670- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1671 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1672
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1673 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1674
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1675- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1676
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1677- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1678 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1679
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1680- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1681
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1682- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1683 initialized.
1684
1685- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1686
1687- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1688 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1689
1690- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1692- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1693
1694- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1695 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1696
1697- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1698
8ea19a71 1699- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1700 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1701
1702- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1703 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1704
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1705- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1706
1707- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1708
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1709- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1710
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1711 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1712
1713- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1714 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1715 no support currently for both.
1716
1717- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1718 IAADDR option.
1719
1720- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1721 options.
1722
1723- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1724
1725- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1726 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1727
1728- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1729 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1730 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1731
1732- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1733 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1734
1735- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1736 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1737 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1738 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1739 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1740 differently, they both use the same code here).
1741
1742- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1743 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1744 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1745
1746- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1747
1748- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1749 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1750 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1751 it should not intercept.
1752
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1753 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1754
1755- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1756 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1757 between primary and secondary.
1758
1759- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1760 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1761 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1762
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1763- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1764
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1765- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1766 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1767 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1768 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1769 or REQUEST messages.
1770
1771- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1772 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1773
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1774- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1775
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1776 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1777
1778- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1779 failover protected subnets was removed.
1780
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1781 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1782
1783- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1784 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1785 odd number of leases).
1786
1787- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1788 rebalance run, and one after.
1789
1790- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1791 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1792 processing these messages.
1793
fe5b0fdd 1794 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1796- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1797 objects.
1798
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1799- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1800 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1801 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1802 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1803 at Allianz.
1804
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1805- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1806 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1807
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1808- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1809 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1810
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1811- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1812 caused the server to abort.
1813
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1814- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1815 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1816 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1817
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1818- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1819 by empty spaces would not get included.
1820
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1821- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1822 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1823
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1824- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1825 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1826
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1827- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1828 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1829
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1830- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1831 on the parameter request list.
1832
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1833 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1834
1835- Some spelling fixes.
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1837 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1838
1839- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1840 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1841
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1842- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1843 domain-search option syntax.
1844
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1845 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1846
1847- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1848 hash table was repaired.
1849
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1850- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1851 entering normal state.
1852
1853- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1854 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1855 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1856
1857- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1858 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1860- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1861 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1862 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1863 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1864
45d545f0 1865- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1866 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1867 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1868 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1869 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1870 to their needs.
1871
1872- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1873 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1874 run will attempt balance.
1875
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1876- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1877
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1878 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1879
1880- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1881 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1882 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1883 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1884
98bd7ca0 1885- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1886 was introduced.
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1887
1888- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1889 via OMAPI.
1890
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1891- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1892 the protocol draft.
1893
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1894- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1895 one does not already exist on the system.
1896
b43c87ad 1897- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1898
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1899- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1900 matches RFC 3074.
1901
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1902- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1903 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1904 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1905
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1906- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1907 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1908 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1909
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1910- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1911 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1912 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1913 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1914
1915- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1916 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1917 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1918 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1919
f7fdb216 1920- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1921 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1922 DHCPv6 support.
1923
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1924- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1925 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1926 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1927
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1928- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1929 have been incorporated.
1930
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1931- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1932 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1933 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1934 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1935 that belong to the peer in need.
1936
1937- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1938 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1939
1940- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1941 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1942 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1943
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1944- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1945 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1946
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1947- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1948 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1949 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1950 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1951 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1952
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1953- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1954 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1955 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1956 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1957
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1958- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1959 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1960 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1961 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1962 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1963 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1964 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1965 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1966 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1967
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1968- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1969 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1970
41e45067 1971- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1972 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1973 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1974 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1975
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1976- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1977 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1978 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1979 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1980
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1981- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1982 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1983 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1984 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1985 via Robin Breathe.
1986
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1987- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1988 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1989 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1990 from Christof Chen.
1991
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1992- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1993 formally supported.
1994
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1995 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1996
1997- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1998 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1999
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2000 Changes since 3.0.5
2001
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2002- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2003 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2004 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2005 they actually received.
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2006
2007- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2008
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2009- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2010 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2011 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2012 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2013
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2014- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2015
d69fb6a8 2016- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2017 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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2019- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2020 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2021 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2022 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2023 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2024 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2025 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2026 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2027
2028- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2029 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2030 'file' field.
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2032- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2033 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2034
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2035- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2036 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2037 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2038
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2039- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2040 from Chris Wagner.
2041
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2042- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2043 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2044 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2045
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2046- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2047 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2048 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2049 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2050 was set.
2051
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2052- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2053 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2054
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2055- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2056 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2057 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2058 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2059 active ones.
2060
02428754 2061 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2062
901306d5 2063- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2064 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2065 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2066 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2067 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2068
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2069- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2070 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2071
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2072 Changes since 3.0.4
2073
2074- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2075 scopes are actually global has been added.
2076
2077- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2078 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2079 known to be damaging.
2080
2081- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2082 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2083 balancing).
2084
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2085- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2086 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2087 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2088
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2089- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2090 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2091 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2092
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2093- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2094 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2095 more clear now.
2096
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2097- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2098 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2099 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2100 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2101 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2102 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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2104- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2105 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2106
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2107- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2108 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2109 made possible.
2110
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2111- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2112 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2113 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2114
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2115- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2116 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2117
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2118- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2119 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2120 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2121
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2122- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2123 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2124 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2125 value with the later configured value).
2126
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2127- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2128 have been named and documented.
2129
2130- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2131 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2132 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2133 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2134 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2135 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2136 write new output.
2137
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2138 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2139
2140- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2141 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2142
2143 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2144
2145- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2146 mailing list.
2147
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2148 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2149
45d545f0 2150- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2151 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2152
2153- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2154 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2155
2156- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2157 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2158 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2159 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2160
2161- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2162 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2163 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2164 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2165 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2166 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2167 transition (properly).
2168
2169- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2170
2171 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2172
2173- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2174 STDIN after reading one line.
2175
2176- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2177 descriptor it opened twice.
2178
2179- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2180 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2181 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2182
2183 Changes since 3.0.3
2184
2185- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2186 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2187 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2188
2189- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2190 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2191 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2192
2193- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2194 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2195 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2196 leases to allocate.
2197
2198- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2199 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2200 than the entire block of them.
2201
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2202! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2203 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2204 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2205 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2206 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2207 to a patch from infamous42md.
2208
2209! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2210 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2211 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2212 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2213 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2214 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2215
2216- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2217 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2218 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2219
2220- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2221 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2222
2223- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2224 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2225 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2226 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2227 transitional states.
2228
2229- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2230 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2231 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2232
2233- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2234 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2235 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2236
2237- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2238 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2239
2240- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2241 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2242
2243- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2244 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2245 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2246
2247- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2248 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2249
2250- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2251 repaired.
2252
2253- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2254 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2255 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2256 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2257
2258- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2259 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2260 data.
2261
2262- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2263 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2264 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2265 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2266 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2267
2268- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2269 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2270 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2271 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2272 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2273
2274- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2275 has been repaired.
2276
2277- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2278 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2279 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2280 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2281 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2282
2283- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2284 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2285
45d545f0 2286- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2287 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2288 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2289 move to 3.[01].x.
2290
2291- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2292 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2293
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2294 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2295
2296- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2297 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2298
2299- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2300 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2301 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2302 workaround.
2303
2304 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2305
2306- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2307 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2308
2309 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2310
2311- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2312 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2313 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2314
2315- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2316 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2317 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2318
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2319 Changes since 3.0.2
2320
2321- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2322 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2323 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2324
2325- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2326 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2327 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2328 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2329 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2330
2331- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2332 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2333 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2334
2335- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2336 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2337 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2338
2339- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2340 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2341 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2342 Peter Poeml.
2343
2344- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2345 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2346
2347- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2348 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2349 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2350 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2351 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2352 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2353
2354- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2355 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2356 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2357 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2358
2359- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2360 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2361 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2362 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2363
2364- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2365 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2366
2367- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2368 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2369 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2370
2371- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2372 7 bytes, and failover.
2373
2374- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2375 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2376 at Red Hat.
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2377
2378- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2379 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2380 should work better.
2381
2382- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2383 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2384 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2385
2386- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2387 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2388 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2389
2390 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2391
2392- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2393 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2394
2395 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2396
45d545f0 2397- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2398 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2399 overloading. This was repaired.
2400
2401- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2402 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2403 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2404 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2405 three chunks to fit.
2406
2407- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2408 were repaired.
2409
2410- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2411 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2412 leak).
2413
2414 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2415
2416- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2417 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2418
2419 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2420
2421- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2422
2423 Changes since 3.0.1
2424
2425- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2426 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2427 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2428
2429- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2430 name was not provided by the server.
2431
2432- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2433 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2434
2435- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2436 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2437
2438- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2439 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2440
2441- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2442
2443- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2444
2445- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2446 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2447 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2448 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2449 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2450
2451- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2452 the configuration be globally scoped.
2453
2454- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2455 Farkas.
2456
2457- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2458 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2459
2460- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2461 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2462
2463- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2464 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2465
2466- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2467 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2468 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2469 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2470
2471- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2472 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2473 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2474 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2475
2476- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2477 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2478 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2479
2480- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2481
2482- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2483 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2484 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2485
2486- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2487 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2488 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2489 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2490 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2491
2492- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2493 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2494
2495- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2496 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2497
2498- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2499 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2500 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2501 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2502
2503- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2504 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2505
2506- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2507 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2508 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2509
2510- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2511 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2512 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2513 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2514 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2515 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2516
2517- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2518 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2519 Infoblox.
2520
2521- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2522
2523- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2524 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2525 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2526 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2527 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2528 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2529 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2530
2531- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2532 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2533 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2534
2535- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2536 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2537 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2538
2539- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2540
2541 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2542
2543- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2544 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2545 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2546 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2547 systems either.
2548
2549- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2550
2551- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2552 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2553 is false.
2554
2555- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2556 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2557
2558- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2559
2560 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2561
2562! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2563 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2564 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2565 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2566 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2567 both finding and solving the problem.
2568
2569! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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2571 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2572 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2573 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2574 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2575 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2576 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2577 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2578 published version of ISC DHCP.
2579
2580- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2581
2582- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2583
2584 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2585
2586- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2587 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2588 Richard Hirst.
2589
2590- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2591 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2592 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2593
2594- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2595
2596- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2597 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2598 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2599 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2600
2601- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
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2603
2604- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2605 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2606
2607- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2608
2609 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2610
2611- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2612 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2613
2614- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2615 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2616 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2617
2618- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2619 by name was fixed.
2620
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2622 longer result in error.
2623
2624- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2625
2626- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2627 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2628 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2629
2630- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2631 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2632
2633- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2634 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2635 Blapp.
2636
2637- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2638 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2639 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2640 Martin Blapp.
2641
2642- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2643 expiry times in failover configurations.
2644
2645- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2646 Steve G.
2647
2648- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2649 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2650
2651- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2652 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2653 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2654 now "unknown-144".
2655
2656- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2657 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2658
2659 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2660
2661- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2662
2663- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2664 not be bash.
2665
2666- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2667
2668- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2669 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2670 that errored before will now work properly.
2671
2672- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2673 names was repaired.
2674
2675- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2676 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2677 configuration file.
2678
2679- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2680 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2681
2682- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2683 error rather than a null dereference.
2684
2685 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2686
2687- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2688
2689- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2690
2691- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2692 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2693
2694- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2695
2696- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2697
2698- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2699 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2700 self-corrupting lease databases.
2701
2702- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2703
2704- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2705 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2706
2707- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2708
2709- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2710
2711- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2712 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2713 Ling Gou.
2714
2715- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2716 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2717
2718- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2719 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2720 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2721
2722- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2723 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2724
2725 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2726
2727- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2728 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2729
2730- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2731
2732- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2733 a memory leak.
2734
2735- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2736 script.
2737
2738- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2739
2740- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2741
2742- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2743
2744- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2745
2746- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2747
2748- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2749
2750- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2751
2752- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2753
2754- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2755
2756- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2757
2758- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2759
2760- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2761
2762 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2763
2764- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2765 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2766 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2767
2768 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2769
2770- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2771 to be renewed.
2772
2773- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2774 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2775
2776- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2777 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2778
2779- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2780 that two permit lists matched.
2781
2782- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2783 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2784
2785- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2786
2787- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2788 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2789
2790- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2791
2792- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2793
2794- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2795 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2796 going to update its A record.
2797
2798- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2799 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2800 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2801 DNS server.
2802
2803- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2804
2805- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2806
2807- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2808 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2809 NetBSD project).
2810
2811- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2812 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2813
2814- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2815 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2816
2817- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2818
2819- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2820
2821- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2822 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2823 failover protocol standard.
2824
2825- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2826 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2827 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2828
2829- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2830 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2831 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2832 do so.
2833
2834- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2835
2836 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2837
2838- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2839
2840- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2841 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2842
2843- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2844 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2845
2846- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2847 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2848 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2849
2850- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2851 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2852 network, merge the two pools.
2853
2854- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2855 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2856 fix this bug.
2857
2858 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2859
2860- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2861 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2862
2863- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2864 the same case.
2865
2866- Additional documentation.
2867
2868- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2869 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2870
2871 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2872
2873- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2874- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2875
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2877
2878- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2879 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2880 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2881 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2882 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2883
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2885
2886- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2887 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2888 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2889 wasn't the one that removed it.
2890
2891- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2892 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2893 were not configured.
2894
2895- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2896
2897- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2898 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2899 routing information.
2900
2901- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2902 request being sent.
2903
2904- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2905 done.
2906
2907- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2908 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2909 were pending.
2910
2911- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2912 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2913 problems with failover.
2914
2915- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2916 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2917 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2918
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2920
2921- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2922 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2923
2924- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2925 no object is open, it dumps core.
2926
2927- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2928
2929- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2930
2931- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2932
2933- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2934 a host object attribute with a null value.
2935
2936 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2937
2938- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2939
2940- Fix an obscure core dump.
2941
2942- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2943 when crucial information is left out.
2944
2945- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2946
2947- Documentation updates.
2948
2949 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2950
2951- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2952
2953- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2954 structure wasn't zeroed.
2955
2956- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2957 incorrectly.
2958
2959- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2960 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2961 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2962 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2963 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2964 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2965 restarted.
2966
2967 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2968
2969- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2970 in failover-enabled pools.
2971
2972- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2973 declarations).
2974
2975- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2976 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2977
2978- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2979 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2980
2981- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2982
2983- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2984 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2985
2986- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2987
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2989
2990- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2991
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2993
2994- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2995
2996- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2997
2998- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
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3001
3002- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3003 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3004 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3005
3006- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3007 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3008 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3009 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
3010 string.
3011
3012- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3013
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3014 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3015
3016- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3017 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3018
3019- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3020 malformed packets.
3021
3022- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3023
3024- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3025 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3026 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3027
3028- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3029
3030- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3031
3032- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3033
3034- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3035 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3036
3037- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3038 tcp connections from being played back.
3039
3040- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3041 on exit.
3042
3043- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3044
3045- Add some configurability to the build system.
3046
3047- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3048
3049- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3050 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3051 hadn't been noticed until now.
3052
3053 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3054
3055- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3056 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3057
3058- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3059 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3060 conformant, but also didn't work).
3061
3062- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3063 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3064
3065- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3066 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3067
3068- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3069 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3070
3071- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3072 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3073
3074- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3075 doing failover.
3076
3077- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3078 running on alpha processors.
3079
3080- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3081 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3082
3083- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3084
3085- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3086
3087- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3088 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3089
3090- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3091
3092- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3093 actually named (key names are domain names).
3094
3095- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3096
3097- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3098 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3099
3100- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3101 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3102
3103- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3104 statements.
3105
3106- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3107 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3108
3109- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3110 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3111 operating.
3112
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3113 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3114
3115- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3116 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3117 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3118 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3119
3120- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3121 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3122
3123- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3124
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3125 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3126
3127- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3128 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3129
3130- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3131 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3132 to the chain.
3133
3134- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3135
3136- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3137
3138- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3139
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3141 attribute values in omshell.
3142
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3145- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3146
3147 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3148
3149- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3150 DHCPDECLINE.
3151
3152- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3153
3154- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3155 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3156 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3157
3158- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3159
3160- Documentation fixes.
3161
3162- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3163 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3164
3165- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3166 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3167
3168- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3169
3170- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3171
3172- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3173 case-insensitive.
3174
3175- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3176
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3178 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3179 consistently.
3180
3181- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3182 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3183
3184- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3185
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3186 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3187
3188- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3189 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3190 result of duplicate leases.
3191
3192- Document OMAPI server objects.
3193
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3195
3196- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3197 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3198
3199- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3200 core dumps.
3201
3202- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3203 Friedrich.
3204
3205- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3206
3207 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3208
3209- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3210 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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3213
3214- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3215 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3216
3217- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3218 trace file.
3219
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3222- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3223 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3224 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3225 e.g., Digital Unix.
3226
3227- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3228 when no error had occurred.
3229
3230- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3231 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3232 non-communicating state.
3233
3234- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3235
3236- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3237 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3238 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3239
3240- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3241 when the client lease expired.
3242
3243- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3244 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3245 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3246 in testing.
3247
3248- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3249 the command line, it would fail.
3250
3251- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3252 user impact).
3253
3254- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3255
3256- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3257 they're executable.
3258
3259 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3261- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3262 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3263 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3264 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
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3266- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3267 Transmeta.
3268
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3269- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3270 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3271 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3272 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3273
3274- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3275 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3276
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3277 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3278
3279- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3280 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3281
3282- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3283
3284- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3285
3286- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3287
3288- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3289
3290- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3291
3292- Update some parts of the README file.
3293
3294- Support GCC on SCO.
3295
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3297
3298- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3299 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3300
3301- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3302 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3303 unbill the old class.
3304
3305- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3306 process the state transition immediately.
3307
3308- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3309 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3310
3311- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3312
3313- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3314
3315- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3316
3317- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3318
3319- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3320 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3321 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3322
3323- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3324 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3325
3326- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3327 lease file.
3328
3329- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3330
3331- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 3332
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3334
3335- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3336 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3337
3338- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3339
adbef119 3340 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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TL
3341
3342- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3343
adbef119 3344 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
fc74dd0c
TL
3345
3346- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3347
3348- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3349 pl19.
3350
3351- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3352 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3353 past the regression test.
3354
adbef119 3355 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 19
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TL
3356
3357- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3358 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3359
3360- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3361 DHCPREQUEST.
3362
3363- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3364
3365- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3366
3367- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3368
adbef119 3369 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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3350f5b7
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3371- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3372 (Damien Neil)
3373
3374- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3375 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3376
3377- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3378 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3379 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3380
3381- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3382 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3383 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3384 message.
3385
3386- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3387 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3388 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3389
98311e4b 3390- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3391 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3392 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3393 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3394 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3395 this way will work.
3396
b3fad8ac
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3397- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3398
3399- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3400 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3401 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3402 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3403
3404 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3405
3406 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3407
3408- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3409 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3410 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3411
3412- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3413 Hermann Lauer.
3414
3415- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3416 messages.
3417
3350f5b7
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3418- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3419 it contained quoted strings.
3420
b3fad8ac
TL
3421 ** there was no pl17 **
3422
adbef119 3423 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 3424
6da9db9d
TL
3425- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3426 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3427 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3428 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3429 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3430 tracking down memory leaks.
3431
3432- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3433 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3434 Solaris.
3435
3436- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3437 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3438 corruption and core dumps.
3439
3440- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3441 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3442
3443- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3444
3445- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3446 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3447
3448- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3449 name and version to standard output.
3450
3451- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3452
e6d30fd6
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3453- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3454 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3455
6da9db9d
TL
3456- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3457
3458- Lots of documentation updates.
3459
3460- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3461 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3462
3463- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3464
3465- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3466 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3467
adbef119 3468 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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3469
3470- Some documentation tweaks.
3471
3472- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3473
3474- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3475
3476- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3477 agent options into them.
3478
3479- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3480
c5b569f8
TL
3481- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3482 options.
3483
adbef119 3484 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
754ae3e9
TL
3485
3486- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3487 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3488 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3489 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3490 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3491
3492- Fix up documentation.
3493
3494- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3495 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3496
3497- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3498
3499- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3500
3501- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3502 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3503 practical use otherwise.
3504
3505- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3506 for debugging.
3507
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3509
3510- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3511 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3512 dump on some systems.
3513
3514- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3515 option.
3516
3517- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3518 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3519
3520- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3521 that were not printing enough information.
3522
3523- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3524 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3525
3526- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3527 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3528 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3529 were answering.
3530
3531- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3532 the transition.
3533
3534
adbef119 3535 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
66e98927
TL
3536
3537- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3538
a1e2e3d6
TL
3539 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3540
3541- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3542 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3543 representation from working correctly.
3544
3545- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3546 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3547 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3548 could spin.
3549
3550- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3551 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3552
3553- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3554 interface name on the command line.
3555
3556- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3557 client state.
3558
3559- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3560 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3561 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3562 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3563 added by Ted Lemon.
3564
3565- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3566 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3567
3568- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3569 end option.
3570
3571- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3572 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3573 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3574
3575- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3576 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3577 face of a null hardware address on input.
3578
3579- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3580 specified unqualified.
3581
3582- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3583 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3584
3585- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3586 RFC.
3587
3588- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3589
3590- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3591
3592- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3593 it works.
3594
6c68ec36
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3595 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3596
3597- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3598 to CVS.
3599
9fd337e7
TL
3600 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3601
3602- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3603
3604- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3605 in patchlevel 9.
3606
3607- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3608 options at renewal time.
3609
3610- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3611 configuration language.
3612
3613- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3614
3615- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3616 done when no client hostname was received.
3617
3618- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3619
3620- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3621 the DHCP option space.
3622
3623- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3624
3625- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3626 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3627
3628- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3629 silently dropped.
3630
3631- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3632 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3633
3634- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3635 will be correctly updated.
3636
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3637 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3638
3639- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3640 bounds-checking.
3641
3642 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
TL
3643
3644- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3645
3922772a 3646 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3647
f8572308
TL
3648- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3649 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3650 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3651
3652- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3653 option.
3654
3655- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3656 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3657 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3658 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3659 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3660 meaningfully.
3661
3662- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3663 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3664 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3665
3666- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3667 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3668 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3669 this one down!
3670
3671- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3672 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3673 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3674 down and fixing this problem.
3675
3676 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3677
0f6045f8
TL
3678- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3679 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3680
3681- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3682 environment.
3683
3684- Fix suffix operator.
3685
3686- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3687
3688- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3689 connection code.
3690
3691- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3692
3693- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3694
3695- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3696 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3697
3698- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3699
3700- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3701
3702- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3703 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3704
3705- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3706 spawn with.
3707
3708- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3709 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3710
3711- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3712 for OMAPI.
3713
3714- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3715 can install in host declarations.
3716
801de092
TL
3717 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3718
3719- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3720 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3721 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3722 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3723 comments)!
3724
3725- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3726
6ed7a93d
TL
3727- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3728 request for help on this with patches!
3729
3730- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3731 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3732 lost, they never reconnect.
3733
3734- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3735 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3736
3737- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3738 dump.
3739
3740- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3741 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3742 catching this one.
3743
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3744 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3745
3746- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3747 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3748 lease renewal time.
3749
3750- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3751 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3752 declared without a key.
3753
3754- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3755
3756- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3757 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3758
3759- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3760 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3761 determine the maximum size of the response.
3762
592d8153
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3763 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3764
359b023e
TL
3765- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3766 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3767
592d8153
TL
3768- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3769 RENEWING client.
3770
3771- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3772
3773- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3774 using memcmp().
3775
2aa36519
TL
3776 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3777
3778- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3779 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3780 pointing this out.
3781
3782- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3783 exit.
3784
3785- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3786
3787- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3788 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.