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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.2.0
3 21 December 2012
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
13The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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42 Changes since 4.2.2
43
44- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
45 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
46 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
47 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
48
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49- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
50 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
51
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52- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
53 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
54
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55 Changes since 4.2.1
56
57! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
58 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
59 interfaces with the OS.
60 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
61 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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62
63- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
64 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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65
66- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
67 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
68 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
69 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
70 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
71 in v6 mode at configure time.
72 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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74- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
75 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
76 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 77 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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79- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
80 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
81 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
82 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 83 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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85- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
86 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
87 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
88 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 89 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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90
91- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
92 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
93 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
94 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 95 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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97- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
98 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 99 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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101- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
102 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
103 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
104 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 105 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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107- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
108 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
109 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
110
111- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
112 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
113 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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114
115- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
116 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
117 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
118 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
119 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
120 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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122- Documentation fixes
123 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
124 responses to the all-ones address.
125 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
126 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
127
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128- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
129 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
130 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
131 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
132
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133- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
134 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
135
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136- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
137 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
138 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
139
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140- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
141 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
142 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
143 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
144 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
145 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
146 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
147 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
148 enable this except for testing purposes.
149 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
150 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
151
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152- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
153 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
154
155- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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157- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
158 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
159 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
160 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
161 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
162 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
163
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164- Client Script fixes
165 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
166 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
167 the domain search address is link local.
168 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
169 case of the default router information being changed without the address
170 being changed.
171
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172- Documentation cleanup
173 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
174
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175- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
176 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
177
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178- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
179 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
180 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
181 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
182
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183- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
184 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
185 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
186
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187- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
188 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
189
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190- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
191 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
192 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
193 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
194 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
195 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
196
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197- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
198 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
199 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
200 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
201 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
202 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
203 in site.h then server will be terminated
204 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
205
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206! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
207 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
208 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
209 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
210 One CVE number for each class of packet.
211 CVE-2011-2748
212 CVE-2011-2749
213
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214 Changes since 4.2.0
215
216- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
217 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
218 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
219 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
220 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
221 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
222
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223- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
224 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
225 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
226 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
227 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
228 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
229
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230- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
231 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
232 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
233
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234- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
235 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
236 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
237 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
238
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239- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
240 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
241
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242- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
243 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
244 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
245
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246- Minor code fixes
247 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
248 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
249 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
250 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
251 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
252 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
253 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
254 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
255 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
256 Thanks to Martin Pala.
257 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
258 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
259
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260- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
261
262- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
263 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
264
265- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
266 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
267
268- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
269 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
270
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271- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
272 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
273 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
274
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275- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
276 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
277
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278- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
279 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
280 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
281
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282- Fixes to lease input and output.
283 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
284 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
285 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
286 characters.
287 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
288 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
289
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290- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
291 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
292 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
293 at Red Hat.
294 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
295 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
296 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
297 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
298
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299- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
300 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
301 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
302 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
303
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304! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
305 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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306 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
307 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
308
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309- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
310 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
311 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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313- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
314 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
315 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
316 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
317 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
318
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319- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
320 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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321 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
322 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
323 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
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325! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
326 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
327 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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328 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
329 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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330 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
331
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332- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
333 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
334 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
335
336- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
337 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
338 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
339
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340- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
341 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
342 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
343
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344- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
345 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
346 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
347 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
348 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
349
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350- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
351 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
352 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
353 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
354
c8b189f1 355! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 356 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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357 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
358 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 359 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
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360 and reset it's timeout value.
361 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
362
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363- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
364 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
365 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
366 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
367
368 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
369 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
370 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
371
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372- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
373 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
374 when removing the ddns information.
375 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
376
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377- Some fixes for LDAP
378 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
379 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
380 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
381
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382- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
383 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
384
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385 Changes since 4.2.0b2
386
387- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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389 Changes since 4.2.0b1
390
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391- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
392 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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394! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
395 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 396 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 397 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
1943bbf8 398
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399- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
400
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401- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
402 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
403 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
404 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
405 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
406
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407- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
408 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
409 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
410 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
411 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
412
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413- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
414
600ee619 415- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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416 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
417
418- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
419 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
420 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
421 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
422 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
423 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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425- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
426 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
427
428 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
429 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
430
431 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
432 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
433
434 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
435 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
436
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437 Changes since 4.2.0a2
438
439- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
440 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
441
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442- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
443 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
444 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 445 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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447- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
448 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
449 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
450 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
451 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
452 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
453 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
454 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
455 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
456
3c941d42 457 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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459- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
460 is no longer truncated to one octet.
461
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462- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
463
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464- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
465 reflect support for prefix delegation.
466
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467- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
468
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469- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
470 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
471 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
472 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
473 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
474 entry for each lease.
475
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476- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
477
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478 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
479
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480- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
481 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 482 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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484- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
485 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
486 Cantrell at Red Hat.
487
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488- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
489 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
490
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491- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
492
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493- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
494 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
495 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
496 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
497 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
498 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
499
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500- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
501 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
502 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
503 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
504 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
505 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
506 FQDN options by default).
507
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508- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
509 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
510 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
511 determined lease time) are omitted.
512
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513- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
514 The DHCP server or client can now continue with it's processing while
515 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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516
517- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
518 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
519 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
520
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521 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
522
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523- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
524
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525- Validate the argument to the -p option.
526
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527- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
528 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
529 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
530 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
531 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
532
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533- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
534
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535- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
536 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
537 had been deleted from configuration.
538
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539- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
540 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 541 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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542 were being ignored.
543
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544- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
545
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546- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
547 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
548 Nordahl.
549
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550- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
551 dhcpv6 disabled.
552
8d7dca58 553- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 554 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 555
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556- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
557 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
558
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559- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
560 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
561 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
562
563- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
564 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
565 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
566 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
567 fewer system calls.
568
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569- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
570 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
571 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
572 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
573 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
574 Christof Chen.
575
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576- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
577 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
578 and in normal state.
579
580- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
581 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
582
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583- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
584
585- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
586 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
587 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
588
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589- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
590 rather than restarting the listener.
591
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592- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
593 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
594
595- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
596 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
597 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
598
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599- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
600 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
601 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
602 timeouts).
603
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604- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
605 in failover state records.
606
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607! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
608 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
609 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 610 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 611
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612- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
613 processing a DHCPINFORM.
614
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615- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
616 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
617 last option definition is used.
618
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619- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
620 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
621 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
622
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623- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
624 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
625
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626- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
627 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
628 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
629 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
630 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
631 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
632
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633- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
634 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
635 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
636 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
637
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638! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
639 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 640
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641- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
642 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
643
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644- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
645 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
646 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
647 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
648 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 649 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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650 configuration.
651
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652- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
653 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
654
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655- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
656 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
657 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
658 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
659
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660- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
661 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
662 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
663 was always properly set.
664
adbef119 665 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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666
667- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
668 be recognized.
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670 Changes since 4.1.0a2
671
672- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
673 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
674 "abandoned".
675
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676- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
677
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678- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
679 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
680
681- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
682 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
683
684- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 685 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 686
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687- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
688
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689- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
690 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
691 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
692 in future releases.
693
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694- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
695 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
696
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697- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
698 'dhclient -6' support.
699
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700- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
701 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
702 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
703 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
704
7d6180be 705 Changes since 4.1.0a1
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706
707- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
708
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709- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
710
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711- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
712 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
713 only the latter. Fixed.
714
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715- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
716
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717- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
718 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
719
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720- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
721
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722- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
723
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724- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
725 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
726 --enable-early-chroot.
727
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728- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
729 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
730
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731- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
732 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
733 parameter.
734
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735- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
736 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
737
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738- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
739 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
740
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741- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
742
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743- Merged IA_XX related structures.
744
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745- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
746
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747- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
748
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749- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
750 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
751 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
752
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753- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
754 support.
755
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756- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
757 repaired.
758
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759- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
760
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761- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
762
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763- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
764 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
765
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766- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
767 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
768
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769- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
770 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
771
772- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
773 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
774 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
775 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
776 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
777 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
778 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
779 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
780 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
781 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
782 shared-network.
783
784- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
785 configured option values.
786
787- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
788 support class statements.
789
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790- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
791 selection were repaired.
792
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793- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
794 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
795 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
796 by the OS.
797
798- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
799 address.
800
801- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
802 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
803
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804- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
805
806- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
807
808- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
809 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
810
01a54c17 811 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 812
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813- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
814
4cafb815 815- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 816 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 817
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818- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
819 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
820 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
821
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822- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
823 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
824
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825- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
826
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827- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
828 reserved IDs avoided).
829
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830- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
831
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832- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
833 carries a rapid-commit option.
834
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835- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
836 an empty active lease.
837
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838- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
839
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840- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
841 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
842 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
843 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
844
845- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
846
847- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
848 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
849 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
850 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
851 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
852 Christof Chen.
853
854 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
855
856- DHCP now builds on AIX.
857
858- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
859 config file but -6 is not specified.
860
861- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
862
863- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
864 be more helpful.
865
866- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
867 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
868 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
869
870- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
871 was repaired.
872
873- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
874 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
875 been repaired.
876
877- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
878 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
879 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
880
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881- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
882 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
883
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884- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
885 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
886 IPv4 address.
887
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888- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
889 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
890 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
891 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
892 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
893
894- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
895 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
896 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
897
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898- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
899
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900- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
901
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902- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
903 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
904 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
905 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
906 unnecessary logging.
907
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908- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
909 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
910
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911- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
912 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
913 is incompatible is printed.
914
915- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
916 a previously undefined option code.
917
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918- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
919 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
920
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921- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
922 than the year 2000.
923
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924- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
925
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926- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
927
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928- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
929
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930 Changes since 4.0.0b3
931
932- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
933 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
934 configuration.
76db44f9 935
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936- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
937 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
938
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939- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
940 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
941 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 942
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943- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
944 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
945 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
946 a requested address.
947
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948- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
949 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
950 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
951 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
952
953- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
954 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
955 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
956 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
957
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958- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
959 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
960 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
961
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962- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
963 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
964
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965- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
966
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967- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
968 codes through some conditions.
969
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970- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
971 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
972
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973- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
974 seemingly random values.
975
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976- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
977
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978- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
979 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
980 one ever has.
981
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982- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
983 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
984 to a REQUEST.
985
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986- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
987 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
988 level.
989
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990 Changes since 4.0.0b2
991
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992- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
993
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994- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
995 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
996 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
997 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
998 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
999
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1000- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1001 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1002 new address.
1003
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1004 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1005
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1006- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1007 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1008 simultaneously on a single interface.
1009
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1010- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1011 of service under unusual server configurations
1012
1013- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1014
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1015- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1016 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1017
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1018- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1019 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1020 on every pool rebalance run.
1021
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1022- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1023 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1024
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1025- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1026 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1027
ab3a540f 1028 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1029
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1030- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1031 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1032
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1033- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1034 point out the problem.
1035
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1036- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1037 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1038 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1039
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1040- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1041 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1042
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1043- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1044 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1045 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1046
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1047- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1048
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1049- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1050 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1051
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1052- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1053 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1054 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1055 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1056
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1057- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1058
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1059- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1060 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1061 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1062 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1063 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1064
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1065- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1066
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1067 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1068
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1069- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1070 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1071
763cba6b 1072- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1073
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1074- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1075 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1076 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1077
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1078- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1079
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1080- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1081 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1082
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1083- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1084 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1085 loaded from persistent storage.
1086
45d545f0 1087- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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1088 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1089 necessary.
1090
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1091- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1092 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1093 rapid-commit option.
1094
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1095- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1096 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1097
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1098 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1099
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1100- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1101 and fix.
1102
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1103- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1104
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1105- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1106
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1107- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1108 for when loading configuration.
1109
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1110- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1111 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1112 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1113
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1114- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1115 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1116 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1117 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1118
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1119- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1120
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1121- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1122 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1123
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1124- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1125
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1126- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1127
1128- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1129 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1130
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1131- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1132 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1133
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1134- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1135
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1136- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1137 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1138
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1139 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1140
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1141- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1142
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1143- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1144 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1145
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1146- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1147
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1148- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1149 initialized.
1150
1151- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1152
1153- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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1154 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1155
1156- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 1157
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1158- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1159
1160- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1161 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1162
1163- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1164
8ea19a71 1165- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1166 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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1167
1168- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1169 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1170
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1171- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1172
1173- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1174
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1175- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1176
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1177 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1178
1179- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1180 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1181 no support currently for both.
1182
1183- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1184 IAADDR option.
1185
1186- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1187 options.
1188
1189- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1190
1191- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1192 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1193
1194- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1195 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1196 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1197
1198- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1199 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1200
1201- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1202 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1203 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1204 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1205 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1206 differently, they both use the same code here).
1207
1208- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1209 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1210 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1211
1212- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1213
1214- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1215 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1216 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1217 it should not intercept.
1218
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1219 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1220
1221- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1222 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1223 between primary and secondary.
1224
1225- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1226 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1227 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1228
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1229- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1230
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1231- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1232 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1233 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1234 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1235 or REQUEST messages.
1236
1237- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1238 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1239
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1240- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1241
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1242 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1243
1244- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1245 failover protected subnets was removed.
1246
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1247 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1248
1249- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1250 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1251 odd number of leases).
1252
1253- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1254 rebalance run, and one after.
1255
1256- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1257 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1258 processing these messages.
1259
fe5b0fdd 1260 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 1261
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1262- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1263 objects.
1264
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1265- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1266 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1267 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1268 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1269 at Allianz.
1270
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1271- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1272 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1273
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1274- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1275 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1276
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1277- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1278 caused the server to abort.
1279
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1280- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1281 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1282 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1283
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1284- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1285 by empty spaces would not get included.
1286
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1287- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1288 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1289
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1290- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1291 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1292
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1293- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1294 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1295
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1296- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1297 on the parameter request list.
1298
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1299 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1300
1301- Some spelling fixes.
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1303 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1304
1305- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1306 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1307
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1308- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1309 domain-search option syntax.
1310
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1311 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1312
1313- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1314 hash table was repaired.
1315
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1316- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1317 entering normal state.
1318
1319- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1320 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1321 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1322
1323- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1324 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 1325
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1326- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1327 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1328 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1329 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1330
45d545f0 1331- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1332 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1333 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1334 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1335 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1336 to their needs.
1337
1338- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1339 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1340 run will attempt balance.
1341
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1342- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1343
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1344 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1345
1346- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1347 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1348 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1349 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1350
98bd7ca0 1351- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1352 was introduced.
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1353
1354- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1355 via OMAPI.
1356
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1357- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1358 the protocol draft.
1359
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1360- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1361 one does not already exist on the system.
1362
b43c87ad 1363- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1364
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1365- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1366 matches RFC 3074.
1367
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1368- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1369 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1370 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 1371
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1372- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1373 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1374 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 1375
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1376- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1377 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1378 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1379 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1380
1381- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1382 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1383 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1384 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1385
f7fdb216 1386- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1387 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1388 DHCPv6 support.
1389
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1390- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1391 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1392 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1393
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1394- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1395 have been incorporated.
1396
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1397- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1398 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1399 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1400 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1401 that belong to the peer in need.
1402
1403- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1404 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1405
1406- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1407 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1408 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1409
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1410- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1411 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1412
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1413- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1414 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1415 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1416 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1417 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1418
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1419- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1420 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1421 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1422 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1423
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1424- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1425 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1426 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1427 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1428 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1429 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1430 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1431 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1432 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1433
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1434- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1435 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1436
41e45067 1437- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1438 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1439 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1440 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1441
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1442- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1443 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1444 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1445 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 1446
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1447- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1448 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1449 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1450 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1451 via Robin Breathe.
1452
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1453- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1454 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1455 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1456 from Christof Chen.
1457
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1458- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1459 formally supported.
1460
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1461 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1462
1463- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1464 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1465
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1466 Changes since 3.0.5
1467
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1468- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1469 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1470 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1471 they actually received.
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1472
1473- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1474
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1475- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1476 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1477 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1478 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 1479
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1480- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1481
d69fb6a8 1482- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1483 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 1484
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1485- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1486 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1487 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1488 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1489 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1490 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1491 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1492 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1493
1494- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1495 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1496 'file' field.
02428754 1497
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1498- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1499 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1500
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1501- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1502 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1503 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1504
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1505- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1506 from Chris Wagner.
1507
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1508- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1509 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1510 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1511
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1512- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1513 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1514 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1515 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1516 was set.
1517
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1518- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1519 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1520
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1521- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1522 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1523 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1524 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1525 active ones.
1526
02428754 1527 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1528
901306d5 1529- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1530 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1531 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1532 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1533 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1534
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1535- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1536 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1537
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1538 Changes since 3.0.4
1539
1540- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1541 scopes are actually global has been added.
1542
1543- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1544 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1545 known to be damaging.
1546
1547- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1548 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1549 balancing).
1550
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1551- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1552 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1553 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1554
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1555- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1556 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1557 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1558
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1559- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1560 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1561 more clear now.
1562
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1563- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1564 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1565 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1566 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1567 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1568 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1570- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1571 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1572
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1573- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1574 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1575 made possible.
1576
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1577- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1578 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1579 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1580
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1581- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1582 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1583
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1584- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1585 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1586 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1587
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1588- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1589 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1590 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1591 value with the later configured value).
1592
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1593- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1594 have been named and documented.
1595
1596- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1597 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1598 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1599 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1600 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1601 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1602 write new output.
1603
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1604 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1605
1606- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1607 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1608
1609 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1610
1611- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1612 mailing list.
1613
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1614 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1615
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1617 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1618
1619- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1620 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1621
1622- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1623 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1624 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1625 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1626
1627- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1628 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1629 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1630 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1631 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1632 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1633 transition (properly).
1634
1635- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1636
1637 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1638
1639- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1640 STDIN after reading one line.
1641
1642- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1643 descriptor it opened twice.
1644
1645- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1646 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1647 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1648
1649 Changes since 3.0.3
1650
1651- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1652 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1653 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1654
1655- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1656 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1657 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1658
1659- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1660 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1661 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1662 leases to allocate.
1663
1664- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1665 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1666 than the entire block of them.
1667
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1668! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1669 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1670 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1671 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1672 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1673 to a patch from infamous42md.
1674
1675! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1676 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1677 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1678 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1679 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1680 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1681
1682- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1683 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1684 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1685
1686- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1687 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1688
1689- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1690 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1691 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1692 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1693 transitional states.
1694
1695- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1696 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1697 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1698
1699- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
1700 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
1701 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
1702
1703- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 1704 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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1705
1706- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
1707 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
1708
1709- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
1710 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
1711 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
1712
1713- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
1714 patch from 'infamous42md'.
1715
1716- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
1717 repaired.
1718
1719- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
1720 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
1721 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
1722 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
1723
1724- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
1725 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
1726 data.
1727
1728- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
1729 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
1730 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
1731 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
1732 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
1733
1734- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
1735 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
1736 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
1737 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
1738 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
1739
1740- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
1741 has been repaired.
1742
1743- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
1744 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
1745 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
1746 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 1747 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1748
1749- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 1750 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
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1753 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
1754 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
1755 move to 3.[01].x.
1756
1757- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
1758 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
1759
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1760 Changes since 3.0.3b3
1761
1762- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
1763 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
1764
1765- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
1766 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
1767 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
1768 workaround.
1769
1770 Changes since 3.0.3b2
1771
1772- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
1773 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
1774
1775 Changes since 3.0.3b1
1776
1777- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
1778 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
1779 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
1780
1781- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
1782 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
1783 dynamic updates were also retouched.
1784
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1785 Changes since 3.0.2
1786
1787- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 1788 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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1789 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
1790
1791- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
1792 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
1793 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
1794 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
1795 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
1796
1797- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
1798 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 1799 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1800
1801- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
1802 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 1803 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1804
1805- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
1806 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
1807 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
1808 Peter Poeml.
1809
1810- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
1811 Dr. Peter Poeml.
1812
1813- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
1814 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
1815 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
1816 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
1817 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
1818 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
1819
1820- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
1821 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
1822 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
1823 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
1824
1825- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
1826 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
1827 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
1828 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
1829
1830- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
1831 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
1832
1833- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
1834 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
1835 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
1836
1837- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
1838 7 bytes, and failover.
1839
1840- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
1841 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 1842 at Red Hat.
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1843
1844- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
1845 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
1846 should work better.
1847
1848- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
1849 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
1850 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
1851
1852- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
1853 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
1854 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
1855
1856 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
1857
1858- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
1859 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
1860
1861 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
1862
45d545f0 1863- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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1864 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
1865 overloading. This was repaired.
1866
1867- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
1868 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
1869 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
1870 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
1871 three chunks to fit.
1872
1873- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
1874 were repaired.
1875
1876- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
1877 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
1878 leak).
1879
1880 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
1881
1882- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
1883 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
1884
1885 Changes since 3.0.2b1
1886
1887- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
1888
1889 Changes since 3.0.1
1890
1891- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
1892 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
1893 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
1894
1895- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
1896 name was not provided by the server.
1897
1898- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
1899 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
1900
1901- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
1902 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
1903
1904- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
1905 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
1906
1907- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
1908
1909- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
1910
1911- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
1912 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
1913 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
1914 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
1915 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
1916
1917- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
1918 the configuration be globally scoped.
1919
1920- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
1921 Farkas.
1922
1923- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
1924 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
1925
1926- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
1927 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
1928
1929- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
1930 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
1931
1932- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
1933 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
1934 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
1935 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
1936
1937- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
1938 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
1939 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
1940 respond to POOLREQ messages.
1941
1942- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
1943 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
1944 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
1945
1946- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
1947
1948- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
1949 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
1950 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
1951
1952- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
1953 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
1954 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
1955 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
1956 Fjone and directconnect.no.
1957
1958- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
1959 to Andreas Gustafsson.
1960
1961- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
1962 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
1963
1964- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
1965 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
1966 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
1967 DISCOVER timeout handling.
1968
1969- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
1970 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
1971
1972- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
1973 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
1974 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
1975
1976- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
1977 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
1978 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
1979 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
1980 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
1981 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
1982
1983- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
1984 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
1985 Infoblox.
1986
1987- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
1988
1989- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
1990 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
1991 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
1992 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
1993 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
1994 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
1995 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
1996
1997- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
1998 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
1999 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2000
2001- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2002 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2003 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2004
2005- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2006
2007 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2008
2009- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2010 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2011 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2012 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2013 systems either.
2014
2015- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2016
2017- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2018 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2019 is false.
2020
2021- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2022 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2023
2024- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2025
2026 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2027
2028! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2029 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2030 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2031 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2032 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2033 both finding and solving the problem.
2034
2035! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
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2037 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2038 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2039 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2040 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2041 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2042 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2043 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2044 published version of ISC DHCP.
2045
2046- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2047
2048- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2049
2050 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2051
2052- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2053 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2054 Richard Hirst.
2055
2056- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2057 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2058 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2059
2060- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2061
2062- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2063 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2064 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2065 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2066
2067- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2068 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2069
2070- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2071 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2072
2073- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2074
2075 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2076
2077- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2078 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2079
2080- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2081 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2082 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2083
2084- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2085 by name was fixed.
2086
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2088 longer result in error.
2089
2090- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2091
2092- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2093 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2094 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2095
2096- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2097 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2098
2099- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2100 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2101 Blapp.
2102
2103- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2104 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2105 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2106 Martin Blapp.
2107
2108- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2109 expiry times in failover configurations.
2110
2111- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2112 Steve G.
2113
2114- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2115 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2116
2117- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2118 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2119 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2120 now "unknown-144".
2121
2122- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2123 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2124
2125 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2126
2127- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2128
2129- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2130 not be bash.
2131
2132- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2133
2134- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2135 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2136 that errored before will now work properly.
2137
2138- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2139 names was repaired.
2140
2141- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2142 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2143 configuration file.
2144
2145- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2146 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2147
2148- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2149 error rather than a null dereference.
2150
2151 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2152
2153- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2154
2155- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2156
2157- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2158 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2159
2160- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2161
2162- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2163
2164- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2165 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2166 self-corrupting lease databases.
2167
2168- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2169
2170- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2171 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2172
2173- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2174
2175- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2176
2177- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2178 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2179 Ling Gou.
2180
2181- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2182 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2183
2184- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2185 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2186 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2187
2188- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2189 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2190
2191 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2192
2193- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2194 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2195
2196- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2197
2198- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2199 a memory leak.
2200
2201- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2202 script.
2203
2204- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2205
2206- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2207
2208- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2209
2210- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2211
2212- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2213
2214- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2215
2216- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2217
2218- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2219
2220- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2221
2222- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2223
2224- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2225
2226- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2227
2228 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2229
2230- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2231 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2232 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2233
2234 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2235
2236- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2237 to be renewed.
2238
2239- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2240 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2241
2242- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2243 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2244
2245- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2246 that two permit lists matched.
2247
2248- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2249 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2250
2251- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2252
2253- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2254 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2255
2256- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2257
2258- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2259
2260- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2261 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2262 going to update its A record.
2263
2264- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2265 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2266 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2267 DNS server.
2268
2269- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2270
2271- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2272
2273- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2274 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2275 NetBSD project).
2276
2277- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2278 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2279
2280- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2281 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2282
2283- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2284
2285- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2286
2287- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2288 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2289 failover protocol standard.
2290
2291- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2292 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2293 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2294
2295- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2296 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2297 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2298 do so.
2299
2300- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2301
2302 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2303
2304- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2305
2306- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2307 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2308
2309- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2310 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2311
2312- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2313 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2314 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2315
2316- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2317 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2318 network, merge the two pools.
2319
2320- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2321 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2322 fix this bug.
2323
2324 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2325
2326- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2327 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2328
2329- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2330 the same case.
2331
2332- Additional documentation.
2333
2334- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2335 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2336
2337 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2338
2339- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2340- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2341
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2343
2344- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2345 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2346 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2347 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2348 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2349
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2351
2352- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2353 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2354 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2355 wasn't the one that removed it.
2356
2357- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2358 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2359 were not configured.
2360
2361- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2362
2363- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2364 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2365 routing information.
2366
2367- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2368 request being sent.
2369
2370- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2371 done.
2372
2373- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2374 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2375 were pending.
2376
2377- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2378 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2379 problems with failover.
2380
2381- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2382 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2383 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2384
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2386
2387- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2388 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2389
2390- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2391 no object is open, it dumps core.
2392
2393- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2394
2395- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2396
2397- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2398
2399- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2400 a host object attribute with a null value.
2401
2402 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2403
2404- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2405
2406- Fix an obscure core dump.
2407
2408- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2409 when crucial information is left out.
2410
2411- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2412
2413- Documentation updates.
2414
2415 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2416
2417- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2418
2419- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2420 structure wasn't zeroed.
2421
2422- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2423 incorrectly.
2424
2425- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2426 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2427 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2428 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2429 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2430 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2431 restarted.
2432
2433 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2434
2435- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2436 in failover-enabled pools.
2437
2438- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2439 declarations).
2440
2441- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2442 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2443
2444- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2445 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2446
2447- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2448
2449- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2450 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2451
2452- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2453
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2455
2456- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2457
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2459
2460- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2461
2462- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2463
2464- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2465
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2467
2468- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2469 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2470 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2471
2472- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2473 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2474 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2475 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2476 string.
2477
2478- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2479
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2481
2482- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2483 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2484
2485- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2486 malformed packets.
2487
2488- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2489
2490- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2491 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2492 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2493
2494- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2495
2496- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2497
2498- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2499
2500- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2501 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2502
2503- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2504 tcp connections from being played back.
2505
2506- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2507 on exit.
2508
2509- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2510
2511- Add some configurability to the build system.
2512
2513- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2514
2515- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2516 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2517 hadn't been noticed until now.
2518
2519 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2520
2521- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2522 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2523
2524- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2525 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2526 conformant, but also didn't work).
2527
2528- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2529 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2530
2531- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2532 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2533
2534- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2535 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2536
2537- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2538 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2539
2540- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2541 doing failover.
2542
2543- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2544 running on alpha processors.
2545
2546- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2547 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2548
2549- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2550
2551- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2552
2553- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2554 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2555
2556- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2557
2558- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2559 actually named (key names are domain names).
2560
2561- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2562
2563- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2564 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2565
2566- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2567 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2568
2569- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2570 statements.
2571
2572- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2573 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2574
2575- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2576 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2577 operating.
2578
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2580
2581- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2582 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2583 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2584 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2585
2586- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2587 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2588
2589- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2590
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2592
2593- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2594 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2595
2596- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2597 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2598 to the chain.
2599
2600- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2601
2602- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2603
2604- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2605
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2608
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2610
2611- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2612
2613 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2614
2615- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2616 DHCPDECLINE.
2617
2618- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2619
2620- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2621 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2622 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2623
2624- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2625
2626- Documentation fixes.
2627
2628- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2629 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2630
2631- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2632 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2633
2634- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2635
2636- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2637
2638- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2639 case-insensitive.
2640
2641- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2642
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2645 consistently.
2646
2647- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2648 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2649
2650- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2651
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2653
2654- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2655 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2656 result of duplicate leases.
2657
2658- Document OMAPI server objects.
2659
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2661
2662- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2663 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2664
2665- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2666 core dumps.
2667
2668- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2669 Friedrich.
2670
2671- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2672
2673 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2674
2675- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2676 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
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2679
2680- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2681 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2682
2683- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2684 trace file.
2685
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2688- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2689 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2690 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2691 e.g., Digital Unix.
2692
2693- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2694 when no error had occurred.
2695
2696- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2697 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2698 non-communicating state.
2699
2700- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
2701
2702- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
2703 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
2704 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
2705
2706- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
2707 when the client lease expired.
2708
2709- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
2710 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
2711 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
2712 in testing.
2713
2714- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
2715 the command line, it would fail.
2716
2717- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
2718 user impact).
2719
2720- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
2721
2722- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
2723 they're executable.
2724
2725 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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2727- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
2728 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
2729 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
2730 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
2731
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2733 Transmeta.
2734
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2735- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
2736 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
2737 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
2738 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
2739
2740- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
2741 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
2742
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2744
2745- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
2746 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
2747
2748- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
2749
2750- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
2751
2752- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
2753
2754- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
2755
2756- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
2757
2758- Update some parts of the README file.
2759
2760- Support GCC on SCO.
2761
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2764- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
2765 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
2766
2767- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
2768 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
2769 unbill the old class.
2770
2771- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
2772 process the state transition immediately.
2773
2774- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
2775 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
2776
2777- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
2778
2779- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
2780
2781- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
2782
2783- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
2784
2785- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
2786 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
2787 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
2788
2789- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
2790 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
2791
2792- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
2793 lease file.
2794
2795- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
2796
2797- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
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2800
2801- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
2802 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
2803
2804- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
2805
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2807
2808- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
2809
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2811
2812- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
2813
2814- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
2815 pl19.
2816
2817- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
2818 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
2819 past the regression test.
2820
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2822
2823- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
2824 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
2825
2826- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
2827 DHCPREQUEST.
2828
2829- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
2830
2831- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
2832
2833- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
2834
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2837- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
2838 (Damien Neil)
2839
2840- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
2841 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
2842
2843- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
2844 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
2845 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
2846
2847- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
2848 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
2849 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
2850 message.
2851
2852- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
2853 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
2854 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
2855
98311e4b 2856- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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2857 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
2858 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
2859 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
2860 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
2861 this way will work.
2862
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2863- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
2864
2865- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
2866 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
2867 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
2868 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
2869
2870 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
2871
2872 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
2873
2874- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
2875 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
2876 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
2877
2878- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
2879 Hermann Lauer.
2880
2881- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
2882 messages.
2883
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2884- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
2885 it contained quoted strings.
2886
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2887 ** there was no pl17 **
2888
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2891- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
2892 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
2893 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
2894 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
2895 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
2896 tracking down memory leaks.
2897
2898- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
2899 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
2900 Solaris.
2901
2902- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
2903 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
2904 corruption and core dumps.
2905
2906- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
2907 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
2908
2909- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
2910
2911- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
2912 and implemented by Damien Neil.
2913
2914- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
2915 name and version to standard output.
2916
2917- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
2918
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2919- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
2920 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
2921
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2922- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
2923
2924- Lots of documentation updates.
2925
2926- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
2927 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
2928
2929- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
2930
2931- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
2932 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
2933
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2935
2936- Some documentation tweaks.
2937
2938- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
2939
2940- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
2941
2942- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
2943 agent options into them.
2944
2945- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
2946
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2947- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
2948 options.
2949
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2951
2952- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
2953 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
2954 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
2955 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
2956 used in class statements to control address allocation.
2957
2958- Fix up documentation.
2959
2960- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
2961 significantly in a high-demand situation.
2962
2963- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
2964
2965- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
2966
2967- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
2968 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
2969 practical use otherwise.
2970
2971- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
2972 for debugging.
2973
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2975
2976- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
2977 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
2978 dump on some systems.
2979
2980- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
2981 option.
2982
2983- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
2984 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
2985
2986- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
2987 that were not printing enough information.
2988
2989- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
2990 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
2991
2992- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
2993 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
2994 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
2995 were answering.
2996
2997- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
2998 the transition.
2999
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3002
3003- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3004
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3005 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3006
3007- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3008 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3009 representation from working correctly.
3010
3011- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3012 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3013 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3014 could spin.
3015
3016- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3017 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3018
3019- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3020 interface name on the command line.
3021
3022- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3023 client state.
3024
3025- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3026 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3027 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3028 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3029 added by Ted Lemon.
3030
3031- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3032 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3033
3034- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3035 end option.
3036
3037- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3038 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3039 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3040
3041- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3042 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3043 face of a null hardware address on input.
3044
3045- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3046 specified unqualified.
3047
3048- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3049 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3050
3051- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3052 RFC.
3053
3054- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3055
3056- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3057
3058- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3059 it works.
3060
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3061 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3062
3063- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3064 to CVS.
3065
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3066 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3067
3068- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3069
3070- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3071 in patchlevel 9.
3072
3073- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3074 options at renewal time.
3075
3076- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3077 configuration language.
3078
3079- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3080
3081- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3082 done when no client hostname was received.
3083
3084- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3085
3086- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3087 the DHCP option space.
3088
3089- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3090
3091- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3092 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3093
3094- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3095 silently dropped.
3096
3097- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3098 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3099
3100- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3101 will be correctly updated.
3102
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3103 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3104
3105- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3106 bounds-checking.
3107
3108 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3109
3110- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3111
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3114- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3115 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3116 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3117
3118- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3119 option.
3120
3121- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3122 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3123 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3124 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3125 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3126 meaningfully.
3127
3128- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3129 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3130 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3131
3132- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3133 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3134 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3135 this one down!
3136
3137- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3138 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3139 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3140 down and fixing this problem.
3141
3142 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3143
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3144- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3145 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3146
3147- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3148 environment.
3149
3150- Fix suffix operator.
3151
3152- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3153
3154- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3155 connection code.
3156
3157- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3158
3159- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3160
3161- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3162 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3163
3164- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3165
3166- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3167
3168- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3169 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3170
3171- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3172 spawn with.
3173
3174- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3175 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3176
3177- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3178 for OMAPI.
3179
3180- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3181 can install in host declarations.
3182
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3183 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3184
3185- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3186 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3187 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3188 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3189 comments)!
3190
3191- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3192
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3193- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3194 request for help on this with patches!
3195
3196- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3197 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3198 lost, they never reconnect.
3199
3200- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3201 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3202
3203- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3204 dump.
3205
3206- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3207 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3208 catching this one.
3209
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3210 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3211
3212- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3213 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3214 lease renewal time.
3215
3216- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3217 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3218 declared without a key.
3219
3220- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3221
3222- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3223 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3224
3225- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3226 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3227 determine the maximum size of the response.
3228
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3229 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3230
359b023e
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3231- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3232 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3233
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3234- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3235 RENEWING client.
3236
3237- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3238
3239- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3240 using memcmp().
3241
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3242 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3243
3244- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3245 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3246 pointing this out.
3247
3248- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3249 exit.
3250
3251- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3252
3253- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3254 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.