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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.0
43
44- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
45 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
46 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
47 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
48 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
49 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
50
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51- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
52 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
53 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
54 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
55 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
56 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
57
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58- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
59 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
60 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
61
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62- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
63 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
64 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
65 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
66
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67- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
68 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
69
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70- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
71 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
72 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
73
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74- Minor code fixes
75 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
76 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
77 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
78 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
79 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
80 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
81 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
82 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
83 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
84 Thanks to Martin Pala.
85 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
86 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
87
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88- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
89
90- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
91 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
92
93- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
94 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
95
96- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
97 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
98
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99- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
100 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
101 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
102
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103- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
104 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
105
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106- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
107 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
108 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
109
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110- Fixes to lease input and output.
111 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
112 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
113 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
114 characters.
115 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
116 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
117
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118- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
119 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
120 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
121 at Red Hat.
122 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
123 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
124 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
125 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
126
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127- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
128 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
129 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
130 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
131
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132! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
133 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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134 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
135 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
136
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137- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
138 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
139 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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141- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
142 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
143 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
144 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
145 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
146
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147- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
148 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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149 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
150 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
151 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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153! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
154 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
155 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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156 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
157 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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158 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
159
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160- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
161 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
162 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
163
164- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
165 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
166 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
167
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168- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
169 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
170 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
171
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172- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
173 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
174 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
175 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
176 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
177
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178- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
179 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
180 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
181 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
182
c8b189f1 183! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 184 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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185 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
186 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 187 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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188 and reset it's timeout value.
189 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
190
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191- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
192 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
193 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
194 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
195
196 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
197 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
198 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
199
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200- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
201 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
202 when removing the ddns information.
203 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
204
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205- Some fixes for LDAP
206 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
207 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
208 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
209
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210- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
211 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
212
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213 Changes since 4.2.0b2
214
215- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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217 Changes since 4.2.0b1
218
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219- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
220 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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222! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
223 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 224 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 225 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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227- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
228
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229- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
230 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
231 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
232 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
233 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
234
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235- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
236 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
237 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
238 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
239 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
240
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241- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
242
600ee619 243- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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244 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
245
246- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
247 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
248 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
249 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
250 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
251 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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253- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
254 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
255
256 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
257 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
258
259 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
260 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
261
262 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
263 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
264
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265 Changes since 4.2.0a2
266
267- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
268 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
269
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270- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
271 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
272 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 273 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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275- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
276 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
277 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
278 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
279 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
280 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
281 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
282 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
283 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
284
3c941d42 285 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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286
287- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
288 is no longer truncated to one octet.
289
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290- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
291
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292- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
293 reflect support for prefix delegation.
294
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295- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
296
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297- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
298 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
299 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
300 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
301 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
302 entry for each lease.
303
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304- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
305
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306 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
307
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308- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
309 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 310 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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312- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
313 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
314 Cantrell at Red Hat.
315
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316- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
317 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
318
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319- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
320
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321- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
322 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
323 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
324 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
325 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
326 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
327
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328- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
329 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
330 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
331 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
332 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
333 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
334 FQDN options by default).
335
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336- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
337 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
338 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
339 determined lease time) are omitted.
340
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341- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
342 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
343 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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344
345- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
346 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
347 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
348
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349 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
350
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351- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
352
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353- Validate the argument to the -p option.
354
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355- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
356 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
357 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
358 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
359 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
360
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361- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
362
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363- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
364 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
365 had been deleted from configuration.
366
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367- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
368 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 369 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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370 were being ignored.
371
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372- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
373
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374- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
375 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
376 Nordahl.
377
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378- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
379 dhcpv6 disabled.
380
8d7dca58 381- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 382 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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384- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
385 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
386
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387- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
388 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
389 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
390
391- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
392 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
393 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
394 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
395 fewer system calls.
396
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397- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
398 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
399 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
400 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
401 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
402 Christof Chen.
403
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404- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
405 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
406 and in normal state.
407
408- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
409 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
410
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411- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
412
413- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
414 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
415 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
416
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417- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
418 rather than restarting the listener.
419
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420- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
421 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
422
423- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
424 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
425 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
426
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427- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
428 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
429 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
430 timeouts).
431
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432- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
433 in failover state records.
434
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435! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
436 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
437 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 438 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
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440- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
441 processing a DHCPINFORM.
442
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443- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
444 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
445 last option definition is used.
446
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447- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
448 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
449 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
450
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451- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
452 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
453
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454- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
455 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
456 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
457 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
458 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
459 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
460
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461- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
462 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
463 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
464 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
465
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466! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
467 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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469- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
470 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
471
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472- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
473 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
474 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
475 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
476 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 477 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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478 configuration.
479
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480- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
481 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
482
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483- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
484 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
485 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
486 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
487
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488- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
489 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
490 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
491 was always properly set.
492
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495- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
496 be recognized.
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498 Changes since 4.1.0a2
499
500- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
501 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
502 "abandoned".
503
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504- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
505
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506- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
507 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
508
509- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
510 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
511
512- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 513 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 514
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515- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
516
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517- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
518 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
519 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
520 in future releases.
521
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522- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
523 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
524
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525- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
526 'dhclient -6' support.
527
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528- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
529 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
530 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
531 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
532
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534
535- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
536
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537- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
538
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539- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
540 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
541 only the latter. Fixed.
542
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543- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
544
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545- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
546 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
547
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548- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
549
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550- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
551
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552- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
553 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
554 --enable-early-chroot.
555
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556- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
557 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
558
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559- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
560 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
561 parameter.
562
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563- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
564 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
565
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566- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
567 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
568
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569- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
570
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571- Merged IA_XX related structures.
572
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573- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
574
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575- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
576
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577- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
578 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
579 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
580
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581- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
582 support.
583
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584- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
585 repaired.
586
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587- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
588
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589- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
590
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591- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
592 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
593
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594- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
595 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
596
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597- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
598 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
599
600- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
601 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
602 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
603 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
604 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
605 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
606 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
607 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
608 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
609 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
610 shared-network.
611
612- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
613 configured option values.
614
615- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
616 support class statements.
617
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618- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
619 selection were repaired.
620
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621- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
622 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
623 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
624 by the OS.
625
626- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
627 address.
628
629- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
630 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
631
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632- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
633
634- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
635
636- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
637 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
638
01a54c17 639 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 640
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641- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
642
4cafb815 643- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 644 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 645
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646- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
647 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
648 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
649
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650- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
651 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
652
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653- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
654
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655- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
656 reserved IDs avoided).
657
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658- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
659
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660- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
661 carries a rapid-commit option.
662
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663- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
664 an empty active lease.
665
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666- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
667
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668- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
669 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
670 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
671 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
672
673- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
674
675- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
676 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
677 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
678 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
679 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
680 Christof Chen.
681
682 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
683
684- DHCP now builds on AIX.
685
686- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
687 config file but -6 is not specified.
688
689- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
690
691- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
692 be more helpful.
693
694- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
695 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
696 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
697
698- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
699 was repaired.
700
701- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
702 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
703 been repaired.
704
705- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
706 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
707 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
708
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709- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
710 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
711
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712- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
713 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
714 IPv4 address.
715
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716- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
717 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
718 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
719 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
720 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
721
722- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
723 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
724 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
725
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726- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
727
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728- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
729
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730- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
731 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
732 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
733 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
734 unnecessary logging.
735
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736- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
737 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
738
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739- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
740 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
741 is incompatible is printed.
742
743- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
744 a previously undefined option code.
745
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746- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
747 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
748
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749- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
750 than the year 2000.
751
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752- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
753
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754- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
755
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756- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
757
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758 Changes since 4.0.0b3
759
760- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
761 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
762 configuration.
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764- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
765 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
766
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767- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
768 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
769 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 770
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771- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
772 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
773 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
774 a requested address.
775
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776- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
777 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
778 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
779 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
780
781- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
782 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
783 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
784 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
785
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786- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
787 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
788 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
789
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790- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
791 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
792
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793- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
794
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795- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
796 codes through some conditions.
797
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798- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
799 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
800
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801- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
802 seemingly random values.
803
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804- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
805
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806- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
807 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
808 one ever has.
809
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810- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
811 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
812 to a REQUEST.
813
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814- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
815 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
816 level.
817
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818 Changes since 4.0.0b2
819
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820- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
821
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822- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
823 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
824 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
825 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
826 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
827
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828- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
829 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
830 new address.
831
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832 Changes since 4.0.0b1
833
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834- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
835 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
836 simultaneously on a single interface.
837
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838- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
839 of service under unusual server configurations
840
841- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
842
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843- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
844 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 845
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846- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
847 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
848 on every pool rebalance run.
849
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850- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
851 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
852
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853- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
854 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
855
ab3a540f 856 Changes since 4.0.0a3
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858- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
859 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
860
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861- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
862 point out the problem.
863
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864- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
865 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
866 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
867
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868- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
869 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
870
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871- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
872 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
873 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
874
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875- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
876
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877- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
878 fixed by Marcus Goller.
879
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880- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
881 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
882 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
883 regardless of the existence of bindings.
884
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885- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
886
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887- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
888 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
889 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
890 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
891 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
892
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893- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
894
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895 Changes since 4.0.0a2
896
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897- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
898 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
899
763cba6b 900- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 901
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902- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
903 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
904 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
905
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906- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
907
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908- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
909 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
910
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911- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
912 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
913 loaded from persistent storage.
914
45d545f0 915- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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916 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
917 necessary.
918
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919- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
920 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
921 rapid-commit option.
922
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923- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
924 non-128-bits in length were removed.
925
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926 Changes since 4.0.0a1
927
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928- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
929 and fix.
930
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931- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
932
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933- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
934
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935- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
936 for when loading configuration.
937
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938- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
939 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
940 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
941
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942- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
943 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
944 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
945 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
946
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947- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
948
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949- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
950 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 951
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952- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
953
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954- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
955
956- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
957 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
958
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959- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
960 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
961
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962- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
963
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964- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
965 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
966
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967 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
968
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969- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
970
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971- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
972 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
973
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974- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
975
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976- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
977 initialized.
978
979- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
980
981- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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982 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
983
984- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 985
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986- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
987
988- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
989 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
990
991- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
992
8ea19a71 993- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 994 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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995
996- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
997 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
998
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999- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1000
1001- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1002
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1003- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1004
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1005 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1006
1007- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1008 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1009 no support currently for both.
1010
1011- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1012 IAADDR option.
1013
1014- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1015 options.
1016
1017- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1018
1019- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1020 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1021
1022- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1023 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1024 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1025
1026- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1027 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1028
1029- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1030 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1031 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1032 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1033 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1034 differently, they both use the same code here).
1035
1036- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1037 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1038 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1039
1040- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1041
1042- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1043 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1044 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1045 it should not intercept.
1046
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1047 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1048
1049- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1050 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1051 between primary and secondary.
1052
1053- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1054 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1055 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1056
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1057- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1058
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1059- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1060 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1061 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1062 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1063 or REQUEST messages.
1064
1065- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1066 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1067
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1068- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1069
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1070 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1071
1072- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1073 failover protected subnets was removed.
1074
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1075 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1076
1077- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1078 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1079 odd number of leases).
1080
1081- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1082 rebalance run, and one after.
1083
1084- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1085 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1086 processing these messages.
1087
fe5b0fdd 1088 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1089
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1090- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1091 objects.
1092
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1093- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1094 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1095 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1096 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1097 at Allianz.
1098
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1099- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1100 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1101
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1102- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1103 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1104
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1105- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1106 caused the server to abort.
1107
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1108- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1109 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1110 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1111
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1112- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1113 by empty spaces would not get included.
1114
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1115- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1116 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1117
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1118- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1119 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1120
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1121- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1122 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1123
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1124- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1125 on the parameter request list.
1126
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1127 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1128
1129- Some spelling fixes.
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1131 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1132
1133- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1134 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1135
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1136- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1137 domain-search option syntax.
1138
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1139 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1140
1141- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1142 hash table was repaired.
1143
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1144- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1145 entering normal state.
1146
1147- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1148 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1149 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1150
1151- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1152 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1154- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1155 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1156 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1157 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1158
45d545f0 1159- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1160 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1161 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1162 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1163 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1164 to their needs.
1165
1166- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1167 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1168 run will attempt balance.
1169
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1170- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1171
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1172 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1173
1174- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1175 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1176 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1177 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1178
98bd7ca0 1179- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1180 was introduced.
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1181
1182- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1183 via OMAPI.
1184
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1185- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1186 the protocol draft.
1187
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1188- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1189 one does not already exist on the system.
1190
b43c87ad 1191- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1192
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1193- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1194 matches RFC 3074.
1195
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1196- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1197 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1198 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1199
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1200- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1201 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1202 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1203
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1204- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1205 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1206 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1207 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1208
1209- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1210 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1211 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1212 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1213
f7fdb216 1214- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1215 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1216 DHCPv6 support.
1217
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1218- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1219 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1220 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1221
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1222- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1223 have been incorporated.
1224
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1225- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1226 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1227 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1228 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1229 that belong to the peer in need.
1230
1231- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1232 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1233
1234- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1235 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1236 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1237
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1238- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1239 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1240
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1241- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1242 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1243 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1244 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1245 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1246
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1247- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1248 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1249 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1250 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1251
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1252- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1253 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1254 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1255 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1256 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1257 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1258 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1259 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1260 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1261
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1262- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1263 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1264
41e45067 1265- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1266 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1267 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1268 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1269
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1270- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1271 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1272 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1273 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1274
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1275- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1276 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1277 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1278 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1279 via Robin Breathe.
1280
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1281- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1282 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1283 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1284 from Christof Chen.
1285
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1286- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1287 formally supported.
1288
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1289 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1290
1291- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1292 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1293
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1294 Changes since 3.0.5
1295
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1296- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1297 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1298 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1299 they actually received.
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1300
1301- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1302
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1303- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1304 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1305 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1306 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1308- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1309
d69fb6a8 1310- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1311 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1313- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1314 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1315 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1316 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1317 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1318 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1319 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1320 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1321
1322- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1323 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1324 'file' field.
02428754 1325
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1326- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1327 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1328
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1329- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1330 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1331 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1332
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1333- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1334 from Chris Wagner.
1335
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1336- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1337 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1338 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1339
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1340- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1341 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1342 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1343 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1344 was set.
1345
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1346- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1347 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1348
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1349- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1350 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1351 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1352 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1353 active ones.
1354
02428754 1355 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1356
901306d5 1357- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1358 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1359 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1360 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1361 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1362
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1363- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1364 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1365
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1366 Changes since 3.0.4
1367
1368- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1369 scopes are actually global has been added.
1370
1371- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1372 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1373 known to be damaging.
1374
1375- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1376 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1377 balancing).
1378
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1379- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1380 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1381 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1382
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1383- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1384 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1385 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1386
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1387- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1388 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1389 more clear now.
1390
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1391- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1392 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1393 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1394 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1395 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1396 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1398- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1399 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1400
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1401- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1402 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1403 made possible.
1404
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1405- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1406 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1407 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1408
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1409- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1410 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1411
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1412- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1413 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1414 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1415
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1416- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1417 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1418 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1419 value with the later configured value).
1420
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1421- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1422 have been named and documented.
1423
1424- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1425 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1426 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1427 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1428 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1429 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1430 write new output.
1431
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1432 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1433
1434- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1435 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1436
1437 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1438
1439- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1440 mailing list.
1441
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1442 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1443
45d545f0 1444- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1445 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1446
1447- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1448 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1449
1450- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1451 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1452 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1453 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1454
1455- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1456 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1457 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1458 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1459 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1460 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1461 transition (properly).
1462
1463- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1464
1465 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1466
1467- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1468 STDIN after reading one line.
1469
1470- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1471 descriptor it opened twice.
1472
1473- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1474 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1475 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1476
1477 Changes since 3.0.3
1478
1479- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1480 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1481 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1482
1483- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1484 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1485 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1486
1487- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1488 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1489 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1490 leases to allocate.
1491
1492- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1493 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1494 than the entire block of them.
1495
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1496! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1497 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1498 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1499 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1500 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1501 to a patch from infamous42md.
1502
1503! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1504 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1505 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1506 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1507 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1508 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1509
1510- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1511 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1512 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1513
1514- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1515 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1516
1517- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1518 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1519 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1520 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1521 transitional states.
1522
1523- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1524 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1525 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1526
1527- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1528 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1529 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1530
1531- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1532 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1533
1534- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1535 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1536
1537- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1538 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1539 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1540
1541- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1542 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1543
1544- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1545 repaired.
1546
1547- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1548 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1549 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1550 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1551
1552- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1553 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1554 data.
1555
1556- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1557 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1558 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1559 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1560 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1561
1562- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1563 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1564 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1565 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1566 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1567
1568- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1569 has been repaired.
1570
1571- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1572 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1573 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1574 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1575 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1576
1577- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1578 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 1579
45d545f0 1580- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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1581 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1582 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1583 move to 3.[01].x.
1584
1585- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1586 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1587
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1588 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1589
1590- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1591 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1592
1593- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1594 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1595 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1596 workaround.
1597
1598 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1599
1600- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1601 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1602
1603 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1604
1605- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1606 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1607 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1608
1609- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1610 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1611 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1612
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1613 Changes since 3.0.2
1614
1615- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1616 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1617 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1618
1619- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1620 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1621 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1622 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1623 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1624
1625- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1626 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1627 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1628
1629- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1630 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1631 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1632
1633- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1634 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1635 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1636 Peter Poeml.
1637
1638- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1639 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1640
1641- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1642 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1643 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1644 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1645 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1646 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1647
1648- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1649 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1650 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1651 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1652
1653- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1654 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1655 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1656 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1657
1658- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1659 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1660
1661- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1662 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1663 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1664
1665- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1666 7 bytes, and failover.
1667
1668- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1669 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1670 at Red Hat.
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1671
1672- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1673 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1674 should work better.
1675
1676- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1677 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1678 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1679
1680- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1681 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1682 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1683
1684 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1685
1686- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1687 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1688
1689 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1690
45d545f0 1691- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1692 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1693 overloading. This was repaired.
1694
1695- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1696 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1697 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1698 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1699 three chunks to fit.
1700
1701- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1702 were repaired.
1703
1704- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1705 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1706 leak).
1707
1708 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1709
1710- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1711 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1712
1713 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1714
1715- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1716
1717 Changes since 3.0.1
1718
1719- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1720 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1721 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1722
1723- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1724 name was not provided by the server.
1725
1726- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1727 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1728
1729- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1730 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1731
1732- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1733 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1734
1735- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1736
1737- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1738
1739- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1740 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1741 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1742 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1743 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1744
1745- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1746 the configuration be globally scoped.
1747
1748- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1749 Farkas.
1750
1751- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1752 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1753
1754- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1755 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1756
1757- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1758 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1759
1760- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1761 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1762 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1763 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1764
1765- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1766 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1767 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1768 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1769
1770- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1771 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1772 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1773
1774- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1775
1776- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1777 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1778 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1779
1780- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1781 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1782 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1783 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1784 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1785
1786- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1787 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1788
1789- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1790 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1791
1792- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1793 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1794 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1795 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1796
1797- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1798 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1799
1800- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1801 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1802 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1803
1804- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1805 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1806 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1807 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1808 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1809 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1810
1811- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1812 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1813 Infoblox.
1814
1815- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1816
1817- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1818 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1819 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1820 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1821 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1822 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1823 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1824
1825- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1826 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1827 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1828
1829- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1830 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1831 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1832
1833- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1834
1835 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1836
1837- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1838 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1839 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1840 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1841 systems either.
1842
1843- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1844
1845- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1846 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1847 is false.
1848
1849- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
1850 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
1851
1852- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
1853
1854 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
1855
1856! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
1857 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
1858 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
1859 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
1860 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
1861 both finding and solving the problem.
1862
1863! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 1864 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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1865 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
1866 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
1867 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
1868 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
1869 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
1870 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
1871 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
1872 published version of ISC DHCP.
1873
1874- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
1875
1876- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
1877
1878 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
1879
1880- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
1881 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
1882 Richard Hirst.
1883
1884- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
1885 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
1886 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
1887
1888- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
1889
1890- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
1891 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
1892 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
1893 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
1894
1895- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 1896 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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1897
1898- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
1899 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
1900
1901- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
1902
1903 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
1904
1905- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
1906 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
1907
1908- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
1909 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
1910 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
1911
1912- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
1913 by name was fixed.
1914
45d545f0 1915- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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1916 longer result in error.
1917
1918- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
1919
1920- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
1921 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
1922 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
1923
1924- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
1925 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
1926
1927- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
1928 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
1929 Blapp.
1930
1931- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
1932 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
1933 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
1934 Martin Blapp.
1935
1936- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
1937 expiry times in failover configurations.
1938
1939- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
1940 Steve G.
1941
1942- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
1943 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
1944
1945- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
1946 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
1947 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
1948 now "unknown-144".
1949
1950- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
1951 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
1952
1953 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
1954
1955- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
1956
1957- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
1958 not be bash.
1959
1960- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1961
1962- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
1963 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
1964 that errored before will now work properly.
1965
1966- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
1967 names was repaired.
1968
1969- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
1970 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
1971 configuration file.
1972
1973- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
1974 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
1975
1976- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
1977 error rather than a null dereference.
1978
1979 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
1980
1981- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
1982
1983- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
1984
1985- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
1986 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
1987
1988- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
1989
1990- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
1991
1992- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
1993 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
1994 self-corrupting lease databases.
1995
1996- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
1997
1998- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
1999 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2000
2001- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2002
2003- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2004
2005- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2006 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2007 Ling Gou.
2008
2009- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2010 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2011
2012- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2013 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2014 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2015
2016- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2017 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2018
2019 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2020
2021- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2022 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2023
2024- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2025
2026- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2027 a memory leak.
2028
2029- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2030 script.
2031
2032- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2033
2034- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2035
2036- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2037
2038- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2039
2040- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2041
2042- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2043
2044- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2045
2046- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2047
2048- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2049
2050- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2051
2052- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2053
2054- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2055
2056 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2057
2058- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2059 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2060 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2061
2062 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2063
2064- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2065 to be renewed.
2066
2067- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2068 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2069
2070- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2071 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2072
2073- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2074 that two permit lists matched.
2075
2076- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2077 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2078
2079- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2080
2081- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2082 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2083
2084- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2085
2086- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2087
2088- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2089 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2090 going to update its A record.
2091
2092- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2093 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2094 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2095 DNS server.
2096
2097- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2098
2099- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2100
2101- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2102 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2103 NetBSD project).
2104
2105- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2106 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2107
2108- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2109 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2110
2111- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2112
2113- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2114
2115- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2116 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2117 failover protocol standard.
2118
2119- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2120 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2121 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2122
2123- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2124 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2125 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2126 do so.
2127
2128- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2129
2130 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2131
2132- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2133
2134- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2135 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2136
2137- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2138 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2139
2140- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2141 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2142 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2143
2144- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2145 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2146 network, merge the two pools.
2147
2148- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2149 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2150 fix this bug.
2151
2152 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2153
2154- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2155 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2156
2157- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2158 the same case.
2159
2160- Additional documentation.
2161
2162- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2163 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2164
2165 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2166
2167- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2168- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2169
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2171
2172- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2173 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2174 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2175 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2176 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2177
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2179
2180- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2181 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2182 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2183 wasn't the one that removed it.
2184
2185- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2186 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2187 were not configured.
2188
2189- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2190
2191- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2192 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2193 routing information.
2194
2195- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2196 request being sent.
2197
2198- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2199 done.
2200
2201- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2202 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2203 were pending.
2204
2205- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2206 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2207 problems with failover.
2208
2209- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2210 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2211 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2212
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2214
2215- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2216 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2217
2218- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2219 no object is open, it dumps core.
2220
2221- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2222
2223- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2224
2225- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2226
2227- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2228 a host object attribute with a null value.
2229
2230 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2231
2232- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2233
2234- Fix an obscure core dump.
2235
2236- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2237 when crucial information is left out.
2238
2239- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2240
2241- Documentation updates.
2242
2243 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2244
2245- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2246
2247- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2248 structure wasn't zeroed.
2249
2250- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2251 incorrectly.
2252
2253- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2254 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2255 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2256 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2257 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2258 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2259 restarted.
2260
2261 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2262
2263- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2264 in failover-enabled pools.
2265
2266- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2267 declarations).
2268
2269- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2270 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2271
2272- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2273 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2274
2275- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2276
2277- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2278 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2279
2280- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2281
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2283
2284- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2285
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2286 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2287
2288- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2289
2290- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2291
2292- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2293
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2294 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2295
2296- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2297 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2298 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2299
2300- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2301 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2302 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2303 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2304 string.
2305
2306- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2307
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2309
2310- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2311 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2312
2313- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2314 malformed packets.
2315
2316- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2317
2318- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2319 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2320 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2321
2322- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2323
2324- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2325
2326- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2327
2328- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2329 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2330
2331- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2332 tcp connections from being played back.
2333
2334- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2335 on exit.
2336
2337- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2338
2339- Add some configurability to the build system.
2340
2341- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2342
2343- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2344 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2345 hadn't been noticed until now.
2346
2347 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2348
2349- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2350 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2351
2352- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2353 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2354 conformant, but also didn't work).
2355
2356- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2357 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2358
2359- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2360 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2361
2362- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2363 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2364
2365- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2366 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2367
2368- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2369 doing failover.
2370
2371- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2372 running on alpha processors.
2373
2374- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2375 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2376
2377- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2378
2379- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2380
2381- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2382 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2383
2384- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2385
2386- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2387 actually named (key names are domain names).
2388
2389- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2390
2391- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2392 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2393
2394- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2395 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2396
2397- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2398 statements.
2399
2400- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2401 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2402
2403- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2404 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2405 operating.
2406
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2408
2409- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2410 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2411 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2412 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2413
2414- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2415 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2416
2417- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2418
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2419 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2420
2421- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2422 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2423
2424- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2425 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2426 to the chain.
2427
2428- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2429
2430- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2431
2432- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2433
98311e4b 2434- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2435 attribute values in omshell.
2436
98311e4b 2437- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2438
2439- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2440
2441 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2442
2443- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2444 DHCPDECLINE.
2445
2446- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2447
2448- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2449 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2450 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2451
2452- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2453
2454- Documentation fixes.
2455
2456- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2457 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2458
2459- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2460 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2461
2462- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2463
2464- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2465
2466- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2467 case-insensitive.
2468
2469- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2470
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2472 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2473 consistently.
2474
2475- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2476 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2477
2478- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2479
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2480 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2481
2482- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2483 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2484 result of duplicate leases.
2485
2486- Document OMAPI server objects.
2487
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2488 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2489
2490- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2491 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2492
2493- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2494 core dumps.
2495
2496- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2497 Friedrich.
2498
2499- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2500
2501 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2502
2503- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2504 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2506 billing class code.
2507
2508- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2509 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2510
2511- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2512 trace file.
2513
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2516- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2517 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2518 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2519 e.g., Digital Unix.
2520
2521- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2522 when no error had occurred.
2523
2524- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2525 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2526 non-communicating state.
2527
2528- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2529
2530- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2531 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2532 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2533
2534- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2535 when the client lease expired.
2536
2537- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2538 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2539 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2540 in testing.
2541
2542- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2543 the command line, it would fail.
2544
2545- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2546 user impact).
2547
2548- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2549
2550- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2551 they're executable.
2552
2553 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2554
2555- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2556 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2557 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2558 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2559
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2560- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2561 Transmeta.
2562
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2563- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2564 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2565 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2566 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2567
2568- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2569 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2570
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2571 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2572
2573- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2574 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2575
2576- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2577
2578- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2579
2580- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2581
2582- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2583
2584- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2585
2586- Update some parts of the README file.
2587
2588- Support GCC on SCO.
2589
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2591
2592- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2593 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2594
2595- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2596 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2597 unbill the old class.
2598
2599- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2600 process the state transition immediately.
2601
2602- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2603 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2604
2605- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2606
2607- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2608
2609- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2610
2611- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2612
2613- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2614 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2615 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2616
2617- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2618 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2619
2620- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2621 lease file.
2622
2623- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2624
2625- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2628
2629- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2630 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2631
2632- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2633
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2635
2636- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2637
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2639
2640- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2641
2642- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2643 pl19.
2644
2645- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2646 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2647 past the regression test.
2648
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2650
2651- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2652 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2653
2654- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2655 DHCPREQUEST.
2656
2657- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2658
2659- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2660
2661- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2662
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2665- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2666 (Damien Neil)
2667
2668- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2669 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2670
2671- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2672 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2673 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2674
2675- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2676 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2677 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2678 message.
2679
2680- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2681 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2682 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2683
98311e4b 2684- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2685 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2686 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2687 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2688 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2689 this way will work.
2690
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2691- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2692
2693- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2694 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2695 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2696 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2697
2698 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2699
2700 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2701
2702- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2703 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2704 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2705
2706- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2707 Hermann Lauer.
2708
2709- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2710 messages.
2711
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2712- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2713 it contained quoted strings.
2714
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2715 ** there was no pl17 **
2716
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2719- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2720 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2721 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2722 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2723 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2724 tracking down memory leaks.
2725
2726- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2727 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2728 Solaris.
2729
2730- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2731 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2732 corruption and core dumps.
2733
2734- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2735 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2736
2737- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2738
2739- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2740 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2741
2742- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2743 name and version to standard output.
2744
2745- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2746
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2747- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2748 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2749
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2750- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2751
2752- Lots of documentation updates.
2753
2754- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2755 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2756
2757- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2758
2759- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2760 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2761
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2763
2764- Some documentation tweaks.
2765
2766- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2767
2768- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2769
2770- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2771 agent options into them.
2772
2773- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2774
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2775- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2776 options.
2777
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2779
2780- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2781 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2782 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2783 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2784 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2785
2786- Fix up documentation.
2787
2788- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2789 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2790
2791- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2792
2793- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2794
2795- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2796 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2797 practical use otherwise.
2798
2799- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2800 for debugging.
2801
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2803
2804- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2805 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2806 dump on some systems.
2807
2808- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2809 option.
2810
2811- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2812 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2813
2814- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2815 that were not printing enough information.
2816
2817- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2818 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2819
2820- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2821 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2822 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2823 were answering.
2824
2825- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2826 the transition.
2827
2828
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2830
2831- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2832
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2833 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2834
2835- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2836 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2837 representation from working correctly.
2838
2839- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2840 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2841 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2842 could spin.
2843
2844- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2845 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2846
2847- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2848 interface name on the command line.
2849
2850- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
2851 client state.
2852
2853- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
2854 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
2855 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
2856 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
2857 added by Ted Lemon.
2858
2859- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
2860 be made to log debugging information and other information.
2861
2862- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
2863 end option.
2864
2865- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
2866 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
2867 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
2868
2869- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
2870 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
2871 face of a null hardware address on input.
2872
2873- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
2874 specified unqualified.
2875
2876- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
2877 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
2878
2879- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
2880 RFC.
2881
2882- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
2883
2884- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
2885
2886- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
2887 it works.
2888
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2889 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
2890
2891- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
2892 to CVS.
2893
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2894 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
2895
2896- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
2897
2898- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
2899 in patchlevel 9.
2900
2901- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
2902 options at renewal time.
2903
2904- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
2905 configuration language.
2906
2907- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
2908
2909- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
2910 done when no client hostname was received.
2911
2912- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
2913
2914- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
2915 the DHCP option space.
2916
2917- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
2918
2919- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
2920 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
2921
2922- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
2923 silently dropped.
2924
2925- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
2926 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
2927
2928- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
2929 will be correctly updated.
2930
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2931 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
2932
2933- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
2934 bounds-checking.
2935
2936 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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2937
2938- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
2939
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2942- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
2943 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
2944 possible to exploit it any further than that.
2945
2946- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
2947 option.
2948
2949- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
2950 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
2951 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
2952 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
2953 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
2954 meaningfully.
2955
2956- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
2957 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
2958 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
2959
2960- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
2961 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
2962 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
2963 this one down!
2964
2965- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
2966 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
2967 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
2968 down and fixing this problem.
2969
2970 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
2971
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2972- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
2973 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
2974
2975- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
2976 environment.
2977
2978- Fix suffix operator.
2979
2980- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
2981
2982- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
2983 connection code.
2984
2985- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
2986
2987- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
2988
2989- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
2990 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
2991
2992- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
2993
2994- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
2995
2996- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
2997 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
2998
2999- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3000 spawn with.
3001
3002- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3003 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3004
3005- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3006 for OMAPI.
3007
3008- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3009 can install in host declarations.
3010
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3011 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3012
3013- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3014 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3015 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3016 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3017 comments)!
3018
3019- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3020
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3021- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3022 request for help on this with patches!
3023
3024- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3025 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3026 lost, they never reconnect.
3027
3028- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3029 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3030
3031- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3032 dump.
3033
3034- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3035 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3036 catching this one.
3037
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3038 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3039
3040- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3041 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3042 lease renewal time.
3043
3044- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3045 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3046 declared without a key.
3047
3048- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3049
3050- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3051 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3052
3053- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3054 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3055 determine the maximum size of the response.
3056
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3057 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3058
359b023e
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3059- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3060 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3061
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3062- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3063 RENEWING client.
3064
3065- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3066
3067- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3068 using memcmp().
3069
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3070 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3071
3072- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3073 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3074 pointing this out.
3075
3076- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3077 exit.
3078
3079- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3080
3081- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3082 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.