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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.3.0b1
3 20 January 2014
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
32 be preferrable.
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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
6980ae03 55 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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57- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
58 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
59 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
60 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
61 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
62 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
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63 Update this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
64 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
4809ef5c 65 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 66 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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68- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
69 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
70 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
71
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72- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
73 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
74 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
75 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 76 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 77
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78- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
79 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
80 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
81 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
82 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
83 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
84
a7341359 85- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 86 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
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88- Add support for using classes with v6.
89 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
90
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91- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
92 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
93 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
94 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
95 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
96 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
97 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 98 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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100- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
101 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
102 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
103 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
104 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
105 not recommended.
64fb661c 106 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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108- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
109 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
110 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
111 This is "Server starting service.".
112 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
113 its failover peer are in the normal state.
114 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 115 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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117- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
118 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
119 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
120 for a description. The host-identifer option has also been
121 updated to support the use of relay options see the dhcpd.conf
122 man page for a description.
123 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
124
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125- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
126 to find a reasoanble nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
127 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
128 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
129 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
130 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
131 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
132
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133- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
134 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
135 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
136 one instance of their respective address types.
137 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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139- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
140 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
141 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
142 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
08e6dad9 143 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Ply Pomona for the patch.
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144 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
145 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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147- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
148 and take host declarations into account.
149 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
150 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
151
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152- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
153 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
154 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
155 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
61ef216b 156
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157- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
158 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
159
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160 Changes since 4.3.0a1
161
162- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
163 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
164 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
165 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
166
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167- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
168 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
169
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170 Changes since 4.2.5
171
d0a10f6a 172- Address static analysis warnings.
9626483b 173 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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175- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
176 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
177
c5bc8b1a 178- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
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179 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
180
181- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
182 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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184- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
185 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
186 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
187
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188- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
189 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
190 for the patch.
191 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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193- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
194 objects.
195 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
196
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197- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
198 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
199 to work more consistently.
200 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
201
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202- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
203 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
204 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
205
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206- Update client script for use with openwrt.
207 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
208
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209- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
210 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
211 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
212 for the bug report and a potential patch.
213 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
214
47e8308d 215- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
0895c955 216 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
47e8308d 217
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218- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
219 to the clients.
220 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
221
c5905ed0 222- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
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223 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
224
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225 Changes since 4.2.4
226
227- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
228 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
229 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
230 for reporting this issue.
231 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
232
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233- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
234 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
235 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
236 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
237 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
238 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
239 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
240 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
241 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
242 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
243
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244! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
245 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
246 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
247 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
248 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
249 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
250 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
251 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
252 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
253 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
254 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
255 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
256
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257! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
258 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
259 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
260 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
261 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
262 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
263
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264! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
265 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
266 this issue.
267 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
df2c355e 268 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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270- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
271 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
272 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
273 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
274 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
275 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
276
0b2ec8c9 277! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
03b44855 278 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
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279 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
280 New Zealand for finding this issue.
281 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
282 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
283
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284- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
285 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
286
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287- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
288 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
289 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
290 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
291 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
292 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
293
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294- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
295 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
296 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
297 freed in other cases.
298 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
299
d5d868e7 300- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
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301 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
302 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
303 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
304 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
305 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
306 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
307 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
308
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309- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
310 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
311 and patches.
312 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
313
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314- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
315 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
316
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317- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
318 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
319 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
320
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321- The client now passes information about the options it requested
322 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
323 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
324 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
325 variables.
3aa562f8 326 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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328- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
329 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
330 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
331 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
332 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
333 enabling it.
334 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
335
d5d868e7 336- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
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337 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
338
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339- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
340 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
341 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
342 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
343 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
344
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345- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
346 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
347 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
348 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
349 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
350
d5d868e7 351- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
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352 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
353
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354- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
355 and comment out a currently unused test.
56c0e681 356 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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359
360! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
dc6908b4 361 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
b95f1ee0 362 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
317d1182 363 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
b95f1ee0 364 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
846af1cd 365 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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367! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
368 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
369 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
370 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
371 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
372 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
373 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
374 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
375 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
376 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
377 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
378 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
379
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380- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
381 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
382 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
383 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
384
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385- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
386 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
387 from the DNS client code.
cfc49463 388 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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cfc49463 390- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
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391 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
392
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393- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
394 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
395 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
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396 some issues we found in the socket code.
397 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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399- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
400 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
401 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
d13db163 402 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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404- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
405 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
406
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407- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
408 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
409 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
cfc49463 410 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
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411 weren't removed from the DNS.
412 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
413
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414- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
415 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
416 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
417 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
418
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419- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
420 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
421 dynamic bootp clients.
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422 [ISC-bugs #28574]
423
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424- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
425 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
426 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
427 handing it out.
428 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
429 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
430 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
431 for different IAs.
432 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
433 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
434
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435- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
436 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
437 an int as a boolean).
438 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
439
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440- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
441 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
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442 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
443 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
d19fa5a1 444 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
53394a8d 445 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
cfc49463 446 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
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447 may be removed in the future.
448 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
449 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
450
cfc49463 451- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
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452 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
453 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
454 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
455
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456- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
457 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
458 report and the first version of the patch.
459 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
460
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461 Changes since 4.2.2
462
463- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
464 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
465 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
466 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
467
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468- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
469 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
470
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471- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
472 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
473
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474- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
475 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
476
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477 Changes since 4.2.1
478
479! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
480 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
481 interfaces with the OS.
482 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
483 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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485- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
486 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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488- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
489 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
490 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
491 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
492 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
493 in v6 mode at configure time.
494 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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496- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
497 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
498 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 499 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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501- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
502 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
503 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
504 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 505 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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507- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
508 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
509 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
510 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 511 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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513- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
514 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
515 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
516 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 517 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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519- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
520 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 521 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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523- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
524 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
525 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
526 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 527 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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528
529- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
530 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
531 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
532
533- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
534 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
535 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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536
537- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
538 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
539 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
540 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
541 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
542 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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544- Documentation fixes
545 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
546 responses to the all-ones address.
547 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
548 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
549
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550- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
551 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
552 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
553 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
554
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555- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
556 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
557
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558- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
559 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
560 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
561
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562- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
563 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
564 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
565 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
566 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
567 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
568 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
569 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
570 enable this except for testing purposes.
571 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
572 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
573
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574- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
575 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
576
577- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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579- Client Script fixes
580 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
581 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
582 the domain search address is link local.
583 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
584 case of the default router information being changed without the address
585 being changed.
586
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587- Documentation cleanup
588 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
589
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590- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
591 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
592
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593- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
594 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
595 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
596 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
597
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598- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
599 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
600 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
601
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602- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
603 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
604
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605- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
606 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
607 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
608 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
609 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
610 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
611
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612- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
613 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
614 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
615 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
616 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
617 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
618 in site.h then server will be terminated
619 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
620
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621! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
622 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
623 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
624 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
625 One CVE number for each class of packet.
626 CVE-2011-2748
627 CVE-2011-2749
628
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629 Changes since 4.2.0
630
631- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
632 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
633 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
634 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
635 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
636 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
637
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638- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
639 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
640 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
641 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
642 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
643 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
644
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645- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
646 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
647 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
648
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649- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
650 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
651 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
652 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
653
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654- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
655 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
656
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657- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
658 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
659 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
660
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661- Minor code fixes
662 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
663 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
664 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
665 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
666 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
667 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
668 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
669 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
670 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
671 Thanks to Martin Pala.
672 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
673 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
674
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675- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
676
677- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
678 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
679
680- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
681 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
682
683- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
684 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
685
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686- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
687 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
688 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
689
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690- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
691 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
692
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693- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
694 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
695 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
696
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697- Fixes to lease input and output.
698 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
699 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
700 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
701 characters.
702 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
703 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
704
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705- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
706 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
707 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
708 at Red Hat.
709 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
710 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
711 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
712 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
713
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714- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
715 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
716 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
717 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
718
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719! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
720 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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721 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
722 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
723
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724- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
725 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
726 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
4dc5a6b1 727
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728- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
729 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
730 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
731 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
732 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
733
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734- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
735 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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736 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
737 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
738 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
3004baba 739
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740! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
741 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
742 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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743 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
744 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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745 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
746
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747- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
748 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
749 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
750
751- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
752 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
753 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
754
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755- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
756 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
757 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
758
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759- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
760 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
761 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
762 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
763 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
764
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765- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
766 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
767 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
768 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
769
c8b189f1 770! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 771 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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772 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
773 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 774 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
09afca0d 775 and reset its timeout value.
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776 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
777
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778- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
779 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
780 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
781 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
782
783 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
784 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
785 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
786
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787- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
788 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
789 when removing the ddns information.
790 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
791
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792- Some fixes for LDAP
793 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
794 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
795 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
796
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797- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
798 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
799
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800 Changes since 4.2.0b2
801
802- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
0d8c3d6e 803
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804 Changes since 4.2.0b1
805
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806- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
807 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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809! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
810 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 811 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 812 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
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814- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
815
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816- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
817 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
818 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
819 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
820 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
821
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822- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
823 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
824 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
825 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
826 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
827
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828- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
829
600ee619 830- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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831 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
832
833- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
834 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
835 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
836 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
837 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
838 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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840- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
841 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
842
843 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
844 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
845
846 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
847 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
848
849 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
850 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
851
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852 Changes since 4.2.0a2
853
854- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
855 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
856
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857- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
858 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
859 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 860 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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862- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
863 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
864 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
865 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
866 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
867 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
868 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
869 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
870 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
871
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873
874- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
875 is no longer truncated to one octet.
876
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877- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
878
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879- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
880 reflect support for prefix delegation.
881
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882- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
883
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884- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
885 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
886 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
887 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
888 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
889 entry for each lease.
890
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891- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
892
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893 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
894
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895- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
896 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 897 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 898
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899- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
900 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
901 Cantrell at Red Hat.
902
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903- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
904 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
905
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906- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
907
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908- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
909 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
910 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
911 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
912 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
913 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
914
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915- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
916 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
917 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
918 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
919 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
920 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
921 FQDN options by default).
922
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923- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
924 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
925 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
926 determined lease time) are omitted.
927
98bf1607 928- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 929 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 930 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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931
932- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
933 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
934 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
935
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936 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
937
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938- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
939
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940- Validate the argument to the -p option.
941
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942- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
943 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
944 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
945 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
946 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
947
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948- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
949
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950- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
951 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
952 had been deleted from configuration.
953
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954- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
955 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 956 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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957 were being ignored.
958
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959- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
960
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961- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
962 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
963 Nordahl.
964
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965- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
966 dhcpv6 disabled.
967
8d7dca58 968- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 969 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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971- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
972 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
973
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974- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
975 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
976 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
977
978- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
979 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
980 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
981 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
982 fewer system calls.
983
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984- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
985 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
986 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
987 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
988 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
989 Christof Chen.
990
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991- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
992 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
993 and in normal state.
994
995- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
996 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
997
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998- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
999
1000- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1001 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1002 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1003
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1004- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1005 rather than restarting the listener.
1006
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1007- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1008 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1009
1010- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1011 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1012 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1013
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1014- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1015 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1016 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1017 timeouts).
1018
792156a9
DH
1019- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1020 in failover state records.
1021
8a4e543b
DH
1022! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1023 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1024 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1025 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1026
a1308b64
DH
1027- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1028 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1029
1b12d999
DH
1030- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1031 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1032 last option definition is used.
1033
d453265f
PS
1034- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1035 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1036 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1037
3e29af1e
PS
1038- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1039 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1040
b8d45c67
DH
1041- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1042 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1043 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1044 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1045 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1046 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1047
583c1c16
DH
1048- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1049 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1050 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1051 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1052
e4e3a2ab
DH
1053! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1054 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1055
875e99dc
SR
1056- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1057 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1058
2267da84
DH
1059- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1060 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1061 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1062 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1063 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1064 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
DH
1065 configuration.
1066
cd3f0b9b
DH
1067- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1068 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1069
0493fdca
SR
1070- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1071 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1072 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1073 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1074
95bba8b6
SR
1075- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1076 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1077 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
1078 was always properly set.
1079
adbef119 1080 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
EH
1081
1082- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1083 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1084
a4ffedd1
DH
1085 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1086
1087- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1088 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1089 "abandoned".
1090
6ff3b26d
FD
1091- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1092
1387545f
DH
1093- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1094 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1095
1096- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1097 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1098
1099- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1100 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1101
399d3dbe
DH
1102- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1103
fbcee149
DH
1104- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1105 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1106 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1107 in future releases.
1108
f1672d89
DH
1109- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1110 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1111
236d3a99
DH
1112- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1113 'dhclient -6' support.
1114
efa5e6b9
DH
1115- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1116 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1117 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1118 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1119
7d6180be 1120 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
EH
1121
1122- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1123
51e7687f
EH
1124- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1125
20210a7b
EH
1126- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1127 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1128 only the latter. Fixed.
1129
535485df
EH
1130- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1131
8fbb55ff
DH
1132- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1133 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1134
61220a00
EH
1135- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1136
c40e954c
EH
1137- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1138
63971a83
DH
1139- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1140 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1141 --enable-early-chroot.
1142
66cebfcb
DH
1143- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1144 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1145
f8cbf390
DH
1146- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1147 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1148 parameter.
1149
8269561d
DH
1150- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1151 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1152
b445a411
DH
1153- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1154 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1155
bd72740e
FD
1156- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1157
9322442f
FD
1158- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1159
8dea7ba7
FD
1160- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1161
4619c0a2
DH
1162- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1163
9ac4206a
DH
1164- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1165 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1166 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1167
420d8b3f
FD
1168- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1169 support.
1170
40ec5f38
DH
1171- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1172 repaired.
1173
80097764
FD
1174- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1175
ffbaa880
FD
1176- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1177
7de20a95
EH
1178- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1179 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1180
d352732e
EH
1181- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1182 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1183
7d6180be
DH
1184- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1185 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1186
1187- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1188 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1189 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1190 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1191 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1192 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1193 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1194 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1195 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1196 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1197 shared-network.
1198
1199- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1200 configured option values.
1201
1202- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1203 support class statements.
1204
dd484ced
DH
1205- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1206 selection were repaired.
1207
ecddae64
DH
1208- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1209 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1210 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1211 by the OS.
1212
1213- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1214 address.
1215
1216- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1217 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1218
d104d45b
DH
1219- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1220
1221- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1222
1223- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1224 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1225
01a54c17 1226 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1227
6d7f9584
FD
1228- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1229
4cafb815 1230- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1231 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1232
022fe95e
EH
1233- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1234 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1235 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1236
1dcc3612
SK
1237- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1238 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1239
aabfa4de
FD
1240- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1241
0674055a
FD
1242- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1243 reserved IDs avoided).
1244
b51c785f
FD
1245- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1246
900405e9
FD
1247- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1248 carries a rapid-commit option.
1249
96b620e5
FD
1250- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1251 an empty active lease.
1252
be62cf06
FD
1253- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1254
01a54c17
EH
1255- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1256 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1257 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1258 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1259
1260- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1261
1262- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1263 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1264 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1265 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1266 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1267 Christof Chen.
1268
1269 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1270
1271- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1272
1273- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1274 config file but -6 is not specified.
1275
1276- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1277
1278- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1279 be more helpful.
1280
1281- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1282 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1283 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1284
1285- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1286 was repaired.
1287
1288- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1289 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1290 been repaired.
1291
1292- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1293 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1294 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1295
49f61135
DH
1296- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1297 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1298
41d4652f
DH
1299- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1300 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1301 IPv4 address.
1302
2c9bf1f4
DH
1303- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1304 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1305 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1306 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1307 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1308
1309- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1310 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1311 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1312
cff9b78f
SK
1313- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1314
c4d29896
SK
1315- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1316
57fcb8d9
SK
1317- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1318 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1319 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1320 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1321 unnecessary logging.
1322
219a65eb
DH
1323- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1324 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1325
ffdf3c8c
DH
1326- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1327 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1328 is incompatible is printed.
1329
1330- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1331 a previously undefined option code.
1332
00a002fc
MA
1333- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1334 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1335
7e9f7a1b
FD
1336- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1337 than the year 2000.
1338
e2cfde76
FD
1339- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1340
cabdb9b1
FD
1341- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1342
5d89d60f
FD
1343- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1344
61d75ea2
DH
1345 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1346
1347- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1348 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1349 configuration.
76db44f9 1350
e32529a5
EH
1351- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1352 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1353
76db44f9
SK
1354- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1355 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1356 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1357
6f76de58
SK
1358- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1359 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1360 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1361 a requested address.
1362
703873ab
DH
1363- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1364 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1365 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1366 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1367
1368- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1369 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1370 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1371 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1372
b024480e
DH
1373- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1374 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1375 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1376
c0216cb7
DH
1377- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1378 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1379
1ac57173
FD
1380- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1381
83835822
DH
1382- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1383 codes through some conditions.
1384
c54db708
FD
1385- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1386 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1387
e5d83524
DH
1388- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1389 seemingly random values.
1390
821f2dda
DH
1391- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1392
f8b3c6f4
DH
1393- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1394 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1395 one ever has.
1396
b9137d42
SK
1397- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1398 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1399 to a REQUEST.
1400
9f1d5a2f
DH
1401- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1402 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1403 level.
1404
e4a6be15
DH
1405 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1406
65cf86d7
EH
1407- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1408
b1d3778c
DH
1409- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1410 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1411 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1412 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1413 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1414
bead14ea
DH
1415- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1416 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1417 new address.
1418
f765ec36
SK
1419 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1420
75135a3f
EH
1421- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1422 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1423 simultaneously on a single interface.
1424
5c2d55c7
EH
1425- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1426 of service under unusual server configurations
1427
1428- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1429
f765ec36
SK
1430- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1431 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1432
edb1283e
DH
1433- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1434 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1435 on every pool rebalance run.
1436
c71c6399
DH
1437- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1438 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1439
5279b8f3
DH
1440- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1441 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1442
ab3a540f 1443 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1444
884a458f
SK
1445- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1446 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1447
fa9b593d
DH
1448- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1449 point out the problem.
1450
1b5053b5
SK
1451- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1452 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1453 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1454
c886c298
SK
1455- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1456 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1457
eaf7eb17
DH
1458- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1459 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1460 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1461
109e00db
DH
1462- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1463
3ad9d48f
SK
1464- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1465 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1466
8eab95f2
DH
1467- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1468 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1469 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1470 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1471
07b9a351
DH
1472- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1473
7285af30
DH
1474- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1475 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1476 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1477 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1478 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1479
2394b26b
DH
1480- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1481
ab3a540f
SK
1482 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1483
97050349
SK
1484- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1485 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1486
763cba6b 1487- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1488
237f8d3a
SK
1489- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1490 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1491 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1492
28868515
SK
1493- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1494
d00d373a
SK
1495- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1496 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1497
8dfd5744
DH
1498- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1499 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1500 loaded from persistent storage.
1501
45d545f0 1502- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
1503 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1504 necessary.
1505
f800f4f6
SK
1506- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1507 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1508 rapid-commit option.
1509
845e9677
DH
1510- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1511 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1512
76c944da
SK
1513 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1514
71765b58
SK
1515- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1516 and fix.
1517
847e7000
SK
1518- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1519
bda33169
SK
1520- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1521
9b21e73e
SK
1522- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1523 for when loading configuration.
1524
8da06bb1
DH
1525- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1526 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1527 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1528
dd328225
DH
1529- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1530 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1531 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1532 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1533
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1534- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1535
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1536- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1537 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1538
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1539- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1540
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1541- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1542
1543- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1544 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1545
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1546- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1547 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1548
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1549- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1550
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1551- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1552 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1553
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1554 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1555
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1556- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1557
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1558- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1559 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1560
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1561- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1562
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1563- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1564 initialized.
1565
1566- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1567
1568- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1569 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1570
1571- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
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1573- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1574
1575- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1576 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1577
1578- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1579
8ea19a71 1580- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1581 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1582
1583- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1584 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1585
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1586- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1587
1588- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1589
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1590- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1591
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1592 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1593
1594- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1595 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1596 no support currently for both.
1597
1598- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1599 IAADDR option.
1600
1601- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1602 options.
1603
1604- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1605
1606- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1607 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1608
1609- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1610 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1611 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1612
1613- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1614 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1615
1616- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1617 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1618 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1619 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1620 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1621 differently, they both use the same code here).
1622
1623- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1624 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1625 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1626
1627- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1628
1629- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1630 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1631 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1632 it should not intercept.
1633
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1634 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1635
1636- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1637 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1638 between primary and secondary.
1639
1640- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1641 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1642 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1643
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1644- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1645
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1646- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1647 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1648 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1649 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1650 or REQUEST messages.
1651
1652- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1653 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1654
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1655- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1656
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1657 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1658
1659- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1660 failover protected subnets was removed.
1661
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1662 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1663
1664- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1665 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1666 odd number of leases).
1667
1668- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1669 rebalance run, and one after.
1670
1671- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1672 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1673 processing these messages.
1674
fe5b0fdd 1675 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1677- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1678 objects.
1679
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1680- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1681 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1682 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1683 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1684 at Allianz.
1685
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1686- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1687 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1688
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1689- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1690 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1691
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1692- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1693 caused the server to abort.
1694
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1695- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1696 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1697 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1698
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1699- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1700 by empty spaces would not get included.
1701
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1702- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1703 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1704
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1705- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1706 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1707
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1708- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1709 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1710
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1711- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1712 on the parameter request list.
1713
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1714 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1715
1716- Some spelling fixes.
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1718 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1719
1720- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1721 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1722
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1723- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1724 domain-search option syntax.
1725
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1726 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1727
1728- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1729 hash table was repaired.
1730
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1731- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1732 entering normal state.
1733
1734- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1735 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1736 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1737
1738- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1739 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1741- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1742 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1743 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1744 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1745
45d545f0 1746- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1747 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1748 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1749 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1750 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1751 to their needs.
1752
1753- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1754 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1755 run will attempt balance.
1756
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1757- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1758
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1759 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1760
1761- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1762 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1763 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1764 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1765
98bd7ca0 1766- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1767 was introduced.
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1768
1769- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1770 via OMAPI.
1771
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1772- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1773 the protocol draft.
1774
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1775- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1776 one does not already exist on the system.
1777
b43c87ad 1778- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
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1780- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1781 matches RFC 3074.
1782
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1783- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1784 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1785 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1787- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1788 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1789 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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1791- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1792 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1793 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1794 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1795
1796- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1797 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1798 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1799 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1800
f7fdb216 1801- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1802 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1803 DHCPv6 support.
1804
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1805- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1806 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1807 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1808
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1809- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1810 have been incorporated.
1811
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1812- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1813 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1814 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1815 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1816 that belong to the peer in need.
1817
1818- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1819 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1820
1821- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1822 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1823 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1824
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1825- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1826 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1827
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1828- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1829 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1830 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1831 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1832 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1833
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1834- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1835 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1836 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1837 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1838
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1839- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1840 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1841 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1842 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1843 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1844 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1845 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1846 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1847 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1848
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1849- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1850 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1851
41e45067 1852- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1853 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1854 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1855 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1856
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1857- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1858 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1859 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1860 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1861
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1862- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1863 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1864 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1865 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1866 via Robin Breathe.
1867
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1868- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1869 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1870 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1871 from Christof Chen.
1872
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1873- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1874 formally supported.
1875
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1876 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1877
1878- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1879 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1880
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1881 Changes since 3.0.5
1882
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1883- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1884 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1885 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1886 they actually received.
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1887
1888- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1889
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1890- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1891 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1892 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1893 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1894
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1895- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1896
d69fb6a8 1897- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1898 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1899
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1900- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1901 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1902 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1903 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1904 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1905 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1906 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1907 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1908
1909- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1910 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1911 'file' field.
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1913- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1914 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1915
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1916- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1917 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1918 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1919
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1920- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1921 from Chris Wagner.
1922
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1923- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1924 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1925 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1926
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1927- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1928 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1929 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1930 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1931 was set.
1932
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1933- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1934 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1935
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1936- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1937 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1938 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1939 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1940 active ones.
1941
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0a73b7b6 1943
901306d5 1944- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1945 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1946 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1947 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1948 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1949
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1950- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1951 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1952
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1953 Changes since 3.0.4
1954
1955- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1956 scopes are actually global has been added.
1957
1958- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1959 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1960 known to be damaging.
1961
1962- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1963 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1964 balancing).
1965
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1966- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1967 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1968 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1969
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1970- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1971 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1972 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1973
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1974- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1975 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1976 more clear now.
1977
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1978- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1979 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1980 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1981 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1982 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1983 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 1984
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1985- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1986 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1987
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1988- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1989 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1990 made possible.
1991
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1992- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1993 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1994 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1995
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1996- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1997 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1998
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1999- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2000 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2001 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2002
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2003- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2004 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2005 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2006 value with the later configured value).
2007
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2008- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2009 have been named and documented.
2010
2011- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2012 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2013 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2014 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2015 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2016 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2017 write new output.
2018
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2019 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2020
2021- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2022 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2023
2024 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2025
2026- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2027 mailing list.
2028
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2029 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2030
45d545f0 2031- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2032 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2033
2034- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2035 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2036
2037- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2038 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2039 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2040 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2041
2042- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2043 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2044 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2045 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2046 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2047 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2048 transition (properly).
2049
2050- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2051
2052 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2053
2054- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2055 STDIN after reading one line.
2056
2057- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2058 descriptor it opened twice.
2059
2060- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2061 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2062 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2063
2064 Changes since 3.0.3
2065
2066- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2067 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2068 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2069
2070- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2071 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2072 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2073
2074- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2075 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2076 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2077 leases to allocate.
2078
2079- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2080 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2081 than the entire block of them.
2082
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2083! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2084 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2085 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2086 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2087 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2088 to a patch from infamous42md.
2089
2090! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2091 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2092 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2093 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2094 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2095 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2096
2097- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2098 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2099 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2100
2101- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2102 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2103
2104- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2105 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2106 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2107 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2108 transitional states.
2109
2110- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2111 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2112 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2113
2114- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2115 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2116 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2117
2118- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2119 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2120
2121- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2122 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2123
2124- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2125 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2126 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2127
2128- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2129 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2130
2131- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2132 repaired.
2133
2134- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2135 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2136 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2137 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2138
2139- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2140 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2141 data.
2142
2143- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2144 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2145 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2146 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2147 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2148
2149- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2150 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2151 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2152 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2153 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2154
2155- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2156 has been repaired.
2157
2158- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2159 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2160 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2161 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2162 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2163
2164- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2165 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2166
45d545f0 2167- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2168 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2169 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2170 move to 3.[01].x.
2171
2172- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2173 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2174
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2175 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2176
2177- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2178 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2179
2180- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2181 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2182 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2183 workaround.
2184
2185 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2186
2187- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2188 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2189
2190 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2191
2192- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2193 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2194 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2195
2196- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2197 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2198 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2199
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2200 Changes since 3.0.2
2201
2202- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2203 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2204 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2205
2206- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2207 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2208 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2209 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2210 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2211
2212- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2213 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2214 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2215
2216- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2217 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2218 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2219
2220- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2221 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2222 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2223 Peter Poeml.
2224
2225- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2226 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2227
2228- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2229 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2230 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2231 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2232 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2233 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2234
2235- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2236 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2237 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2238 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2239
2240- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2241 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2242 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2243 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2244
2245- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2246 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2247
2248- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2249 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2250 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2251
2252- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2253 7 bytes, and failover.
2254
2255- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2256 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2257 at Red Hat.
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2258
2259- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2260 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2261 should work better.
2262
2263- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2264 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2265 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2266
2267- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2268 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2269 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2270
2271 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2272
2273- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2274 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2275
2276 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2277
45d545f0 2278- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2279 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2280 overloading. This was repaired.
2281
2282- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2283 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2284 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2285 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2286 three chunks to fit.
2287
2288- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2289 were repaired.
2290
2291- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2292 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2293 leak).
2294
2295 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2296
2297- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2298 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2299
2300 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2301
2302- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2303
2304 Changes since 3.0.1
2305
2306- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2307 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2308 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2309
2310- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2311 name was not provided by the server.
2312
2313- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2314 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2315
2316- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2317 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2318
2319- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2320 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2321
2322- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2323
2324- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2325
2326- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2327 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2328 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2329 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2330 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2331
2332- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2333 the configuration be globally scoped.
2334
2335- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2336 Farkas.
2337
2338- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2339 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2340
2341- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2342 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2343
2344- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2345 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2346
2347- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2348 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2349 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2350 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2351
2352- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2353 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2354 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2355 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2356
2357- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2358 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2359 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2360
2361- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2362
2363- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2364 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2365 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2366
2367- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2368 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2369 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2370 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2371 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2372
2373- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2374 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2375
2376- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2377 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2378
2379- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2380 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2381 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2382 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2383
2384- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2385 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2386
2387- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2388 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2389 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2390
2391- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2392 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2393 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2394 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2395 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2396 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2397
2398- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2399 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2400 Infoblox.
2401
2402- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2403
2404- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2405 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2406 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2407 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2408 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2409 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2410 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2411
2412- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2413 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2414 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2415
2416- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2417 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2418 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2419
2420- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2421
2422 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2423
2424- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2425 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2426 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2427 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2428 systems either.
2429
2430- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2431
2432- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2433 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2434 is false.
2435
2436- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2437 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2438
2439- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2440
2441 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2442
2443! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2444 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2445 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2446 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2447 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2448 both finding and solving the problem.
2449
2450! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2451 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2452 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2453 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2454 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2455 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2456 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2457 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2458 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2459 published version of ISC DHCP.
2460
2461- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2462
2463- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2464
2465 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2466
2467- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2468 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2469 Richard Hirst.
2470
2471- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2472 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2473 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2474
2475- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2476
2477- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2478 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2479 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2480 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2481
2482- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2483 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2484
2485- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2486 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2487
2488- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2489
2490 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2491
2492- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2493 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2494
2495- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2496 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2497 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2498
2499- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2500 by name was fixed.
2501
45d545f0 2502- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2503 longer result in error.
2504
2505- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2506
2507- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2508 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2509 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2510
2511- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2512 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2513
2514- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2515 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2516 Blapp.
2517
2518- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2519 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2520 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2521 Martin Blapp.
2522
2523- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2524 expiry times in failover configurations.
2525
2526- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2527 Steve G.
2528
2529- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2530 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2531
2532- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2533 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2534 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2535 now "unknown-144".
2536
2537- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2538 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2539
2540 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2541
2542- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2543
2544- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2545 not be bash.
2546
2547- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2548
2549- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2550 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2551 that errored before will now work properly.
2552
2553- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2554 names was repaired.
2555
2556- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2557 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2558 configuration file.
2559
2560- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2561 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2562
2563- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2564 error rather than a null dereference.
2565
2566 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2567
2568- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2569
2570- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2571
2572- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2573 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2574
2575- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2576
2577- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2578
2579- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2580 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2581 self-corrupting lease databases.
2582
2583- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2584
2585- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2586 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2587
2588- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2589
2590- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2591
2592- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2593 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2594 Ling Gou.
2595
2596- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2597 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2598
2599- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2600 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2601 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2602
2603- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2604 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2605
2606 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2607
2608- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2609 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2610
2611- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2612
2613- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2614 a memory leak.
2615
2616- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2617 script.
2618
2619- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2620
2621- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2622
2623- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2624
2625- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2626
2627- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2628
2629- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2630
2631- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2632
2633- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2634
2635- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2636
2637- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2638
2639- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2640
2641- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2642
2643 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2644
2645- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2646 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2647 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2648
2649 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2650
2651- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2652 to be renewed.
2653
2654- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2655 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2656
2657- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2658 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2659
2660- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2661 that two permit lists matched.
2662
2663- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2664 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2665
2666- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2667
2668- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2669 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2670
2671- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2672
2673- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2674
2675- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2676 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2677 going to update its A record.
2678
2679- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2680 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2681 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2682 DNS server.
2683
2684- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2685
2686- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2687
2688- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2689 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2690 NetBSD project).
2691
2692- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2693 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2694
2695- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2696 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2697
2698- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2699
2700- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2701
2702- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2703 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2704 failover protocol standard.
2705
2706- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2707 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2708 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2709
2710- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2711 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2712 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2713 do so.
2714
2715- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2716
2717 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2718
2719- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2720
2721- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2722 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2723
2724- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2725 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2726
2727- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2728 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2729 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2730
2731- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2732 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2733 network, merge the two pools.
2734
2735- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2736 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2737 fix this bug.
2738
2739 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2740
2741- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2742 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2743
2744- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2745 the same case.
2746
2747- Additional documentation.
2748
2749- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2750 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2751
2752 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2753
2754- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2755- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2756
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2758
2759- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2760 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2761 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2762 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2763 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2764
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2766
2767- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2768 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2769 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2770 wasn't the one that removed it.
2771
2772- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2773 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2774 were not configured.
2775
2776- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2777
2778- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2779 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2780 routing information.
2781
2782- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2783 request being sent.
2784
2785- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2786 done.
2787
2788- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2789 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2790 were pending.
2791
2792- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2793 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2794 problems with failover.
2795
2796- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2797 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2798 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2799
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2801
2802- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2803 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2804
2805- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2806 no object is open, it dumps core.
2807
2808- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2809
2810- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2811
2812- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2813
2814- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2815 a host object attribute with a null value.
2816
2817 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2818
2819- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2820
2821- Fix an obscure core dump.
2822
2823- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2824 when crucial information is left out.
2825
2826- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2827
2828- Documentation updates.
2829
2830 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2831
2832- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2833
2834- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2835 structure wasn't zeroed.
2836
2837- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2838 incorrectly.
2839
2840- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2841 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2842 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2843 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2844 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2845 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2846 restarted.
2847
2848 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2849
2850- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2851 in failover-enabled pools.
2852
2853- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2854 declarations).
2855
2856- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2857 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2858
2859- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2860 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2861
2862- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2863
2864- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2865 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2866
2867- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2868
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2870
2871- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2872
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2873 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2874
2875- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2876
2877- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2878
2879- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2880
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2881 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2882
2883- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2884 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2885 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2886
2887- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2888 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2889 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2890 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2891 string.
2892
2893- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2894
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2895 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2896
2897- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2898 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2899
2900- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2901 malformed packets.
2902
2903- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2904
2905- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2906 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2907 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2908
2909- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2910
2911- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2912
2913- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2914
2915- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2916 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2917
2918- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2919 tcp connections from being played back.
2920
2921- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2922 on exit.
2923
2924- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2925
2926- Add some configurability to the build system.
2927
2928- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2929
2930- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2931 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2932 hadn't been noticed until now.
2933
2934 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2935
2936- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2937 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2938
2939- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2940 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2941 conformant, but also didn't work).
2942
2943- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2944 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2945
2946- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2947 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2948
2949- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2950 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2951
2952- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2953 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2954
2955- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2956 doing failover.
2957
2958- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2959 running on alpha processors.
2960
2961- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2962 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2963
2964- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2965
2966- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2967
2968- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2969 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2970
2971- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2972
2973- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2974 actually named (key names are domain names).
2975
2976- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2977
2978- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2979 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2980
2981- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2982 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2983
2984- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2985 statements.
2986
2987- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2988 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2989
2990- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2991 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2992 operating.
2993
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2994 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2995
2996- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2997 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2998 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2999 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3000
3001- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3002 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3003
3004- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3005
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3006 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3007
3008- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3009 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3010
3011- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3012 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3013 to the chain.
3014
3015- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3016
3017- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3018
3019- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3020
98311e4b 3021- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3022 attribute values in omshell.
3023
98311e4b 3024- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3025
3026- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3027
3028 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3029
3030- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3031 DHCPDECLINE.
3032
3033- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3034
3035- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3036 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3037 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3038
3039- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3040
3041- Documentation fixes.
3042
3043- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3044 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3045
3046- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3047 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3048
3049- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3050
3051- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3052
3053- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3054 case-insensitive.
3055
3056- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3057
98311e4b 3058- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3059 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3060 consistently.
3061
3062- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3063 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3064
3065- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3066
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3067 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3068
3069- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3070 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3071 result of duplicate leases.
3072
3073- Document OMAPI server objects.
3074
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3075 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3076
3077- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3078 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3079
3080- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3081 core dumps.
3082
3083- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3084 Friedrich.
3085
3086- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3087
3088 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3089
3090- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3091 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3092 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3093 billing class code.
3094
3095- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3096 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3097
3098- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3099 trace file.
3100
79ea3de8 3101 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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79ea3de8
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3103- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3104 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3105 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3106 e.g., Digital Unix.
3107
3108- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3109 when no error had occurred.
3110
3111- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3112 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3113 non-communicating state.
3114
3115- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3116
3117- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3118 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3119 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3120
3121- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3122 when the client lease expired.
3123
3124- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3125 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3126 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3127 in testing.
3128
3129- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3130 the command line, it would fail.
3131
3132- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3133 user impact).
3134
3135- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3136
3137- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3138 they're executable.
3139
3140 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3141
3142- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3143 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3144 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3145 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3146
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3147- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3148 Transmeta.
3149
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3150- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3151 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3152 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3153 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3154
3155- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3156 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3157
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3158 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3159
3160- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3161 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3162
3163- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3164
3165- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3166
3167- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3168
3169- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3170
3171- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3172
3173- Update some parts of the README file.
3174
3175- Support GCC on SCO.
3176
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3178
3179- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3180 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3181
3182- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3183 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3184 unbill the old class.
3185
3186- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3187 process the state transition immediately.
3188
3189- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3190 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3191
3192- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3193
3194- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3195
3196- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3197
3198- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3199
3200- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3201 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3202 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3203
3204- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3205 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3206
3207- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3208 lease file.
3209
3210- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3211
3212- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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3215
3216- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3217 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3218
3219- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3220
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3222
3223- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3224
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3226
3227- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3228
3229- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3230 pl19.
3231
3232- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3233 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3234 past the regression test.
3235
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3237
3238- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3239 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3240
3241- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3242 DHCPREQUEST.
3243
3244- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3245
3246- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3247
3248- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3249
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3252- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3253 (Damien Neil)
3254
3255- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3256 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3257
3258- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3259 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3260 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3261
3262- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3263 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3264 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3265 message.
3266
3267- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3268 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3269 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3270
98311e4b 3271- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3272 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3273 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3274 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3275 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3276 this way will work.
3277
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3278- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3279
3280- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3281 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3282 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3283 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3284
3285 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3286
3287 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3288
3289- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3290 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3291 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3292
3293- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3294 Hermann Lauer.
3295
3296- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3297 messages.
3298
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3299- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3300 it contained quoted strings.
3301
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3302 ** there was no pl17 **
3303
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3306- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3307 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3308 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3309 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3310 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3311 tracking down memory leaks.
3312
3313- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3314 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3315 Solaris.
3316
3317- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3318 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3319 corruption and core dumps.
3320
3321- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3322 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3323
3324- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3325
3326- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3327 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3328
3329- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3330 name and version to standard output.
3331
3332- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3333
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3334- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3335 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3336
6da9db9d
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3337- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3338
3339- Lots of documentation updates.
3340
3341- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3342 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3343
3344- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3345
3346- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3347 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3348
adbef119 3349 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 15
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3350
3351- Some documentation tweaks.
3352
3353- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3354
3355- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3356
3357- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3358 agent options into them.
3359
3360- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3361
c5b569f8
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3362- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3363 options.
3364
adbef119 3365 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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3366
3367- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3368 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3369 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3370 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3371 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3372
3373- Fix up documentation.
3374
3375- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3376 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3377
3378- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3379
3380- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3381
3382- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3383 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3384 practical use otherwise.
3385
3386- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3387 for debugging.
3388
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3390
3391- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3392 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3393 dump on some systems.
3394
3395- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3396 option.
3397
3398- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3399 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3400
3401- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3402 that were not printing enough information.
3403
3404- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3405 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3406
3407- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3408 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3409 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3410 were answering.
3411
3412- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3413 the transition.
3414
3415
adbef119 3416 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12
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3417
3418- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3419
a1e2e3d6
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3420 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3421
3422- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3423 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3424 representation from working correctly.
3425
3426- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3427 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3428 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3429 could spin.
3430
3431- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3432 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3433
3434- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3435 interface name on the command line.
3436
3437- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3438 client state.
3439
3440- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3441 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3442 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3443 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3444 added by Ted Lemon.
3445
3446- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3447 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3448
3449- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3450 end option.
3451
3452- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3453 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3454 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3455
3456- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3457 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3458 face of a null hardware address on input.
3459
3460- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3461 specified unqualified.
3462
3463- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3464 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3465
3466- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3467 RFC.
3468
3469- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3470
3471- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3472
3473- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3474 it works.
3475
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3476 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3477
3478- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3479 to CVS.
3480
9fd337e7
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3481 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3482
3483- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3484
3485- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3486 in patchlevel 9.
3487
3488- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3489 options at renewal time.
3490
3491- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3492 configuration language.
3493
3494- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3495
3496- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3497 done when no client hostname was received.
3498
3499- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3500
3501- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3502 the DHCP option space.
3503
3504- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3505
3506- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3507 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3508
3509- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3510 silently dropped.
3511
3512- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3513 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3514
3515- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3516 will be correctly updated.
3517
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3518 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3519
3520- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3521 bounds-checking.
3522
3523 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
848c2547
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3524
3525- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3526
3922772a 3527 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
0f6045f8 3528
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3529- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3530 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3531 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3532
3533- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3534 option.
3535
3536- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3537 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3538 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3539 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3540 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3541 meaningfully.
3542
3543- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3544 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3545 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3546
3547- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3548 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3549 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3550 this one down!
3551
3552- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3553 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3554 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3555 down and fixing this problem.
3556
3557 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3558
0f6045f8
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3559- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3560 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3561
3562- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3563 environment.
3564
3565- Fix suffix operator.
3566
3567- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3568
3569- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3570 connection code.
3571
3572- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3573
3574- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3575
3576- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3577 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3578
3579- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3580
3581- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3582
3583- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3584 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3585
3586- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3587 spawn with.
3588
3589- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3590 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3591
3592- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3593 for OMAPI.
3594
3595- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3596 can install in host declarations.
3597
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3598 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3599
3600- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3601 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3602 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3603 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3604 comments)!
3605
3606- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3607
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3608- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3609 request for help on this with patches!
3610
3611- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3612 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3613 lost, they never reconnect.
3614
3615- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3616 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3617
3618- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3619 dump.
3620
3621- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3622 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3623 catching this one.
3624
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3625 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3626
3627- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3628 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
490eb5e7
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3629 lease renewal time.
3630
3631- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3632 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3633 declared without a key.
3634
3635- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3636
3637- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3638 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3639
3640- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3641 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3642 determine the maximum size of the response.
3643
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3644 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3645
359b023e
TL
3646- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3647 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3648
592d8153
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3649- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3650 RENEWING client.
3651
3652- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3653
3654- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3655 using memcmp().
3656
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3657 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3658
3659- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3660 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3661 pointing this out.
3662
3663- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3664 exit.
3665
3666- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3667
3668- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3669 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.