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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 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.1
43
44! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
45 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
46 interfaces with the OS.
47 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
48 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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49
50- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
51 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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52
53- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
54 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
55 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
56 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
57 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
58 in v6 mode at configure time.
59 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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60
61- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
62 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
63 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 64 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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66- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
67 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
68 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
69 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 70 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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72- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
73 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
74 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
75 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 76 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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77
78- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
79 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
80 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
81 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 82 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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84- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
85 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 86 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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88- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
89 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
90 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
91 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 92 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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94- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
95 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
96 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
97
98- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
99 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
100 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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102- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
103 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
104 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
105 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
106 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
107 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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109- Documentation fixes
110 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
111 responses to the all-ones address.
112 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
113 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
114
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115- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
116 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
117 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
118 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
119
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120- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
121 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
122
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123- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
124 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
125 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
126
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127- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
128 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
129 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
130 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
131 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
132 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
133 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
134 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
135 enable this except for testing purposes.
136 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
137 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
138
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139- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
140 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
141
142- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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144- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
145 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
146 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
147 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
148 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
149 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
150
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151- Client Script fixes
152 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
153 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
154 the domain search address is link local.
155 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
156 case of the default router information being changed without the address
157 being changed.
158
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159- Documentation cleanup
160 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
161
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162- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
163 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
164
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165- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
166 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
167 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
168 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
169
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170- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
171 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
172 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
173
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174- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
175 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
176
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177- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
178 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
179 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
180 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
181 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
182 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
183
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184- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
185 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
186 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
187 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
188 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
189 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
190 in site.h then server will be terminated
191 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
192
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193 Changes since 4.2.0
194
195- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
196 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
197 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
198 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
199 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
200 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
201
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202- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
203 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
204 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
205 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
206 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
207 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
208
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209- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
210 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
211 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
212
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213- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
214 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
215 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
216 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
217
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218- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
219 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
220
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221- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
222 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
223 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
224
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225- Minor code fixes
226 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
227 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
228 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
229 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
230 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
231 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
232 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
233 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
234 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
235 Thanks to Martin Pala.
236 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
237 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
238
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239- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
240
241- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
242 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
243
244- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
245 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
246
247- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
248 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
249
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250- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
251 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
252 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
253
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254- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
255 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
256
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257- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
258 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
259 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
260
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261- Fixes to lease input and output.
262 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
263 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
264 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
265 characters.
266 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
267 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
268
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269- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
270 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
271 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
272 at Red Hat.
273 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
274 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
275 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
276 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
277
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278- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
279 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
280 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
281 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
282
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283! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
284 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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285 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
286 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
287
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288- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
289 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
290 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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292- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
293 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
294 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
295 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
296 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
297
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298- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
299 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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300 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
301 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
302 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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304! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
305 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
306 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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307 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
308 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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309 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
310
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311- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
312 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
313 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
314
315- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
316 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
317 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
318
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319- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
320 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
321 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
322
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323- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
324 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
325 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
326 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
327 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
328
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329- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
330 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
331 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
332 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
333
c8b189f1 334! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 335 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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336 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
337 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 338 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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339 and reset it's timeout value.
340 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
341
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342- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
343 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
344 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
345 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
346
347 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
348 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
349 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
350
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351- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
352 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
353 when removing the ddns information.
354 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
355
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356- Some fixes for LDAP
357 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
358 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
359 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
360
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361- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
362 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
363
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364 Changes since 4.2.0b2
365
366- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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368 Changes since 4.2.0b1
369
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370- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
371 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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373! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
374 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 375 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 376 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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378- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
379
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380- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
381 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
382 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
383 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
384 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
385
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386- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
387 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
388 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
389 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
390 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
391
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392- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
393
600ee619 394- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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395 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
396
397- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
398 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
399 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
400 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
401 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
402 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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404- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
405 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
406
407 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
408 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
409
410 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
411 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
412
413 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
414 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
415
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416 Changes since 4.2.0a2
417
418- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
419 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
420
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421- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
422 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
423 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 424 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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426- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
427 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
428 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
429 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
430 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
431 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
432 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
433 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
434 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
435
3c941d42 436 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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438- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
439 is no longer truncated to one octet.
440
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441- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
442
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443- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
444 reflect support for prefix delegation.
445
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446- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
447
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448- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
449 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
450 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
451 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
452 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
453 entry for each lease.
454
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455- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
456
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457 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
458
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459- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
460 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 461 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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463- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
464 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
465 Cantrell at Red Hat.
466
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467- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
468 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
469
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470- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
471
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472- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
473 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
474 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
475 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
476 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
477 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
478
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479- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
480 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
481 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
482 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
483 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
484 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
485 FQDN options by default).
486
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487- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
488 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
489 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
490 determined lease time) are omitted.
491
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492- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
493 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
494 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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495
496- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
497 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
498 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
499
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500 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
501
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502- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
503
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504- Validate the argument to the -p option.
505
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506- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
507 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
508 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
509 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
510 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
511
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512- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
513
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514- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
515 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
516 had been deleted from configuration.
517
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518- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
519 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 520 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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521 were being ignored.
522
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523- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
524
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525- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
526 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
527 Nordahl.
528
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529- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
530 dhcpv6 disabled.
531
8d7dca58 532- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 533 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 534
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535- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
536 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
537
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538- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
539 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
540 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
541
542- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
543 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
544 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
545 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
546 fewer system calls.
547
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548- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
549 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
550 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
551 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
552 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
553 Christof Chen.
554
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555- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
556 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
557 and in normal state.
558
559- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
560 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
561
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562- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
563
564- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
565 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
566 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
567
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568- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
569 rather than restarting the listener.
570
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571- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
572 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
573
574- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
575 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
576 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
577
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578- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
579 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
580 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
581 timeouts).
582
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583- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
584 in failover state records.
585
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586! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
587 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
588 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 589 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 590
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591- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
592 processing a DHCPINFORM.
593
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594- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
595 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
596 last option definition is used.
597
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598- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
599 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
600 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
601
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602- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
603 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
604
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605- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
606 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
607 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
608 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
609 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
610 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
611
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612- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
613 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
614 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
615 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
616
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617! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
618 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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620- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
621 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
622
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623- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
624 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
625 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
626 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
627 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 628 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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629 configuration.
630
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631- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
632 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
633
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634- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
635 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
636 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
637 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
638
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639- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
640 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
641 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
642 was always properly set.
643
adbef119 644 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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645
646- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
647 be recognized.
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649 Changes since 4.1.0a2
650
651- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
652 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
653 "abandoned".
654
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655- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
656
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657- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
658 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
659
660- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
661 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
662
663- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 664 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 665
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666- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
667
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668- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
669 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
670 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
671 in future releases.
672
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673- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
674 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
675
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676- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
677 'dhclient -6' support.
678
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679- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
680 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
681 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
682 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
683
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685
686- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
687
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688- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
689
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690- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
691 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
692 only the latter. Fixed.
693
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694- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
695
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696- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
697 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
698
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699- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
700
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701- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
702
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703- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
704 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
705 --enable-early-chroot.
706
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707- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
708 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
709
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710- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
711 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
712 parameter.
713
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714- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
715 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
716
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717- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
718 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
719
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720- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
721
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722- Merged IA_XX related structures.
723
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724- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
725
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726- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
727
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728- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
729 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
730 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
731
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732- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
733 support.
734
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735- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
736 repaired.
737
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738- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
739
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740- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
741
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742- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
743 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
744
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745- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
746 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
747
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748- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
749 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
750
751- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
752 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
753 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
754 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
755 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
756 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
757 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
758 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
759 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
760 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
761 shared-network.
762
763- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
764 configured option values.
765
766- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
767 support class statements.
768
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769- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
770 selection were repaired.
771
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772- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
773 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
774 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
775 by the OS.
776
777- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
778 address.
779
780- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
781 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
782
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783- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
784
785- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
786
787- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
788 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
789
01a54c17 790 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 791
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792- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
793
4cafb815 794- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 795 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 796
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797- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
798 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
799 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
800
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801- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
802 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
803
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804- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
805
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806- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
807 reserved IDs avoided).
808
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809- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
810
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811- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
812 carries a rapid-commit option.
813
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814- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
815 an empty active lease.
816
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817- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
818
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819- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
820 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
821 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
822 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
823
824- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
825
826- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
827 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
828 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
829 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
830 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
831 Christof Chen.
832
833 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
834
835- DHCP now builds on AIX.
836
837- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
838 config file but -6 is not specified.
839
840- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
841
842- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
843 be more helpful.
844
845- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
846 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
847 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
848
849- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
850 was repaired.
851
852- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
853 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
854 been repaired.
855
856- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
857 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
858 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
859
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860- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
861 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
862
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863- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
864 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
865 IPv4 address.
866
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867- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
868 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
869 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
870 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
871 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
872
873- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
874 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
875 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
876
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877- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
878
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879- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
880
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881- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
882 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
883 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
884 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
885 unnecessary logging.
886
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887- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
888 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
889
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890- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
891 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
892 is incompatible is printed.
893
894- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
895 a previously undefined option code.
896
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897- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
898 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
899
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900- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
901 than the year 2000.
902
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903- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
904
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905- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
906
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907- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
908
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909 Changes since 4.0.0b3
910
911- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
912 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
913 configuration.
76db44f9 914
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915- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
916 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
917
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918- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
919 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
920 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 921
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922- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
923 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
924 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
925 a requested address.
926
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927- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
928 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
929 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
930 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
931
932- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
933 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
934 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
935 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
936
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937- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
938 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
939 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
940
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941- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
942 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
943
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944- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
945
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946- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
947 codes through some conditions.
948
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949- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
950 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
951
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952- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
953 seemingly random values.
954
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955- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
956
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957- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
958 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
959 one ever has.
960
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961- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
962 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
963 to a REQUEST.
964
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965- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
966 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
967 level.
968
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969 Changes since 4.0.0b2
970
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971- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
972
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973- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
974 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
975 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
976 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
977 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
978
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979- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
980 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
981 new address.
982
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983 Changes since 4.0.0b1
984
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985- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
986 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
987 simultaneously on a single interface.
988
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989- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
990 of service under unusual server configurations
991
992- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
993
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994- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
995 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 996
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997- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
998 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
999 on every pool rebalance run.
1000
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1001- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1002 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1003
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1004- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1005 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1006
ab3a540f 1007 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1008
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1009- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1010 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1011
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1012- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1013 point out the problem.
1014
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1015- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1016 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1017 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1018
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1019- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1020 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1021
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1022- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1023 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1024 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1025
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1026- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1027
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1028- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1029 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1030
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1031- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1032 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1033 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1034 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1035
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1036- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1037
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1038- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1039 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1040 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1041 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1042 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1043
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1044- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1045
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1046 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1047
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1048- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1049 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1050
763cba6b 1051- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1052
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1053- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1054 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1055 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1056
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1057- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1058
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1059- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1060 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1061
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1062- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1063 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1064 loaded from persistent storage.
1065
45d545f0 1066- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1067 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1068 necessary.
1069
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1070- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1071 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1072 rapid-commit option.
1073
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1074- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1075 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1076
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1077 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1078
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1079- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1080 and fix.
1081
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1082- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1083
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1084- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1085
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1086- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1087 for when loading configuration.
1088
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1089- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1090 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1091 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1092
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1093- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1094 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1095 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1096 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1097
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1098- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1099
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1100- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1101 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1102
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1103- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1104
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1105- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1106
1107- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1108 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1109
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1110- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1111 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1112
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1113- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1114
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1115- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1116 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1117
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1118 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1119
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1120- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1121
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1122- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1123 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1124
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1125- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1126
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1127- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1128 initialized.
1129
1130- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1131
1132- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1133 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1134
1135- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1137- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1138
1139- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1140 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1141
1142- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1143
8ea19a71 1144- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1145 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1146
1147- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1148 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1149
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1150- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1151
1152- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1153
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1154- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1155
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1156 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1157
1158- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1159 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1160 no support currently for both.
1161
1162- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1163 IAADDR option.
1164
1165- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1166 options.
1167
1168- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1169
1170- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1171 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1172
1173- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1174 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1175 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1176
1177- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1178 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1179
1180- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1181 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1182 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1183 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1184 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1185 differently, they both use the same code here).
1186
1187- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1188 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1189 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1190
1191- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1192
1193- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1194 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1195 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1196 it should not intercept.
1197
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1198 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1199
1200- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1201 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1202 between primary and secondary.
1203
1204- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1205 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1206 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1207
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1208- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1209
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1210- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1211 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1212 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1213 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1214 or REQUEST messages.
1215
1216- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1217 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1218
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1219- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1220
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1221 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1222
1223- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1224 failover protected subnets was removed.
1225
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1226 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1227
1228- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1229 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1230 odd number of leases).
1231
1232- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1233 rebalance run, and one after.
1234
1235- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1236 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1237 processing these messages.
1238
fe5b0fdd 1239 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1240
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1241- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1242 objects.
1243
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1244- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1245 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1246 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1247 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1248 at Allianz.
1249
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1250- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1251 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1252
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1253- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1254 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1255
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1256- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1257 caused the server to abort.
1258
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1259- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1260 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1261 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1262
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1263- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1264 by empty spaces would not get included.
1265
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1266- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1267 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1268
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1269- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1270 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1271
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1272- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1273 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1274
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1275- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1276 on the parameter request list.
1277
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1278 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1279
1280- Some spelling fixes.
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1282 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1283
1284- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1285 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1286
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1287- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1288 domain-search option syntax.
1289
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1290 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1291
1292- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1293 hash table was repaired.
1294
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1295- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1296 entering normal state.
1297
1298- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1299 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1300 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1301
1302- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1303 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 1304
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1305- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1306 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1307 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1308 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1309
45d545f0 1310- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1311 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1312 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1313 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1314 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1315 to their needs.
1316
1317- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1318 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1319 run will attempt balance.
1320
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1321- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1322
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1323 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1324
1325- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1326 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1327 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1328 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1329
98bd7ca0 1330- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1331 was introduced.
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1332
1333- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1334 via OMAPI.
1335
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1336- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1337 the protocol draft.
1338
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1339- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1340 one does not already exist on the system.
1341
b43c87ad 1342- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1343
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1344- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1345 matches RFC 3074.
1346
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1347- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1348 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1349 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1351- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1352 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1353 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1354
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1355- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1356 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1357 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1358 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1359
1360- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1361 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1362 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1363 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1364
f7fdb216 1365- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1366 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1367 DHCPv6 support.
1368
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1369- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1370 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1371 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1372
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1373- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1374 have been incorporated.
1375
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1376- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1377 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1378 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1379 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1380 that belong to the peer in need.
1381
1382- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1383 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1384
1385- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1386 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1387 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1388
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1389- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1390 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1391
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1392- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1393 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1394 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1395 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1396 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1397
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1398- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1399 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1400 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1401 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1402
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1403- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1404 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1405 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1406 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1407 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1408 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1409 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1410 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1411 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1412
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1413- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1414 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1415
41e45067 1416- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1417 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1418 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1419 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1420
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1421- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1422 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1423 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1424 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1425
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1426- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1427 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1428 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1429 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1430 via Robin Breathe.
1431
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1432- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1433 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1434 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1435 from Christof Chen.
1436
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1437- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1438 formally supported.
1439
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1440 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1441
1442- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1443 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1444
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1445 Changes since 3.0.5
1446
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1447- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1448 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1449 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1450 they actually received.
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1451
1452- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1453
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1454- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1455 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1456 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1457 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1458
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1459- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1460
d69fb6a8 1461- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1462 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1463
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1464- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1465 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1466 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1467 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1468 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1469 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1470 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1471 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1472
1473- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1474 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1475 'file' field.
02428754 1476
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1477- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1478 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1479
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1480- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1481 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1482 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1483
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1484- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1485 from Chris Wagner.
1486
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1487- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1488 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1489 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1490
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1491- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1492 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1493 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1494 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1495 was set.
1496
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1497- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1498 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1499
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1500- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1501 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1502 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1503 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1504 active ones.
1505
02428754 1506 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1507
901306d5 1508- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1509 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1510 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1511 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1512 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1513
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1514- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1515 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1516
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1517 Changes since 3.0.4
1518
1519- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1520 scopes are actually global has been added.
1521
1522- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1523 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1524 known to be damaging.
1525
1526- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1527 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1528 balancing).
1529
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1530- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1531 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1532 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1533
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1534- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1535 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1536 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1537
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1538- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1539 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1540 more clear now.
1541
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1542- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1543 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1544 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1545 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1546 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1547 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1549- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1550 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1551
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1552- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1553 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1554 made possible.
1555
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1556- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1557 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1558 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1559
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1560- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1561 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1562
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1563- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1564 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1565 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1566
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1567- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1568 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1569 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1570 value with the later configured value).
1571
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1572- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1573 have been named and documented.
1574
1575- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1576 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1577 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1578 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1579 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1580 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1581 write new output.
1582
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1583 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1584
1585- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1586 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1587
1588 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1589
1590- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1591 mailing list.
1592
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1593 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1594
45d545f0 1595- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1596 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1597
1598- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1599 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1600
1601- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1602 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1603 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1604 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1605
1606- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1607 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1608 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1609 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1610 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1611 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1612 transition (properly).
1613
1614- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1615
1616 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1617
1618- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1619 STDIN after reading one line.
1620
1621- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1622 descriptor it opened twice.
1623
1624- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1625 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1626 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1627
1628 Changes since 3.0.3
1629
1630- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1631 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1632 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1633
1634- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1635 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1636 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1637
1638- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1639 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1640 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1641 leases to allocate.
1642
1643- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1644 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1645 than the entire block of them.
1646
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1647! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1648 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1649 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1650 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1651 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1652 to a patch from infamous42md.
1653
1654! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1655 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1656 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1657 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1658 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1659 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1660
1661- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1662 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1663 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1664
1665- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1666 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1667
1668- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1669 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1670 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1671 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1672 transitional states.
1673
1674- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1675 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1676 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1677
1678- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1679 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1680 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1681
1682- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1683 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1684
1685- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1686 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1687
1688- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1689 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1690 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1691
1692- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1693 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1694
1695- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1696 repaired.
1697
1698- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1699 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1700 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1701 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1702
1703- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1704 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1705 data.
1706
1707- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1708 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1709 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1710 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1711 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1712
1713- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1714 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1715 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1716 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1717 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1718
1719- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1720 has been repaired.
1721
1722- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1723 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1724 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1725 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1726 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1727
1728- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1729 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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1732 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1733 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1734 move to 3.[01].x.
1735
1736- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1737 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1738
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1739 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1740
1741- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1742 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1743
1744- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1745 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1746 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1747 workaround.
1748
1749 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1750
1751- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1752 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1753
1754 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1755
1756- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1757 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1758 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1759
1760- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1761 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1762 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1763
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1764 Changes since 3.0.2
1765
1766- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1767 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1768 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1769
1770- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1771 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1772 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1773 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1774 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1775
1776- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1777 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1778 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1779
1780- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1781 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1782 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1783
1784- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1785 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1786 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1787 Peter Poeml.
1788
1789- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1790 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1791
1792- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1793 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1794 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1795 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1796 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1797 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1798
1799- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1800 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1801 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1802 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1803
1804- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1805 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1806 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1807 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1808
1809- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1810 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1811
1812- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1813 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1814 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1815
1816- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1817 7 bytes, and failover.
1818
1819- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1820 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1821 at Red Hat.
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1822
1823- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1824 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1825 should work better.
1826
1827- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1828 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1829 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1830
1831- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1832 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1833 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1834
1835 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1836
1837- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1838 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1839
1840 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1841
45d545f0 1842- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1843 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1844 overloading. This was repaired.
1845
1846- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1847 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1848 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1849 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1850 three chunks to fit.
1851
1852- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1853 were repaired.
1854
1855- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1856 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1857 leak).
1858
1859 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1860
1861- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1862 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1863
1864 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1865
1866- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1867
1868 Changes since 3.0.1
1869
1870- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1871 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1872 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1873
1874- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1875 name was not provided by the server.
1876
1877- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1878 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1879
1880- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1881 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1882
1883- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1884 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1885
1886- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1887
1888- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1889
1890- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1891 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1892 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1893 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1894 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1895
1896- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1897 the configuration be globally scoped.
1898
1899- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1900 Farkas.
1901
1902- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1903 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1904
1905- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1906 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1907
1908- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1909 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1910
1911- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1912 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1913 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1914 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1915
1916- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1917 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1918 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1919 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1920
1921- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1922 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1923 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1924
1925- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1926
1927- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1928 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1929 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1930
1931- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1932 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1933 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1934 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1935 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1936
1937- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1938 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1939
1940- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1941 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1942
1943- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1944 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1945 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1946 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1947
1948- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1949 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1950
1951- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1952 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1953 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1954
1955- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1956 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1957 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1958 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1959 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1960 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1961
1962- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1963 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1964 Infoblox.
1965
1966- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1967
1968- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1969 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1970 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1971 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1972 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1973 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1974 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1975
1976- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1977 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1978 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
1979
1980- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
1981 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
1982 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
1983
1984- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
1985
1986 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
1987
1988- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
1989 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
1990 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
1991 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
1992 systems either.
1993
1994- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
1995
1996- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
1997 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
1998 is false.
1999
2000- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2001 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2002
2003- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2004
2005 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2006
2007! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2008 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2009 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2010 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2011 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2012 both finding and solving the problem.
2013
2014! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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2016 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2017 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2018 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2019 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2020 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2021 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2022 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2023 published version of ISC DHCP.
2024
2025- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2026
2027- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2028
2029 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2030
2031- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2032 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2033 Richard Hirst.
2034
2035- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2036 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2037 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2038
2039- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2040
2041- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2042 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2043 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2044 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2045
2046- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2047 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2048
2049- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2050 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2051
2052- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2053
2054 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2055
2056- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2057 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2058
2059- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2060 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2061 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2062
2063- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2064 by name was fixed.
2065
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2067 longer result in error.
2068
2069- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2070
2071- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2072 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2073 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2074
2075- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2076 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2077
2078- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2079 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2080 Blapp.
2081
2082- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2083 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2084 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2085 Martin Blapp.
2086
2087- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2088 expiry times in failover configurations.
2089
2090- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2091 Steve G.
2092
2093- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2094 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2095
2096- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2097 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2098 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2099 now "unknown-144".
2100
2101- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2102 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2103
2104 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2105
2106- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2107
2108- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2109 not be bash.
2110
2111- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2112
2113- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2114 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2115 that errored before will now work properly.
2116
2117- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2118 names was repaired.
2119
2120- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2121 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2122 configuration file.
2123
2124- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2125 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2126
2127- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2128 error rather than a null dereference.
2129
2130 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2131
2132- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2133
2134- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2135
2136- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2137 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2138
2139- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2140
2141- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2142
2143- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2144 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2145 self-corrupting lease databases.
2146
2147- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2148
2149- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2150 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2151
2152- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2153
2154- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2155
2156- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2157 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2158 Ling Gou.
2159
2160- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2161 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2162
2163- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2164 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2165 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2166
2167- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2168 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2169
2170 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2171
2172- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2173 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2174
2175- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2176
2177- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2178 a memory leak.
2179
2180- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2181 script.
2182
2183- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2184
2185- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2186
2187- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2188
2189- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2190
2191- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2192
2193- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2194
2195- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2196
2197- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2198
2199- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2200
2201- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2202
2203- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2204
2205- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2206
2207 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2208
2209- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2210 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2211 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2212
2213 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2214
2215- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2216 to be renewed.
2217
2218- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2219 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2220
2221- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2222 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2223
2224- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2225 that two permit lists matched.
2226
2227- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2228 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2229
2230- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2231
2232- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2233 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2234
2235- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2236
2237- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2238
2239- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2240 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2241 going to update its A record.
2242
2243- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2244 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2245 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2246 DNS server.
2247
2248- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2249
2250- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2251
2252- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2253 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2254 NetBSD project).
2255
2256- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2257 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2258
2259- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2260 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2261
2262- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2263
2264- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2265
2266- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2267 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2268 failover protocol standard.
2269
2270- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2271 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2272 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2273
2274- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2275 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2276 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2277 do so.
2278
2279- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2280
2281 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2282
2283- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2284
2285- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2286 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2287
2288- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2289 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2290
2291- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2292 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2293 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2294
2295- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2296 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2297 network, merge the two pools.
2298
2299- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2300 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2301 fix this bug.
2302
2303 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2304
2305- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2306 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2307
2308- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2309 the same case.
2310
2311- Additional documentation.
2312
2313- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2314 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2315
2316 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2317
2318- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2319- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2320
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2322
2323- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2324 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2325 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2326 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2327 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2328
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2330
2331- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2332 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2333 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2334 wasn't the one that removed it.
2335
2336- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2337 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2338 were not configured.
2339
2340- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2341
2342- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2343 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2344 routing information.
2345
2346- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2347 request being sent.
2348
2349- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2350 done.
2351
2352- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2353 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2354 were pending.
2355
2356- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2357 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2358 problems with failover.
2359
2360- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2361 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2362 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2363
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2365
2366- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2367 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2368
2369- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2370 no object is open, it dumps core.
2371
2372- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2373
2374- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2375
2376- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2377
2378- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2379 a host object attribute with a null value.
2380
2381 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2382
2383- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2384
2385- Fix an obscure core dump.
2386
2387- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2388 when crucial information is left out.
2389
2390- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2391
2392- Documentation updates.
2393
2394 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2395
2396- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2397
2398- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2399 structure wasn't zeroed.
2400
2401- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2402 incorrectly.
2403
2404- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2405 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2406 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2407 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2408 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2409 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2410 restarted.
2411
2412 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2413
2414- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2415 in failover-enabled pools.
2416
2417- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2418 declarations).
2419
2420- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2421 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2422
2423- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2424 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2425
2426- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2427
2428- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2429 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2430
2431- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2432
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2434
2435- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2436
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2437 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2438
2439- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2440
2441- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2442
2443- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2444
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2445 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2446
2447- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2448 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2449 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2450
2451- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2452 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2453 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2454 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2455 string.
2456
2457- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2458
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2459 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2460
2461- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2462 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2463
2464- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2465 malformed packets.
2466
2467- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2468
2469- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2470 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2471 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2472
2473- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2474
2475- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2476
2477- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2478
2479- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2480 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2481
2482- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2483 tcp connections from being played back.
2484
2485- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2486 on exit.
2487
2488- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2489
2490- Add some configurability to the build system.
2491
2492- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2493
2494- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2495 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2496 hadn't been noticed until now.
2497
2498 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2499
2500- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2501 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2502
2503- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2504 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2505 conformant, but also didn't work).
2506
2507- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2508 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2509
2510- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2511 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2512
2513- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2514 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2515
2516- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2517 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2518
2519- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2520 doing failover.
2521
2522- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2523 running on alpha processors.
2524
2525- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2526 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2527
2528- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2529
2530- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2531
2532- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2533 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2534
2535- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2536
2537- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2538 actually named (key names are domain names).
2539
2540- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2541
2542- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2543 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2544
2545- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2546 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2547
2548- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2549 statements.
2550
2551- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2552 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2553
2554- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2555 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2556 operating.
2557
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2559
2560- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2561 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2562 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2563 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2564
2565- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2566 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2567
2568- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2569
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2570 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2571
2572- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2573 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2574
2575- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2576 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2577 to the chain.
2578
2579- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2580
2581- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2582
2583- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2584
98311e4b 2585- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2586 attribute values in omshell.
2587
98311e4b 2588- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2589
2590- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2591
2592 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2593
2594- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2595 DHCPDECLINE.
2596
2597- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2598
2599- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2600 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2601 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2602
2603- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2604
2605- Documentation fixes.
2606
2607- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2608 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2609
2610- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2611 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2612
2613- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2614
2615- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2616
2617- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2618 case-insensitive.
2619
2620- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2621
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2623 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2624 consistently.
2625
2626- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2627 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2628
2629- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2630
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2631 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2632
2633- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2634 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2635 result of duplicate leases.
2636
2637- Document OMAPI server objects.
2638
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2639 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2640
2641- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2642 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2643
2644- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2645 core dumps.
2646
2647- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2648 Friedrich.
2649
2650- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2651
2652 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2653
2654- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2655 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2657 billing class code.
2658
2659- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2660 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2661
2662- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2663 trace file.
2664
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2667- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2668 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2669 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2670 e.g., Digital Unix.
2671
2672- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2673 when no error had occurred.
2674
2675- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2676 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2677 non-communicating state.
2678
2679- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2680
2681- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2682 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2683 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2684
2685- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2686 when the client lease expired.
2687
2688- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2689 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2690 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2691 in testing.
2692
2693- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2694 the command line, it would fail.
2695
2696- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2697 user impact).
2698
2699- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2700
2701- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2702 they're executable.
2703
2704 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2706- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2707 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2708 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2709 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2710
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2711- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
2712 Transmeta.
2713
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2714- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2715 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2716 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2717 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2718
2719- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2720 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2721
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2722 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
2723
2724- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2725 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2726
2727- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2728
2729- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2730
2731- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2732
2733- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2734
2735- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2736
2737- Update some parts of the README file.
2738
2739- Support GCC on SCO.
2740
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2742
2743- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2744 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2745
2746- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2747 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2748 unbill the old class.
2749
2750- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2751 process the state transition immediately.
2752
2753- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2754 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2755
2756- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2757
2758- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2759
2760- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2761
2762- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2763
2764- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2765 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2766 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2767
2768- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2769 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2770
2771- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2772 lease file.
2773
2774- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2775
2776- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2779
2780- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2781 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2782
2783- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2784
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2786
2787- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2788
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2790
2791- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2792
2793- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2794 pl19.
2795
2796- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2797 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2798 past the regression test.
2799
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2801
2802- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2803 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2804
2805- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2806 DHCPREQUEST.
2807
2808- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2809
2810- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2811
2812- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2813
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2816- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2817 (Damien Neil)
2818
2819- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2820 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2821
2822- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2823 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2824 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2825
2826- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2827 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2828 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2829 message.
2830
2831- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2832 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2833 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2834
98311e4b 2835- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2836 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2837 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2838 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2839 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2840 this way will work.
2841
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2842- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2843
2844- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2845 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2846 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2847 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2848
2849 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2850
2851 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2852
2853- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2854 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2855 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2856
2857- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2858 Hermann Lauer.
2859
2860- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2861 messages.
2862
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2863- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2864 it contained quoted strings.
2865
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2866 ** there was no pl17 **
2867
adbef119 2868 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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2870- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2871 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2872 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2873 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2874 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2875 tracking down memory leaks.
2876
2877- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2878 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2879 Solaris.
2880
2881- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2882 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2883 corruption and core dumps.
2884
2885- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2886 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2887
2888- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2889
2890- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2891 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2892
2893- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2894 name and version to standard output.
2895
2896- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2897
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2898- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2899 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2900
6da9db9d
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2901- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2902
2903- Lots of documentation updates.
2904
2905- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2906 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2907
2908- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2909
2910- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2911 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2912
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2914
2915- Some documentation tweaks.
2916
2917- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2918
2919- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2920
2921- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2922 agent options into them.
2923
2924- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2925
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2926- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2927 options.
2928
adbef119 2929 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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2930
2931- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2932 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2933 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2934 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2935 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2936
2937- Fix up documentation.
2938
2939- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2940 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2941
2942- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2943
2944- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2945
2946- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2947 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2948 practical use otherwise.
2949
2950- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2951 for debugging.
2952
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2954
2955- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2956 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2957 dump on some systems.
2958
2959- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2960 option.
2961
2962- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2963 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2964
2965- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2966 that were not printing enough information.
2967
2968- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2969 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2970
2971- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2972 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2973 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2974 were answering.
2975
2976- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2977 the transition.
2978
2979
adbef119 2980 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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2981
2982- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
2983
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2984 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
2985
2986- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
2987 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
2988 representation from working correctly.
2989
2990- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
2991 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
2992 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
2993 could spin.
2994
2995- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
2996 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
2997
2998- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
2999 interface name on the command line.
3000
3001- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3002 client state.
3003
3004- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3005 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3006 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3007 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3008 added by Ted Lemon.
3009
3010- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3011 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3012
3013- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3014 end option.
3015
3016- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3017 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3018 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3019
3020- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3021 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3022 face of a null hardware address on input.
3023
3024- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3025 specified unqualified.
3026
3027- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3028 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3029
3030- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3031 RFC.
3032
3033- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3034
3035- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3036
3037- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3038 it works.
3039
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3040 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3041
3042- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3043 to CVS.
3044
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3045 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3046
3047- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3048
3049- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3050 in patchlevel 9.
3051
3052- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3053 options at renewal time.
3054
3055- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3056 configuration language.
3057
3058- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3059
3060- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3061 done when no client hostname was received.
3062
3063- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3064
3065- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3066 the DHCP option space.
3067
3068- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3069
3070- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3071 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3072
3073- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3074 silently dropped.
3075
3076- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3077 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3078
3079- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3080 will be correctly updated.
3081
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3082 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3083
3084- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3085 bounds-checking.
3086
3087 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3088
3089- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3090
3922772a 3091 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3092
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3093- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3094 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3095 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3096
3097- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3098 option.
3099
3100- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3101 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3102 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3103 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3104 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3105 meaningfully.
3106
3107- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3108 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3109 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3110
3111- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3112 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3113 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3114 this one down!
3115
3116- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3117 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3118 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3119 down and fixing this problem.
3120
3121 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3122
0f6045f8
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3123- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3124 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3125
3126- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3127 environment.
3128
3129- Fix suffix operator.
3130
3131- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3132
3133- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3134 connection code.
3135
3136- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3137
3138- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3139
3140- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3141 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3142
3143- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3144
3145- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3146
3147- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3148 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3149
3150- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3151 spawn with.
3152
3153- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3154 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3155
3156- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3157 for OMAPI.
3158
3159- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3160 can install in host declarations.
3161
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3162 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3163
3164- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3165 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3166 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3167 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3168 comments)!
3169
3170- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3171
6ed7a93d
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3172- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3173 request for help on this with patches!
3174
3175- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3176 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3177 lost, they never reconnect.
3178
3179- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3180 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3181
3182- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3183 dump.
3184
3185- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3186 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3187 catching this one.
3188
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3189 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3190
3191- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3192 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3193 lease renewal time.
3194
3195- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3196 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3197 declared without a key.
3198
3199- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3200
3201- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3202 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3203
3204- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3205 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3206 determine the maximum size of the response.
3207
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3208 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3209
359b023e
TL
3210- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3211 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3212
592d8153
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3213- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3214 RENEWING client.
3215
3216- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3217
3218- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3219 using memcmp().
3220
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3221 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3222
3223- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3224 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3225 pointing this out.
3226
3227- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3228 exit.
3229
3230- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3231
3232- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3233 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.