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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
d618ba48 2 Version 4.4.0-pre-alpha
33dca28a 3 29 March 2016
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
cb0d7e7c 21This release also adds support for the standard DDNS as described in the
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22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
1e08558f 56
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57- Insert the raw data from a fully encapsualted option into the option cache.
58 This allows "exists" to check for the option if any sub options exist. It
59 also adds the raw data to the environment variables supplied to the client
60 script.
61 [ISC-Bugs #39863]
62
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63- Removed an extraneous expression in omapi socket callback function. Prior
64 to this change, the logic was techinically incorrect but other factors
65 ensured the outcome itself was correct. This change was made primarily
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66 for code clarity. Thanks to Ganesh Pinjala for bringing the issue to our
67 attention.
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68 [ISC-Bugs #42834]
69
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70- Corrected a bug which could cause the server to sporadically crash while
71 loading lease files with the lease-id-format is set to "hex". Our thanks
72 to Jay Ford, University of Iowa for reporting the issue.
73 [ISC-Bugs #43185]
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75- Pass configure arguments which begin with an upper case letter, e.g.
76 CFLAGS, to the embedded bind configure, so it is no longer required
77 to use environment variables to get the same effect.
78 [ISC-Bugs #35143]
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80- Added --enable-kqueue, --enable-epoll, --enable-devpoll and a more
81 general --with-bind-extra-config to pass extra options to the
82 embedded bind configure. Note we had mixed experiences with this
54ee18cf 83 so it is at the user risk, i.e., they are NOT SUPPORTED yet.
f285576d 84 [ISC-Bugs #20890]
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86- Changed the way the embedded bind Makefile is updated by configure.
87 The only user visible side effect is that --with-libbind now requires
88 either "no" or an (absolute) path, i.e. "yes" is no longer valid.
89 [ISC-Bugs #43227]
90
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91- Eliminated a noisy, but otherwise harmless debug log statment that may
92 appear during server startup when building with --enable-binary-leases
93 and configuring multiple pools in a shared network. Thanks to Fernando
94 Soto from BlueCat Networks for reporting the issue and supplying a patch.
95 [ISC-Bugs #43262]
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97- Added the support for git repositories in the util/bind.sh script.
98 When you build ISC DHCP from a git repo, i.e., without a "bind"
99 directory populated as in the release distribution file, you may now
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100 create the bind directory, change to it and clone the private
101 (repo.isc.org/proj/git/prod/bind9.git) or the public
290a7613 102 (https://source.isc.org/git/bind9.git) git repository into
d163c8f7 103 bind/bind9 and then invoke the util/bind.sh script as usual.
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104 [ISC-Bugs #43236]
105
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106- Use the embedded bind libraries where they are built (vs where they
107 are installed).
108 [ISC-Bugs #39319]
109
d618ba48 110 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
0b0a1399 111
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112- Tidy up several small tickets.
113 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
114 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
115 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
116 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
117 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
118 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
119 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
120 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
121 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
122 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
e105afa1 123
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124- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
125 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
4f553fea 126
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127- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
128 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
129 Popelka at Red Hat.
130 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
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132- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
133 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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135- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
136 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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138- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
139 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
140 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
ad06e7ba 141
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142- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
143 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
144 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
145 option in the list.
146 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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148- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
149 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
150 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
151 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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153- Remove unused RCSID tags.
154 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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156- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
157 for MRT limit it to MRD.
158 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
159 [ISC-Bugs #21238
3abc5708 160
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161- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
162 when a server, relay or client are killed.
163 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
164 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
10b7683e 165
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166- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
167 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
168 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
169 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
170 given the "-1" argument.
171 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
172 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
173 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
174 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
175 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
176 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
177 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
178 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
179 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
21f3982a 180
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181- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
182 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
183 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
184 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
185 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
186 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
187 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
188 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
189 to syslog.
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191- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
192 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
193 number in syslog messages.
194 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
195 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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197- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
198 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
199 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
200 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
201 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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203- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
204 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
205 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
206 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
207 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
208 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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210- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
211 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
212 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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214- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
215 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
216 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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218- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
219 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
220 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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222- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
223 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
224 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
225 in a pool are used.
226 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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228- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
229 on an error condition.
230 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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232- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
233 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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235- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
236 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
237 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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239- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
240 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
241 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
242 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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244- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
245 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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247- Tidy up receive packet processing.
248 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
249 a possible patch.
250 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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252- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
253 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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255- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
256 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
257 and hmac-sha512
258 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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260- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
261 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 262 patch.
d618ba48 263 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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265- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
266 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
267 provided the patch.
268 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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270- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
271 after the configuration file has been processed.
272 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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274- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
275 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
276 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
277 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
278 compilers that was introduced by #36712
a3471269 279
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280- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
281 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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283- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
284 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
285 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
286 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
287 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
288 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
289 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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291- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
292 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
293 bug report and patch.
294 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
295 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
296 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
297 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
298 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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300- Addressed checksum issues:
301 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
302 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
303 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
304 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
305 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
306 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
307 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
308 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
309 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
310 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
311 than being dropped.
312 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
313 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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315- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
316 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
317 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
318 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
319 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
320 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
321 inbound request to a known subnet.
322 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
323 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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325- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
326 BOOTP request handling.
327 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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329- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
330 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
331 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
332 the patch upon which the fix is based.
333 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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335- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
336 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
337 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
338 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
339 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
340 modified to send requests more often.
341 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
342 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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344- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
345 name from the following in order of preference:
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347 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
348 2. Host name option if provided by the client
349 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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351 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
352 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
353 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
354 and no other value is available.
355 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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357- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
358 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
359 corrected.
360 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
361 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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363- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
364 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
365 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
366 components.
367 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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369- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
370 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
371 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
372 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
373 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
374 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
375 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
376 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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378- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
379 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
380 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
381 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
382 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
383 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
384 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
385 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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387- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
388 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
389 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
390 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
391 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
392 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
393 bug and supplying a patch.
394 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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396- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
397 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
398 leae expiration code.
399 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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401- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
402 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
403 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
404 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
405 files.
406 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
407 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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409- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
410 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
411 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
412 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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414- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
415 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
416 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
417 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
418 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
419 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
420 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
421 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
422 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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424- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
425 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
426 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
427 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
428 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
429 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
430 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
431 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
432 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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434- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
435 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
436 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
437 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
438 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
439 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
440 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
441 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
442 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
443 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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445- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
446 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
447 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
448 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
449 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
450 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
451 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
452 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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454- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
455 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
456 bug report and patch.
457 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
458
459- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
460 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
461 code consistent across versions.
462 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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464- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
465 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
466 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
467 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
468 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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469 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
470 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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472- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
473 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
474 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
475 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
476 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
477 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
478 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
479 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
480 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
481 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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482 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for this issue and his patch which
483 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 484 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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486- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
487 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
488 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
489 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 490 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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492- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
493 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
494 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
495 a proper length for it.
496 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
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498- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
499 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
500 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
501 reasonable to remove it.
502 [ISC-Buts #39019]
503
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cacce092 505 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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506 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
507 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
508
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509- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
510 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
511 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
512 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
513 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
514
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515- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
516 table 3.
517 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
518
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519- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
520 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
521 the issue and suggesting the patch.
522 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
523
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524- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
525 of as a token.
526 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
527
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528- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
529 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
530 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
531 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
532 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
533 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
534 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
535
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537 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
538 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
539 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
540
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541- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
542 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
543 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
544
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547 for the bug report.
cca6a648 548 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
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550- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
551 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
552 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
553 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
554 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 555 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 556 reporting the issue.
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557 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
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559- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
560 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
561 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
562 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
563 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
564 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
565 itself.
566 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
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568- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
569 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
570 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
571 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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573- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
574 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
575 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
576 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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578- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
579 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
580 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
581 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
582 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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585 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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586 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
587 issue.
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588 [ISC-Bugs #39978]
589
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591 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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593 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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595 contributions (alphabetically):
596 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 597 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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598 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
599 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 600 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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601 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
602 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
603 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
604 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
605 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
606 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
607 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
608 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
609 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
610 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
611 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
612 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
613 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
614 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
615
af25ded3 616- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
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618 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 619 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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621- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
622 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
623 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
624 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
625 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
626
45adf35c 627- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 628 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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630 the issue.
4e1bf548 631 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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634 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
635 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
636 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
637 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
638 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
639 tests.
640 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
641 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
642 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
643 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
644 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
645 use the command "make -k check".
646 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
647
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648- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
649 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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651- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
652 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
653 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
654 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
655 keep the previous behavior.
656 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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658- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
659 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
660 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
661 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
662 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
663 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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665- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
666 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
667 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
668 address them.
669 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
670 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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672- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
673 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
674 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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676- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
677 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
678 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
679 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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681- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
682 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
683 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
684 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
685 not show a value.
686 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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688- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
689 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
690 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
691 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
692 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
693 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
694 he provided.
695 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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697- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
698 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
699 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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701- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
702 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
703 the issue and supplying the patches.
704 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
705 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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707- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
708 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
709 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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711- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
712 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
713 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
714 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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716- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
717 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
718 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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720! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
721 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
722 patch.
723 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
724 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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726- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
727 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
728 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
729 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
730 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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732- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
733 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
734 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
735 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
736 the software to fail.
737 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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739- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
740 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
741 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
742 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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744- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
745 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
746 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
747 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
748 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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750- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
751 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
752 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
753 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
754 update as an "invalid state transition".
755 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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757- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
758 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
759 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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761- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
762 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
763 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
764 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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766- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
767 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
768 modified to work as infinite.
769 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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771- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
772 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
773 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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775- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
776 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
777 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
778 option as per RFC 6939.
779 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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781- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
782 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
783 for cross compilation.
784 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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786- Add more option definitions.
787 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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789- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
790 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
791 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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793- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
794 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
795 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
796 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
797 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
798 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
799 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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801- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
802 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
803 feature.
804 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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806- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
807 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
808 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
809 relay.
810 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
811 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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813- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
814 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
815 Section 22.4.
816 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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818- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
819 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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821- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
822 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
823 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
824 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
825 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
826 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
827 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
828 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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830- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
831 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
832 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
833 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
834 submitting a patch
835 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
836 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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838- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
839 decoding a packet.
840 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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842- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
843 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
844 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
845 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
846 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
847 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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850 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
851 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
852 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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854- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
855 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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857- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
858 of circuit id length.
859 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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861- Add support for including an encapsulated option in a response
862 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
863 returned in responses.
864 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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866- Add logic to test directory Makefiles to avoid copying Attfile(s)
867 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
868 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
869 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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871- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
872 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
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873 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but not used
874 by the client retained the client hostname from the original
875 client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University
876 for reporting the issue.
d618ba48 877 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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879- In the LDAP code and schema add some missing '6' characters to use
880 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
881 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
882 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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884- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
885 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
886 a cut and paste error.
887 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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889- Modify the DDNS code to clean up the PTR record even if there
890 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
891 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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893- Added global configuration parameter, abandon-lease-time, which determines
894 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
895 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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897 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
898 with us to produce a viable solution.
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901- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
902 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
903 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
904 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
905 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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d618ba48 907- Updates to contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to make it more friendly.
2b5c8201 908 The updates are: looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
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910 output. Thanks to Cameron Paine (cbp at null dot net) for the
911 patch.
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915 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
916 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
917 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
918 verify the problem and fix.
919 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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922 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
923 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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927 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
928 it runs out.
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932 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
933 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
934 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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938 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
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942- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
943 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
944 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
945 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
946 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
947 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 948 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 949 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 950 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 951 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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953- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
954 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
955 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
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958 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
959 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
960 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 961 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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963- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
964 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
965 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
966 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
967 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
968 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
969
a7341359 970- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
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973- Add support for using classes with v6.
974 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
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976- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
977 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
978 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
979 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
980 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
981 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
982 that work with some modifications.
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986 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
987 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
988 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
989 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
990 not recommended.
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994 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
995 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
996 This is "Server starting service.".
997 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
998 its failover peer are in the normal state.
999 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
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1003 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
1004 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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1006 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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1008 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
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1013 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
1014 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
1015 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
1016 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
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1018- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
1019 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
1020 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
1021 one instance of their respective address types.
1022 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
4d079f0e 1023
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1024- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
1025 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
1026 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
1027 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 1028 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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1029 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
1030 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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1032- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
1033 and take host declarations into account.
1034 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
1035 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
1036
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1037- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
1038 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
1039 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
1040 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 1041
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1042- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
1043 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 1044 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
bc30c84e 1045
01a44a77 1046 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
8ee352ee 1047
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1048- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1049 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 1050
01a44a77 1051- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 1052
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1053- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1054 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 1055
01a44a77 1056- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
7dc4e69c 1057
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1058- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
1059 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1060 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1061 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1062 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1063 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 1064
01a44a77 1065- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
d0a10f6a 1066
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1067- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
1068 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 1069
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1070- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1071 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1072 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1073 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1074
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1075- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
1076 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1077 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1078 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1079 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1080 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1081 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1082 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1083 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
c5bc8b1a 1084
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1085- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1086 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
cc17cbc3 1087
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1088! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1089 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1090 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1091 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1092
01a44a77 1093- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1094
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1095- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1096 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1097 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1098 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1099 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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1101- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1102 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1103 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1104 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1105 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1106
01a44a77 1107- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1108
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1109- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1110 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1111
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1112- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1113 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1114 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1115 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1116 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1117 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
47e8308d 1118
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1119- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1120 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1121
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1122 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1123 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1124
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1125 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1126 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1127
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1128 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1129 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1130
01a44a77 1131- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1132
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1133- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1134 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1135 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1136 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1137 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1138 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1139
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1140- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1141 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1142 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1143 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1144 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1145 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1146
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1147- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1148 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1149 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1150
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1151- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1152 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1153 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1154 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1155
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1156- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1157 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1158
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1159- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1160 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1161 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1162
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1163- Minor code fixes
1164 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1165 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1166 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1167 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1168 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1169 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1170 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1171 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1172 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1173 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1174 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1175 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1176
01a44a77 1177- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1178
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1179- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1180 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1181
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1182- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1183 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1184
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1185- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1186 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1187
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1188- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1189 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1190 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1191
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1192- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1193 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1194
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1195- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1196 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1197 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1198
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1199- Fixes to lease input and output.
1200 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1201 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1202 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1203 characters.
1204 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1205 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1206
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1207- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1208 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1209 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1210 at Red Hat.
1211 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1212 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1213 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1214 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1215
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1216- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1217 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1218 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1219 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1220
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1221! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1222 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
e675b663 1223 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbins. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
01a44a77 1224 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 1225
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1226- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1227 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1228 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1229
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1230- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1231 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1232 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1233 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1234 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1235
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1236- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1237 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1238 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1239 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1240 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1241
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1242! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1243 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1244 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1245 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1246 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1247 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
bc7f8b8e 1248
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1249- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1250 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1251 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1252
adb95d23 1253- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1254 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1255 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1256
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1257- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1258 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1259 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1260
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1261- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1262 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1263 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1264 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1265 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1266
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1267- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1268 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1269 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1270 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1271
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1272! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1273 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1274 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1275 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1276 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1277 and reset its timeout value.
1278 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1280- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1281 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1282 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1283 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
d208bb04 1284
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1285 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
1286 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1287 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
25f664a6 1288
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1289- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1290 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1291 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1292 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
d424157d 1293
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1294- Some fixes for LDAP
1295 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1296 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1297 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 1298
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1299- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1300 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1302! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1303 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1304 interfaces with the OS.
1305 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1306 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1308- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1309 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1311- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1312 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1313 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1314 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1315 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1316 in v6 mode at configure time.
1317 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1319- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1320 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1321 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1322 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1324- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1325 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1326 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1327 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1328 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1330- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1331 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1332 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1333 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1334 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1336- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1337 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1338 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1339 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1340 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1342- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1343 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1344 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1346- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1347 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1348 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1349 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1350 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1352- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1353 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1354 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1355
1356- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1357 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1358 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1360- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1361 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1362 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1363 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1364 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1365 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1366
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1367- Documentation fixes
1368 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1369 responses to the all-ones address.
1370 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1371 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1372
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1373- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1374 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1375 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1376 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1377
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1378- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1379 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1380
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1381- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1382 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1383 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1384
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1385- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1386 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1387 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1388 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1389 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1390 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1391 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1392 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1393 enable this except for testing purposes.
1394 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1395 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1396
c616de4f 1397- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1398 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1400- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1401
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1402- Client Script fixes
1403 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1404 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1405 the domain search address is link local.
1406 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1407 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1408 being changed.
1409
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1410- Documentation cleanup
1411 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1412
9a111ee8 1413- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1414 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1415
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1416- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1417 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1418 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1419 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1420
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1421- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1422 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1423 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1424
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1425- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1426 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1427
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1429 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1430 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1431 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1432 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1433 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1434
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1435- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1436 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1437 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1438 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1439 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1440 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1441 in site.h then server will be terminated
1442 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1443
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1444! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1445 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1446 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1447 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1448 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1449 CVE-2011-2748
1450 CVE-2011-2749
1451
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1452- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1453 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1454 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1455 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1456
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1457- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1458 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1459
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1460- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1461 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1462
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1463- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1464 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1465
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1466! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1467 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1468 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1469 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1470 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1471 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1472
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1473! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1474 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1475 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1476 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1477 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1478 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1479 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1480 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1481 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1482 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1483 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1484 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1485
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1486- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1487 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1488 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1489 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1490
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1491- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1492 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1493 from the DNS client code.
1494 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1495
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1496- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1497 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1498
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1499- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1500 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1501 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1502 some issues we found in the socket code.
1503 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1504
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1505- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1506 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1507 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1508 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1509
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1510- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1511 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1512
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1513- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1514 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1515 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1516 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1517 weren't removed from the DNS.
1518 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1519
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1520- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1521 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1522 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1523 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1524
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1525- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1526 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1527 dynamic bootp clients.
1528 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1529
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1530- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1531 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1532 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1533 handing it out.
1534 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1535 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1536 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1537 for different IAs.
1538 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1539 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1540
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1541- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1542 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1543 an int as a boolean).
1544 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1545
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1546- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1547 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1548 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1549 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1550 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1551 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1552 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1553 may be removed in the future.
1554 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1555 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1556
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1557- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1558 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1559 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1560 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1561
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1562- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1563 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1564 report and the first version of the patch.
1565 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1566
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1567- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1568 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1569 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1570 for reporting this issue.
1571 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1572
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1573- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1574 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1575 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1576 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1577 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1578 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1579 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1580 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1581 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1582 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1583
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1584! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1585 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1586 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1587 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1588 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1589 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1590 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1591 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1592 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1593 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1594 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1595 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1596
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1597! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1598 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1599 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1600 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1601 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1602 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1603
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1604! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1605 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1606 this issue.
1607 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1608 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1609
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1610- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1611 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1612 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1613 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1614 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1615 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1616
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1617! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1618 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1619 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1620 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1621 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1622 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 1623
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1624- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1625 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1626
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1627- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1628 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1629 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1630 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1631 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1632 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1633
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1634- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1635 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1636 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1637 freed in other cases.
1638 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1639
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1640- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1641 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1642 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1643 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1644 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1645 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1646 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1647 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1648
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1649- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1650 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1651 and patches.
1652 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1653
9a111ee8 1654- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1655 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1656
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1657- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1658 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1659 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1660
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1661- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1662 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1663 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1664 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1665 variables.
1666 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1667
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1668- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1669 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1670 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1671 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1672 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1673 enabling it.
1674 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1675
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1676- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1677 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1678
adb95d23 1679- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1680 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1681 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1682 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1683 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1684
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1685- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1686 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1687 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1688 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1689 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1690
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1691- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1692 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1693
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1694- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1695 and comment out a currently unused test.
1696 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1697
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1698- Address static analysis warnings.
1699 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1700
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1701- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1702 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1703
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1704- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1705 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1706
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1707- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1708 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1709
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1710- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1711 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1712 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1713
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1714- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1715 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1716 for the patch.
1717 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1718
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1719- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1720 objects.
1721 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1722
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1723- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1724 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1725 to work more consistently.
1726 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1727
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1728- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1729 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1730 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1731
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1732- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1733 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1734
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1735- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1736 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1737 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1738 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1739 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1740
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1741- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1742 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1743
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1744- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1745 to the clients.
1746 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1747
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1748- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1749 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1750
7aa153b8 1751
adbef119
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1752 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1753
d340bc24
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1754- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1755 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1756 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1757
0829d595
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1758- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1759 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1760 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1761
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1762- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1763 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1764
a41d7a25
PS
1765- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1766
9e3eb22a
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1767- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1768 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1769 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1770 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1771 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1772 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1773
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1774- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1775 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1776 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1777 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1778 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1779 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1780 FQDN options by default).
1781
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1782- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1783 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1784 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1785 determined lease time) are omitted.
1786
adb95d23 1787- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1788 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1789 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1790
1791- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1792 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1793 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1794
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1795 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1796
62f6843d
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1797- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1798
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1799- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1800
47e6eb82
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1801- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1802 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1803 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1804 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1805 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1806
159c89d7
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1807- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1808
1aa0fe5e
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1809- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1810 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1811 had been deleted from configuration.
1812
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1813- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1814 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1815 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1816 were being ignored.
1817
64e1823d
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1818- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1819
26e59ee9
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1820- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1821 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1822 Nordahl.
1823
70ea9345
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1824- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1825 dhcpv6 disabled.
1826
8d7dca58 1827- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1828 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1829
f4534b17
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1830- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1831 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1832
f9453d21
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1833- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1834 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1835 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1836
1837- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1838 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1839 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1840 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1841 fewer system calls.
1842
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1843- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1844 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1845 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1846 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1847 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1848 Christof Chen.
1849
95fd7038
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1850- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1851 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1852 and in normal state.
1853
1854- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1855 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1856
8a3c1e33
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1857- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1858
1859- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1860 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1861 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1862
dedde1ba
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1863- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1864 rather than restarting the listener.
1865
a57df74a
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1866- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1867 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1868
1869- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1870 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1871 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1872
350576c5
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1873- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1874 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1875 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1876 timeouts).
1877
792156a9
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1878- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1879 in failover state records.
1880
8a4e543b
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1881! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1882 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1883 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1884 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1885
a1308b64
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1886- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1887 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1888
1b12d999
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1889- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1890 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1891 last option definition is used.
1892
d453265f
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1893- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1894 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1895 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1896
3e29af1e
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1897- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1898 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1899
b8d45c67
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1900- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1901 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1902 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1903 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1904 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1905 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1906
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1907- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1908 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1909 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1910 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1911
e4e3a2ab
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1912! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1913 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1914
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1915- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1916 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1917
2267da84
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1918- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1919 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1920 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1921 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1922 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1923 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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1924 configuration.
1925
cd3f0b9b
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1926- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1927 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1928
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1929- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1930 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1931 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1932 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1933
95bba8b6
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1934- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1935 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1936 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 1937 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 1938
adbef119 1939 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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1940
1941- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1942 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1943
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1944 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1945
1946- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1947 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1948 "abandoned".
1949
6ff3b26d
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1950- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1951
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1952- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1953 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1954
1955- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1956 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1957
1958- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1959 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1960
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1961- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1962
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1963- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1964 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1965 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1966 in future releases.
1967
f1672d89
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1968- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1969 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1970
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DH
1971- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1972 'dhclient -6' support.
1973
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1974- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1975 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1976 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1977 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1978
7d6180be 1979 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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1980
1981- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1982
51e7687f
EH
1983- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1984
20210a7b
EH
1985- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1986 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1987 only the latter. Fixed.
1988
535485df
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1989- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1990
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DH
1991- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1992 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1993
61220a00
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1994- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1995
c40e954c
EH
1996- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1997
63971a83
DH
1998- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1999 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
2000 --enable-early-chroot.
2001
66cebfcb
DH
2002- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
2003 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
2004
f8cbf390
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2005- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
2006 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
2007 parameter.
2008
8269561d
DH
2009- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
2010 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
2011
b445a411
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2012- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
2013 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
2014
bd72740e
FD
2015- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
2016
9322442f
FD
2017- Merged IA_XX related structures.
2018
8dea7ba7
FD
2019- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
2020
4619c0a2
DH
2021- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
2022
9ac4206a
DH
2023- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
2024 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
2025 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
2026
420d8b3f
FD
2027- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
2028 support.
2029
40ec5f38
DH
2030- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
2031 repaired.
2032
80097764
FD
2033- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
2034
ffbaa880
FD
2035- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
2036
7de20a95
EH
2037- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
2038 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
2039
d352732e
EH
2040- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
2041 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
2042
7d6180be
DH
2043- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
2044 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
2045
2046- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
2047 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2048 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2049 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2050 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2051 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2052 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2053 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2054 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2055 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2056 shared-network.
2057
2058- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2059 configured option values.
2060
2061- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2062 support class statements.
2063
adb95d23 2064- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
2065 selection were repaired.
2066
ecddae64
DH
2067- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2068 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2069 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2070 by the OS.
2071
2072- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2073 address.
2074
2075- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2076 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2077
d104d45b
DH
2078- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2079
2080- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2081
2082- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2083 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2084
01a54c17 2085 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2086
6d7f9584
FD
2087- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2088
4cafb815 2089- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2090 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2091
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2092- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2093 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2094 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2095
9a111ee8 2096- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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2097 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2098
aabfa4de
FD
2099- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2100
0674055a
FD
2101- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2102 reserved IDs avoided).
2103
b51c785f
FD
2104- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2105
900405e9
FD
2106- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2107 carries a rapid-commit option.
2108
96b620e5
FD
2109- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2110 an empty active lease.
2111
be62cf06
FD
2112- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2113
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EH
2114- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2115 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2116 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2117 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2118
adb95d23 2119- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2120
2121- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2122 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2123 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2124 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2125 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2126 Christof Chen.
2127
2128 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2129
2130- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2131
2132- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2133 config file but -6 is not specified.
2134
2135- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2136
2137- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2138 be more helpful.
2139
2140- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2141 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2142 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2143
2144- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2145 was repaired.
2146
2147- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2148 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2149 been repaired.
2150
2151- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2152 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2153 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2154
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DH
2155- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2156 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2157
41d4652f
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2158- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2159 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2160 IPv4 address.
2161
2c9bf1f4
DH
2162- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2163 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2164 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2165 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2166 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2167
2168- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2169 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2170 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2171
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2172- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2173
c4d29896
SK
2174- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2175
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2176- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2177 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2178 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2179 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
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2180 unnecessary logging.
2181
219a65eb
DH
2182- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2183 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2184
ffdf3c8c
DH
2185- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2186 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2187 is incompatible is printed.
2188
2189- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2190 a previously undefined option code.
2191
00a002fc
MA
2192- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2193 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2194
9a111ee8 2195- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
2196 than the year 2000.
2197
e2cfde76
FD
2198- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2199
cabdb9b1
FD
2200- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2201
5d89d60f
FD
2202- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2203
61d75ea2
DH
2204 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2205
2206- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2207 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2208 configuration.
76db44f9 2209
e32529a5
EH
2210- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2211 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2212
9a111ee8 2213- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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2214 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2215 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2216
9a111ee8
TM
2217- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2218 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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2219 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2220 a requested address.
2221
703873ab
DH
2222- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2223 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2224 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2225 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2226
2227- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2228 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2229 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2230 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2231
b024480e
DH
2232- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2233 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2234 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2235
c0216cb7
DH
2236- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2237 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2238
1ac57173
FD
2239- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2240
83835822
DH
2241- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2242 codes through some conditions.
2243
c54db708
FD
2244- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2245 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2246
e5d83524
DH
2247- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2248 seemingly random values.
2249
821f2dda
DH
2250- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2251
f8b3c6f4
DH
2252- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2253 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2254 one ever has.
2255
9a111ee8
TM
2256- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2257 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
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2258 to a REQUEST.
2259
9f1d5a2f
DH
2260- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2261 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2262 level.
2263
e4a6be15
DH
2264 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2265
65cf86d7
EH
2266- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2267
b1d3778c
DH
2268- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2269 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2270 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2271 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2272 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2273
bead14ea
DH
2274- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2275 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2276 new address.
2277
f765ec36
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2278 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2279
75135a3f 2280- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2281 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
75135a3f
EH
2282 simultaneously on a single interface.
2283
5c2d55c7
EH
2284- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2285 of service under unusual server configurations
2286
2287- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2288
9a111ee8 2289- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2290 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2291
edb1283e
DH
2292- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2293 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2294 on every pool rebalance run.
2295
c71c6399
DH
2296- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2297 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2298
5279b8f3
DH
2299- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2300 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2301
ab3a540f 2302 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2303
9a111ee8 2304- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2305 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2306
fa9b593d
DH
2307- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2308 point out the problem.
2309
9a111ee8 2310- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1b5053b5
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2311 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2312 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2313
c886c298
SK
2314- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2315 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2316
eaf7eb17
DH
2317- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2318 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2319 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2320
109e00db
DH
2321- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2322
9a111ee8 2323- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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2324 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2325
8eab95f2
DH
2326- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2327 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2328 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2329 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2330
07b9a351
DH
2331- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2332
7285af30
DH
2333- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2334 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2335 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2336 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2337 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2338
2394b26b
DH
2339- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2340
ab3a540f
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2341 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2342
97050349
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2343- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2344 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2345
763cba6b 2346- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2347
237f8d3a 2348- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2349 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
237f8d3a
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2350 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2351
28868515
SK
2352- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2353
d00d373a
SK
2354- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2355 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2356
8dfd5744
DH
2357- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2358 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2359 loaded from persistent storage.
2360
45d545f0 2361- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2362 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2363 necessary.
2364
9a111ee8
TM
2365- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2366 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2367 rapid-commit option.
2368
845e9677
DH
2369- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2370 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2371
76c944da
SK
2372 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2373
71765b58
SK
2374- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2375 and fix.
2376
847e7000
SK
2377- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2378
bda33169
SK
2379- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2380
9b21e73e
SK
2381- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2382 for when loading configuration.
2383
8da06bb1
DH
2384- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2385 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2386 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2387
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DH
2388- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2389 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2390 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2391 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2392
76c944da
SK
2393- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2394
f796f70a
DH
2395- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2396 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2397
c11f349d
EH
2398- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2399
af5fa176
EH
2400- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2401
2402- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2403 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2404
a546f2a7
EH
2405- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2406 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2407
b55d0d5f
EH
2408- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2409
26be82af
DH
2410- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2411 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2412
98bd7ca0
DH
2413 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2414
d9b43370
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2415- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2416
8c1752d2
DH
2417- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2418 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2419
98bd7ca0
DH
2420- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2421
a512d11b
DH
2422- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2423 initialized.
2424
2425- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2426
2427- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
DH
2428 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2429
2430- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2431
4ba58919
DH
2432- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2433
2434- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2435 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2436
2437- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2438
8ea19a71 2439- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2440 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
2441
2442- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2443 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2444
2cf8d0bd
DH
2445- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2446
2447- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2448
fe5b0fdd
DH
2449- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2450
98bd7ca0
DH
2451 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2452
2453- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2454 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2455 no support currently for both.
2456
2457- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2458 IAADDR option.
2459
2460- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2461 options.
2462
2463- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2464
2465- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2466 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2467
2468- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2469 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2470 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2471
2472- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2473 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2474
2475- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2476 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2477 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2478 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2479 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2480 differently, they both use the same code here).
2481
2482- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2483 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2484 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2485
2486- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2487
2488- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2489 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2490 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2491 it should not intercept.
2492
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2493 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2494
2495- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2496 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2497 between primary and secondary.
2498
2499- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2500 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2501 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2502
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2503- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2504
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2505- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2506 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2507 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2508 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2509 or REQUEST messages.
2510
2511- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2512 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2513
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2514- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2515
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2516 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2517
adb95d23 2518- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
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2519 failover protected subnets was removed.
2520
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2521 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2522
2523- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2524 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2525 odd number of leases).
2526
2527- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2528 rebalance run, and one after.
2529
2530- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2531 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2532 processing these messages.
2533
fe5b0fdd 2534 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2535
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2536- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2537 objects.
2538
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2539- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2540 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2541 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2542 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2543 at Allianz.
2544
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2545- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2546 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2547
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2548- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2549 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2550
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2551- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2552 caused the server to abort.
2553
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2554- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2555 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2556 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2557
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2558- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2559 by empty spaces would not get included.
2560
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2561- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2562 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2563
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2564- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2565 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2566
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2567- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2568 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2569
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2570- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2571 on the parameter request list.
2572
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2573 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2574
2575- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2576
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2577 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2578
2579- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2580 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2581
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2582- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2583 domain-search option syntax.
2584
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2585 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2586
2587- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2588 hash table was repaired.
2589
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2590- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2591 entering normal state.
2592
2593- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2594 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
66c8f734
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2595 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2596
2597- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2598 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2599
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2600- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2601 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2602 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2603 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2604
45d545f0 2605- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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2606 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2607 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2608 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2609 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2610 to their needs.
2611
2612- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2613 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2614 run will attempt balance.
2615
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2616- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2617
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2618 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2619
2620- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2621 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2622 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2623 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2624
98bd7ca0 2625- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2626 was introduced.
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2627
2628- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2629 via OMAPI.
2630
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2631- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2632 the protocol draft.
2633
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2634- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2635 one does not already exist on the system.
2636
b43c87ad 2637- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2638
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2639- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2640 matches RFC 3074.
2641
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2642- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2643 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2644 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2645
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2646- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2647 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2648 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2649
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2650- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2651 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2652 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2653 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2654
2655- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2656 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2657 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2658 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2659
f7fdb216 2660- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2661 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2662 DHCPv6 support.
2663
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2664- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2665 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2666 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2667
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2668- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2669 have been incorporated.
2670
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2671- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2672 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2673 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2674 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2675 that belong to the peer in need.
2676
2677- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2678 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2679
2680- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2681 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2682 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2683
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2684- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2685 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2686
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2687- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2688 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2689 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2690 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2691 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2692
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2693- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2694 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2695 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2696 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2697
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2698- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2699 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2700 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2701 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2702 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2703 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2704 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2705 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2706 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2707
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2708- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2709 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2710
41e45067 2711- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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2712 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2713 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2714 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2715
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2716- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2717 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2718 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2719 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2720
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2721- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2722 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2723 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2724 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2725 via Robin Breathe.
2726
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2727- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2728 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2729 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2730 from Christof Chen.
2731
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2732- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2733 formally supported.
2734
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2735 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2736
2737- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2738 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2739
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2740 Changes since 3.0.5
2741
f546c28b
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2742- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2743 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2744 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2745 they actually received.
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2746
2747- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2748
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2749- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2750 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
23e10d37
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2751 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2752 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2753
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2754- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2755
d69fb6a8 2756- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2757 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2758
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2759- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2760 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2761 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2762 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2763 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2764 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2765 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
23e10d37
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2766 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2767
2768- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2769 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2770 'file' field.
02428754 2771
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2772- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2773 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2774
67674ffb
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2775- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2776 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2777 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2778
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2779- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2780 from Chris Wagner.
2781
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2782- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2783 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2784 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2785
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2786- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2787 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2788 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2789 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2790 was set.
2791
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2792- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2793 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2794
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2795- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2796 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2797 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2798 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2799 active ones.
2800
02428754 2801 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2802
901306d5 2803- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2804 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2805 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2806 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2807 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2808
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2809- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2810 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2811
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2812 Changes since 3.0.4
2813
2814- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2815 scopes are actually global has been added.
2816
2817- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2818 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2819 known to be damaging.
2820
2821- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2822 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2823 balancing).
2824
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2825- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2826 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2827 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2828
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2829- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2830 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2831 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2832
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2833- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2834 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2835 more clear now.
2836
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2837- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2838 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2839 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2840 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2841 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2842 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2843
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2844- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2845 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2846
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2847- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2848 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2849 made possible.
2850
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2851- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2852 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2853 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2854
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2855- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2856 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2857
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2858- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2859 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2860 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2861
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2862- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2863 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2864 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2865 value with the later configured value).
2866
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2867- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2868 have been named and documented.
2869
2870- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2871 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2872 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2873 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2874 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2875 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2876 write new output.
2877
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2878 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2879
2880- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2881 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2882
2883 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2884
2885- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2886 mailing list.
2887
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2888 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2889
45d545f0 2890- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2891 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2892
2893- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2894 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2895
2896- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2897 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2898 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2899 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2900
2901- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2902 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2903 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2904 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2905 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2906 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2907 transition (properly).
2908
2909- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2910
2911 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2912
2913- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2914 STDIN after reading one line.
2915
2916- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2917 descriptor it opened twice.
2918
2919- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2920 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2921 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2922
2923 Changes since 3.0.3
2924
2925- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2926 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2927 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2928
2929- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2930 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2931 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2932
2933- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2934 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2935 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2936 leases to allocate.
2937
2938- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2939 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2940 than the entire block of them.
2941
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2942! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2943 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2944 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2945 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2946 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2947 to a patch from infamous42md.
2948
2949! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2950 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2951 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2952 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2953 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2954 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2955
2956- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2957 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2958 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2959
2960- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2961 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2962
2963- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2964 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2965 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2966 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2967 transitional states.
2968
2969- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2970 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2971 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2972
2973- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2974 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2975 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2976
2977- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2978 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2979
2980- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2981 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2982
2983- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2984 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2985 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2986
2987- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2988 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2989
2990- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2991 repaired.
2992
2993- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2994 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2995 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2996 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2997
2998- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2999 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
3000 data.
3001
3002- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
3003 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
3004 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
3005 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
3006 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
3007
3008- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
3009 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
3010 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
3011 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
3012 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
3013
3014- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
3015 has been repaired.
3016
3017- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
3018 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
3019 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
3020 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 3021 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3022
3023- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 3024 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 3025
45d545f0 3026- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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3027 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
3028 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
3029 move to 3.[01].x.
3030
3031- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
3032 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
3033
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3034 Changes since 3.0.3b3
3035
3036- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
3037 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
3038
3039- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
3040 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
3041 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
3042 workaround.
3043
3044 Changes since 3.0.3b2
3045
3046- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
3047 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3048
3049 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3050
3051- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3052 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3053 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3054
3055- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3056 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3057 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3058
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3059 Changes since 3.0.2
3060
3061- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3062 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3063 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3064
3065- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3066 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3067 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3068 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3069 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3070
3071- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3072 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3073 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3074
3075- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3076 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3077 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3078
3079- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3080 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3081 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3082 Peter Poeml.
3083
3084- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3085 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3086
3087- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3088 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3089 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3090 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3091 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3092 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3093
3094- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3095 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3096 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3097 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3098
3099- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3100 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3101 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3102 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3103
3104- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3105 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3106
3107- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3108 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3109 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3110
3111- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3112 7 bytes, and failover.
3113
3114- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3115 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3116 at Red Hat.
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3117
3118- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3119 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3120 should work better.
3121
3122- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3123 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3124 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3125
3126- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3127 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3128 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3129
3130 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3131
3132- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3133 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3134
3135 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3136
45d545f0 3137- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3138 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3139 overloading. This was repaired.
3140
3141- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3142 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3143 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3144 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3145 three chunks to fit.
3146
3147- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3148 were repaired.
3149
3150- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3151 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3152 leak).
3153
3154 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3155
3156- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3157 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3158
3159 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3160
3161- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3162
3163 Changes since 3.0.1
3164
3165- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3166 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3167 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3168
3169- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3170 name was not provided by the server.
3171
3172- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3173 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3174
3175- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3176 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3177
3178- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3179 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3180
3181- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3182
3183- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3184
3185- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3186 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3187 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3188 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3189 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3190
3191- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3192 the configuration be globally scoped.
3193
3194- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3195 Farkas.
3196
3197- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3198 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3199
3200- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3201 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3202
3203- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3204 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3205
3206- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3207 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3208 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3209 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3210
3211- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3212 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3213 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3214 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3215
3216- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3217 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3218 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3219
3220- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3221
3222- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3223 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3224 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3225
3226- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3227 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3228 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3229 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3230 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3231
3232- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3233 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3234
3235- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3236 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3237
3238- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3239 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3240 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3241 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3242
3243- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3244 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3245
3246- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3247 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3248 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3249
3250- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3251 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3252 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3253 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3254 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3255 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3256
3257- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3258 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3259 Infoblox.
3260
3261- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3262
3263- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3264 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3265 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3266 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3267 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3268 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3269 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3270
3271- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3272 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3273 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3274
3275- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3276 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3277 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3278
3279- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3280
3281 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3282
3283- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3284 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3285 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3286 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3287 systems either.
3288
3289- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3290
3291- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3292 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3293 is false.
3294
3295- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3296 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3297
3298- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3299
3300 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3301
3302! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3303 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3304 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3305 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3306 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3307 both finding and solving the problem.
3308
3309! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3310 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3311 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3312 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3313 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3314 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3315 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3316 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3317 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3318 published version of ISC DHCP.
3319
3320- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3321
3322- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3323
3324 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3325
3326- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3327 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3328 Richard Hirst.
3329
3330- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3331 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3332 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3333
3334- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3335
3336- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3337 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3338 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3339 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3340
3341- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3342 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3343
3344- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3345 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3346
3347- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3348
3349 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3350
3351- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3352 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3353
3354- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3355 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3356 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3357
3358- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3359 by name was fixed.
3360
45d545f0 3361- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3362 longer result in error.
3363
3364- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3365
3366- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3367 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3368 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3369
3370- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3371 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3372
3373- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3374 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3375 Blapp.
3376
3377- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3378 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3379 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3380 Martin Blapp.
3381
3382- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3383 expiry times in failover configurations.
3384
3385- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3386 Steve G.
3387
3388- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3389 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3390
3391- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3392 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3393 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3394 now "unknown-144".
3395
3396- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3397 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3398
3399 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3400
3401- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3402
3403- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3404 not be bash.
3405
3406- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3407
3408- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3409 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3410 that errored before will now work properly.
3411
3412- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3413 names was repaired.
3414
3415- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3416 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3417 configuration file.
3418
3419- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3420 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3421
3422- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3423 error rather than a null dereference.
3424
3425 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3426
3427- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3428
3429- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3430
3431- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3432 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3433
3434- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3435
3436- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3437
3438- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3439 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3440 self-corrupting lease databases.
3441
3442- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3443
3444- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3445 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3446
3447- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3448
3449- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3450
3451- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3452 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3453 Ling Gou.
3454
3455- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3456 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3457
3458- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3459 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3460 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3461
3462- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3463 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3464
3465 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3466
3467- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3468 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3469
3470- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3471
3472- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3473 a memory leak.
3474
3475- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3476 script.
3477
3478- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3479
3480- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3481
3482- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3483
3484- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3485
3486- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3487
3488- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3489
3490- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3491
3492- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3493
3494- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3495
3496- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3497
3498- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3499
3500- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3501
3502 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3503
3504- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3505 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3506 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3507
3508 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3509
3510- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3511 to be renewed.
3512
3513- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3514 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3515
3516- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3517 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3518
3519- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3520 that two permit lists matched.
3521
3522- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3523 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3524
3525- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3526
3527- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3528 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3529
3530- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3531
3532- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3533
3534- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3535 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3536 going to update its A record.
3537
3538- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3539 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3540 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3541 DNS server.
3542
3543- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3544
3545- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3546
3547- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3548 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3549 NetBSD project).
3550
3551- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3552 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3553
3554- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3555 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3556
3557- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3558
3559- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3560
3561- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3562 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3563 failover protocol standard.
3564
3565- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3566 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3567 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3568
3569- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3570 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3571 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3572 do so.
3573
3574- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3575
3576 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3577
3578- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3579
3580- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3581 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3582
3583- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3584 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3585
3586- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3587 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3588 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3589
3590- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3591 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3592 network, merge the two pools.
3593
3594- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3595 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3596 fix this bug.
3597
3598 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3599
3600- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3601 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3602
3603- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3604 the same case.
3605
3606- Additional documentation.
3607
3608- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3609 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3610
3611 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3612
3613- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3614- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3615
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3617
3618- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3619 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3620 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3621 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3622 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3623
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3625
3626- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3627 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3628 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3629 wasn't the one that removed it.
3630
3631- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3632 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3633 were not configured.
3634
3635- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3636
3637- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3638 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3639 routing information.
3640
3641- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3642 request being sent.
3643
3644- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3645 done.
3646
3647- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3648 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3649 were pending.
3650
3651- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3652 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3653 problems with failover.
3654
3655- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3656 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3657 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3658
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3660
3661- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3662 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3663
3664- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3665 no object is open, it dumps core.
3666
3667- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3668
3669- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3670
3671- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3672
3673- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3674 a host object attribute with a null value.
3675
3676 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3677
3678- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3679
3680- Fix an obscure core dump.
3681
3682- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3683 when crucial information is left out.
3684
3685- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3686
3687- Documentation updates.
3688
3689 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3690
3691- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3692
3693- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3694 structure wasn't zeroed.
3695
3696- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3697 incorrectly.
3698
3699- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3700 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3701 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3702 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3703 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3704 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3705 restarted.
3706
3707 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3708
3709- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3710 in failover-enabled pools.
3711
3712- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3713 declarations).
3714
3715- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3716 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3717
3718- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3719 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3720
3721- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3722
3723- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3724 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3725
3726- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3727
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3728 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
3729
3730- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3731
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3732 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3733
3734- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3735
3736- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3737
3738- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3739
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3740 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3741
3742- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3743 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3744 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3745
3746- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3747 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3748 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3749 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3750 string.
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3751
3752- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3753
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3754 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3755
3756- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3757 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3758
3759- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3760 malformed packets.
3761
3762- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3763
3764- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3765 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3766 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3767
3768- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3769
3770- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3771
3772- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3773
3774- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3775 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3776
3777- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3778 tcp connections from being played back.
3779
3780- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3781 on exit.
3782
3783- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3784
3785- Add some configurability to the build system.
3786
3787- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3788
3789- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3790 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3791 hadn't been noticed until now.
3792
3793 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3794
3795- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3796 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3797
3798- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3799 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3800 conformant, but also didn't work).
3801
3802- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3803 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3804
3805- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3806 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3807
3808- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3809 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3810
3811- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3812 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3813
3814- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3815 doing failover.
3816
3817- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3818 running on alpha processors.
3819
3820- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3821 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3822
3823- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3824
3825- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3826
3827- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3828 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3829
3830- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3831
3832- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3833 actually named (key names are domain names).
3834
3835- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3836
3837- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3838 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3839
3840- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3841 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3842
3843- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3844 statements.
3845
3846- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3847 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3848
3849- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3850 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3851 operating.
3852
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3853 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3854
3855- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3856 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3857 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3858 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3859
3860- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3861 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3862
3863- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3864
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3865 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3866
3867- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3868 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3869
3870- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3871 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3872 to the chain.
3873
3874- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3875
3876- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3877
3878- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3879
98311e4b 3880- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3881 attribute values in omshell.
3882
98311e4b 3883- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3884
3885- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3886
3887 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3888
3889- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3890 DHCPDECLINE.
3891
3892- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3893
3894- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3895 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3896 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3897
3898- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3899
3900- Documentation fixes.
3901
3902- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3903 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3904
3905- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3906 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3907
3908- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3909
3910- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3911
3912- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3913 case-insensitive.
3914
3915- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3916
98311e4b 3917- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3918 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3919 consistently.
3920
3921- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3922 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3923
3924- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3925
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3926 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3927
3928- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3929 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3930 result of duplicate leases.
3931
3932- Document OMAPI server objects.
3933
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3934 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3935
3936- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3937 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3938
3939- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3940 core dumps.
3941
3942- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3943 Friedrich.
3944
3945- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3946
3947 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3948
3949- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3950 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3951 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3952 billing class code.
3953
3954- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3955 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3956
3957- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3958 trace file.
3959
79ea3de8 3960 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 3961
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3962- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3963 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3964 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3965 e.g., Digital Unix.
3966
3967- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3968 when no error had occurred.
3969
3970- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3971 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3972 non-communicating state.
3973
3974- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3975
3976- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3977 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3978 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3979
3980- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3981 when the client lease expired.
3982
3983- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3984 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3985 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3986 in testing.
3987
3988- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3989 the command line, it would fail.
3990
3991- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3992 user impact).
3993
3994- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3995
3996- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3997 they're executable.
3998
3999 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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4000
4001- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
4002 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
4003 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
4004 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
4005
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4006- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
4007 Transmeta.
4008
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4009- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
4010 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
4011 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
4012 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
4013
4014- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
4015 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
4016
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4017 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
4018
4019- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
4020 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
4021
4022- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
4023
4024- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
4025
4026- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
4027
4028- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
4029
4030- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
4031
4032- Update some parts of the README file.
4033
4034- Support GCC on SCO.
4035
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4037
4038- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
4039 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
4040
4041- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
4042 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
4043 unbill the old class.
4044
4045- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
4046 process the state transition immediately.
4047
4048- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4049 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4050
4051- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4052
4053- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4054
4055- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4056
4057- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4058
4059- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4060 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4061 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4062
4063- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4064 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4065
4066- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4067 lease file.
4068
4069- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4070
4071- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4072
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4074
4075- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4076 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4077
4078- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4079
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4081
4082- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4083
adbef119 4084 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4085
4086- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4087
4088- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4089 pl19.
4090
4091- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4092 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4093 past the regression test.
4094
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4096
4097- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4098 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4099
4100- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4101 DHCPREQUEST.
4102
4103- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4104
4105- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4106
4107- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4108
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4111- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4112 (Damien Neil)
4113
4114- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4115 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4116
4117- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4118 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4119 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4120
4121- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4122 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4123 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4124 message.
4125
4126- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4127 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4128 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4129
98311e4b 4130- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4131 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4132 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4133 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4134 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4135 this way will work.
4136
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4137- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4138
4139- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4140 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4141 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4142 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4143
4144 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4145
4146 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4147
4148- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4149 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4150 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4151
4152- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4153 Hermann Lauer.
4154
4155- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4156 messages.
4157
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4158- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4159 it contained quoted strings.
4160
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4161 ** there was no pl17 **
4162
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4165- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4166 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4167 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4168 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4169 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4170 tracking down memory leaks.
4171
4172- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4173 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4174 Solaris.
4175
4176- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4177 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4178 corruption and core dumps.
4179
4180- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4181 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4182
4183- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4184
4185- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4186 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4187
4188- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4189 name and version to standard output.
4190
4191- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4192
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4193- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4194 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4195
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4196- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4197
4198- Lots of documentation updates.
4199
4200- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4201 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4202
4203- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4204
4205- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4206 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4207
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4209
4210- Some documentation tweaks.
4211
4212- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4213
4214- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4215
4216- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4217 agent options into them.
4218
4219- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4220
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4221- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4222 options.
4223
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4225
4226- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4227 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4228 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4229 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4230 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4231
4232- Fix up documentation.
4233
4234- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4235 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4236
4237- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4238
4239- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4240
4241- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4242 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4243 practical use otherwise.
4244
4245- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4246 for debugging.
4247
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4249
4250- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4251 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4252 dump on some systems.
4253
4254- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4255 option.
4256
4257- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4258 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4259
4260- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4261 that were not printing enough information.
4262
4263- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4264 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4265
4266- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4267 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4268 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4269 were answering.
4270
4271- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4272 the transition.
9a111ee8 4273
2f2e7960 4274
adbef119 4275 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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4276
4277- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4278
a1e2e3d6
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4279 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4280
4281- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4282 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4283 representation from working correctly.
4284
4285- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4286 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4287 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4288 could spin.
4289
4290- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4291 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4292
4293- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4294 interface name on the command line.
4295
4296- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4297 client state.
4298
4299- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4300 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4301 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4302 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4303 added by Ted Lemon.
4304
4305- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4306 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4307
4308- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4309 end option.
4310
4311- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4312 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4313 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4314
4315- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4316 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4317 face of a null hardware address on input.
4318
4319- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4320 specified unqualified.
4321
4322- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4323 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4324
4325- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4326 RFC.
4327
4328- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4329
4330- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4331
4332- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4333 it works.
4334
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4335 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4336
4337- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4338 to CVS.
4339
9fd337e7
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4340 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4341
4342- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4343
4344- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4345 in patchlevel 9.
4346
4347- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4348 options at renewal time.
4349
4350- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4351 configuration language.
4352
4353- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4354
4355- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4356 done when no client hostname was received.
4357
4358- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4359
4360- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4361 the DHCP option space.
4362
4363- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4364
4365- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4366 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4367
4368- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4369 silently dropped.
4370
4371- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4372 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4373
4374- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4375 will be correctly updated.
4376
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4377 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4378
4379- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4380 bounds-checking.
4381
4382 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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4383
4384- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4385
3922772a 4386 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 4387
f8572308
TL
4388- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4389 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4390 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4391
4392- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4393 option.
4394
4395- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4396 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4397 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4398 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4399 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4400 meaningfully.
4401
4402- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4403 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4404 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4405
4406- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4407 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4408 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4409 this one down!
4410
4411- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4412 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4413 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4414 down and fixing this problem.
4415
4416 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4417
0f6045f8
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4418- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4419 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4420
4421- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4422 environment.
4423
4424- Fix suffix operator.
4425
4426- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4427
4428- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4429 connection code.
4430
4431- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4432
4433- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4434
4435- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4436 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4437
4438- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4439
4440- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4441
4442- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4443 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4444
4445- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4446 spawn with.
4447
4448- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4449 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4450
4451- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4452 for OMAPI.
4453
4454- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4455 can install in host declarations.
4456
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4457 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4458
4459- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4460 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4461 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4462 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4463 comments)!
4464
4465- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4466
6ed7a93d
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4467- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4468 request for help on this with patches!
4469
4470- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4471 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4472 lost, they never reconnect.
4473
4474- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4475 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4476
4477- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4478 dump.
4479
4480- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4481 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4482 catching this one.
4483
490eb5e7
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4484 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4485
4486- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4487 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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4488 lease renewal time.
4489
4490- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4491 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4492 declared without a key.
4493
4494- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4495
4496- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4497 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4498
4499- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4500 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4501 determine the maximum size of the response.
4502
592d8153
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4503 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4504
359b023e
TL
4505- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4506 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4507
592d8153
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4508- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4509 RENEWING client.
4510
4511- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4512
4513- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4514 using memcmp().
4515
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4516 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4517
4518- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4519 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4520 pointing this out.
4521
4522- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4523 exit.
4524
4525- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4526
4527- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4528 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.