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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.3.3b1
3 04 August 2015
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
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15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
21This release also adds suppport for the standard DDNS as described in the
22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
98bf1607 24
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
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55 Changes since 4.3.2
56
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57- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
58 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
59 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
60 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
61 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
62 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
63 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
64
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65- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
66 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
67 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
68 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
69 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
70 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
71 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
72 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
73 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
74 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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75 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for this issue and his patch which
76 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 77 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
c2419dca 78
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79- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
80 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
81 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
82 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 83 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
20c0fdc7 84
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85- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
86 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
87 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
88 a proper length for it.
89 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
90
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91- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
92 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
93 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
94 reasonable to remove it.
95 [ISC-Buts #39019]
96
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97- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
98 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
99 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
100 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
101
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102- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
103 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
104 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
105 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
106 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
107
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108- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
109 table 3.
110 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
111
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112- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
113 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
114 the issue and suggesting the patch.
115 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
116
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117- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
118 of as a token.
119 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
120
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121- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
122 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
123 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
124 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
125 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
126 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
127 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
128
cca6a648 129- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
130 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
131 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
132 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
133
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134- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
135 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
136 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
137
cca6a648 138- Corrected a crash in dhclient that occurs during lease renewal if the
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139 client is performing its own DNS updates. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
140 for the bug report.
cca6a648 141 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
142
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143- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
144 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
145 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
146 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
147 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
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148 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
149 reporting the issue.
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150 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
151
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152- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
153 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
154 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
155 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
156 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
157 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
158 itself.
159 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
160
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161- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
162 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
163 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
164 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
165
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166- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
167 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
168 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
169 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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171- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
172 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
173 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
174 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
175 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
176
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177- Fixed a server crash that could occur when the server attempts to remove
178 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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179 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
180 issue.
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181 [ISC-Bugs #39978]
182
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183- LDAP Patches - Numerous small patches submitted by contributors have
184 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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185 In addition, two larger submissions have also been included. The
186 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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187 GSSAPI authentication. We would like to thank the following for their
188 contributions (alphabetically):
189 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 190 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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191 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
192 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 193 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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194 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
195 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
196 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
197 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
198 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
199 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
200 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
201 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
202 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
203 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
204 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
205 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
206 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
207 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
208
af25ded3 209- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
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210 Thanks to Frédéric Perrin from Brocade for finding the issue
211 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 212 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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b31fe1d5 214 Changes since 4.3.2rc2
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215- None
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217 Changes since 4.3.2rc1
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219- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
220 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
221 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
222 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
223 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
224
45adf35c 225 Changes since 4.3.2b1
4d9b81fc 226
45adf35c 227- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 228 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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229 incorrectly enabled debug features. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias for reporting
230 the issue.
4e1bf548 231 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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233- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
234 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
235 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
236 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
237 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
238 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
239 tests.
240 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
241 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
242 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
243 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
244 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
245 use the command "make -k check".
246 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
247
36e2c224 248 Changes since 4.3.1
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250- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
251 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
252
3ffc07de 253- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
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254 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
255 and hmac-sha512
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256 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
257
fa54ba10 258- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
45adf35c 259 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
fa54ba10 260 patch.
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261 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
262
fa54ba10 263- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
45adf35c 264 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
fa54ba10 265 provided the patch.
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266 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
267
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268- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
269 after the configuration file has been processed.
270 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
271
36e2c224 272- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
6444928c 273 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
c7c11ea1 274 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
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275 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
276 compilers that was introduced by #36712
906ec9a7 277
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278- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
279 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
280
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281- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
282 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
283 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
284 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
285 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
adb95d23 286 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
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287 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
288
bd49432f 289- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
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290 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
291 bug report and patch.
bd49432f 292 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
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293 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
294 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
295 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
296 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
297
298- Addressed checksum issues:
299 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
300 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
301 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
302 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
303 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
304 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
305 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
306 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
307 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
45adf35c 308 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
7ff6ae5a 309 than being dropped.
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310 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
311 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
312
313- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
314 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
315 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
316 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
317 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
318 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
319 inbound request to a known subnet.
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320 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
321 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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323- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
324 BOOTP request handling.
325 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
326
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327- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
328 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
329 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
330 the patch upon which the fix is based.
331 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
332
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333- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
334 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
335 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
336 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
337 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
338 modified to send requests more often.
339 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
340 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
341
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342- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
343 name from the following in order of preference:
344
345 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
346 2. Host name option if provided by the client
347 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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349 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
350 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
351 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
352 and no other value is available.
353 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
354
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355- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
356 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
357 corrected.
358 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
59990751 359 [ISC-Bugs #38686]
f3a44c10 360
04daf4fe 361- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
45adf35c 362 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
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363 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
364 components.
365 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
366
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367- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
368 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
369 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
ebb1d91e 370 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
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371 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
372 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
adb95d23 373 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
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374 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
375
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376- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
377 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
378 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
379 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
380 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
381 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
382 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
383 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
384
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385- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
386 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
387 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
388 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
389 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
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390 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
391 bug and supplying a patch.
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392 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
393
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394- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
395 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
396 leae expiration code.
397 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
398
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399- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
400 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
401 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
402 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
403 files.
404 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
001b9d53 405 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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407- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
408 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
409 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
410 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
411
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412- Modified linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
413 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
414 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
415 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
416 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
417 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
418 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
419 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
420 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
421
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422- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
423 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
424 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
425 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
426 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
427 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
428 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
429 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
430 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
431
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432- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
433 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
434 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
435 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
436 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
437 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
438 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
439 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
440 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
f48dfdf1 441 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
1a006ff6 442
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443- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
444 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
445 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
446 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
447 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
448 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
449 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
450 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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452
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455- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
456 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
457 bug report and patch.
f542e92b 458 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
7d9dd306 459
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460- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
461 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
462 code consistent across versions.
463 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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57187138 465 Changes since 4.3.0
01a44a77 466
5ade3c84 467- Tidy up several small tickets.
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468 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
469 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
9a111ee8 470 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
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471 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
472 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
473 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
474 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
475 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
476 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
477 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
01a44a77 478
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479- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
480 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
481
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482- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
483 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
484 Popelka at Red Hat.
485 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
486
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487- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
488 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
489
5ade3c84 490- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
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491 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
492
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493- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
494 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
495 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
496
5ade3c84 497- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
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498 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
499 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
500 option in the list.
501 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
502
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503- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
504 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
505 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
2c4be1d7 506 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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508- Remove unused RCSID tags.
509 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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511- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
512 for MRT limit it to MRD.
5ade3c84 513 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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514 [ISC-Bugs #21238
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516- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
517 when a server, relay or client are killed.
518 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
519 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
520
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522 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
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523 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
524 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
525 given the "-1" argument.
5ade3c84 526 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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527 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
528 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
529 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
530 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
531 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
532 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
533 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
534 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
535
5ade3c84 536- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
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537 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
538 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
539 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
540 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
5ade3c84 541 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
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542 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
543 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
544 to syslog.
545
5ade3c84 546- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
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547 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
548 number in syslog messages.
549 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
550 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
551
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552- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
553 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
554 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
555 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
63c8800c 556 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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558- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
559 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
560 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
561 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
562 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
563 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
564
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565- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
566 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
567 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
568
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569- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
570 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
571 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
572
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573- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
574 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
575 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
576
a89fd0cd 577- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
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578 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
579 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
580 in a pool are used.
581 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
582
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583- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
584 on an error condition.
e9326fd0 585 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
b05e05b7 586
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587- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
588 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
589
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590- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
591 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
592 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
593
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595
596- None
597 Changes since 4.3.0b1
598
599- Tidy up receive packet processing.
600 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
601 a possible patch.
602 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
603
604 Changes since 4.3.0a1
605
606- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
607 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
608 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
609 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
610
611- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
612 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
613
6980ae03 614 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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616- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
617 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
618 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
619 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
620 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
621 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 622 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 623 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 624 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 625 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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627- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
628 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
629 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
630
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631- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
632 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
633 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
634 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 635 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
32e651c4 636
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637- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
638 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
639 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
640 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
641 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
642 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
643
a7341359 644- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 645 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
a7341359 646
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647- Add support for using classes with v6.
648 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
649
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650- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
651 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
652 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
653 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
654 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
655 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
656 that work with some modifications.
64fb661c 657 [ISC-Bugs #21139]
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659- Add a configuration option to the server to suppress using fsync().
660 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
661 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
662 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
663 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
664 not recommended.
64fb661c 665 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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667- Add some logging statements to indicate when the server is ready
668 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
669 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
670 This is "Server starting service.".
671 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
672 its failover peer are in the normal state.
673 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
64fb661c 674 [ISC-Bugs #33208]
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676- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
677 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
678 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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679 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
680 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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681 man page for a description.
682 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
683
e54ff84f 684- When doing DDNS if there isn't an appropriate zone statement attempt
80778e94 685 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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686 some functionality that was lost in the transition to asynchronous
687 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
688 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
689 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
690 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
691
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692- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
693 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
694 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
695 one instance of their respective address types.
696 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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698- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
699 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
700 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
701 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 702 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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703 [ISC-Bugs #32427]
704 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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706- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
707 and take host declarations into account.
708 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
709 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
710
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711- Extend the hardware expression to look into the lease structure
712 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
713 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
714 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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716- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
717 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
ccc2a367 718 [ISC-Bugs #35198]
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01a44a77 720 Changes since 4.2.0 (bug fixes)
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722- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
723 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 724
01a44a77 725- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
4889a646 726
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727- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
728 reflect support for prefix delegation.
4889a646 729
01a44a77 730- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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732- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
733 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
734 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
735 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
736 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
737 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 738
01a44a77 739- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
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741- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
742 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
dc9d7b08 743
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744- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
745 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
746 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
747 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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749- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
750 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
751 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
752 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
753 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
754 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
755 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
756 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
757 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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759- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
760 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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762! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
763 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
764 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
765 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 766
01a44a77 767- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
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769- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
770 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
771 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
772 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
773 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
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775- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
776 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
777 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
778 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
779 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 780
01a44a77 781- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 782
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783- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
784 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
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786- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
787 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
788 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
789 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
790 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
791 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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793- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
794 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
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796 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
797 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
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799 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
800 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
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802 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
803 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 804
01a44a77 805- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
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807- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
808 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
809 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
810 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
811 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
812 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
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814- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
815 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
816 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
817 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
818 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
819 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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821- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
822 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
823 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 824
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825- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
826 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
827 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
828 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 829
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830- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
831 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 832
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833- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
834 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
835 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 836
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837- Minor code fixes
838 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
839 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
840 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
841 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
842 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
843 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 844 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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845 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
846 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
847 Thanks to Martin Pala.
848 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
849 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 850
01a44a77 851- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
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853- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
854 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 855
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856- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
857 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
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859- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
860 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 861
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862- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
863 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
864 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
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866- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
867 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
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869- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
870 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
871 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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873- Fixes to lease input and output.
874 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
875 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
876 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
877 characters.
878 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
879 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 880
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881- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
882 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
883 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
884 at Red Hat.
885 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
886 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
887 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 888 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
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890- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
891 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
892 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
893 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 894
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896 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
897 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
898 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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900- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
901 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
902 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
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904- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
905 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
906 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
907 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
908 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
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910- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
911 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
912 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
913 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
914 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 915
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917 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
918 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
919 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
920 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 921 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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923- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
924 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
925 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 926
adb95d23 927- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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928 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
929 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
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931- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
932 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
933 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
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935- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
936 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
937 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
938 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
939 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
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941- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
942 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
943 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
944 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
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947 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
948 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
949 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
950 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
951 and reset its timeout value.
952 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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954- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
955 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
956 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
957 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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960 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
961 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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964 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 965 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 966 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
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968- Some fixes for LDAP
969 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
970 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
971 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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973- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
974 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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976! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
977 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
978 interfaces with the OS.
979 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
980 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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982- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
983 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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985- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
986 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
987 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
988 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
989 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
990 in v6 mode at configure time.
991 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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993- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
994 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 995 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 996 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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998- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
999 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1000 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1001 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1002 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1004- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1005 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1006 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1007 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1008 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1010- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1011 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1012 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1013 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1014 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1016- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1017 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1018 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1020- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1021 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1022 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1023 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1024 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1026- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1027 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1028 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1029
1030- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1031 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1032 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1034- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1035 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1036 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1037 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1038 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1039 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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1041- Documentation fixes
1042 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1043 responses to the all-ones address.
1044 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1045 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1046
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1047- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1048 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1049 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1050 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1051
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1052- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1053 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1054
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1055- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1056 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1057 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1058
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1059- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1060 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1061 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1062 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1063 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1064 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1065 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1066 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1067 enable this except for testing purposes.
1068 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1069 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1070
c616de4f 1071- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1072 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1074- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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1076- Client Script fixes
1077 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1078 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1079 the domain search address is link local.
1080 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1081 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1082 being changed.
1083
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1084- Documentation cleanup
1085 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1086
9a111ee8 1087- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1088 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1089
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1090- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1091 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1092 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1093 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1094
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1095- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1096 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1097 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1098
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1099- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1100 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1101
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1102- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1103 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1104 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1105 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1106 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1107 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1108
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1109- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1110 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1111 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1112 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1113 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1114 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1115 in site.h then server will be terminated
1116 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1117
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1118! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1119 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1120 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1121 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1122 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1123 CVE-2011-2748
1124 CVE-2011-2749
1125
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1126- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1127 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1128 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1129 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1130
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1131- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1132 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1133
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1134- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1135 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1136
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1137- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1138 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1139
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1140! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1141 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1142 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1143 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1144 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1145 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
57fbc772 1146
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1147! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1148 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1149 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1150 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1151 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1152 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1153 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1154 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1155 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1156 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1157 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1158 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
57fbc772 1159
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1160- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1161 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1162 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1163 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1164
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1165- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1166 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1167 from the DNS client code.
1168 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
57fbc772 1169
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1170- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1171 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
9a111ee8 1172
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1173- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1174 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1175 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1176 some issues we found in the socket code.
1177 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
197c917e 1178
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1179- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1180 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1181 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1182 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
8bd445a1 1183
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1184- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1185 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1186
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1187- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1188 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1189 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1190 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1191 weren't removed from the DNS.
1192 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1193
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1194- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1195 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1196 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1197 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1198
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1199- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1200 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1201 dynamic bootp clients.
1202 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1203
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1204- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1205 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1206 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1207 handing it out.
1208 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1209 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1210 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1211 for different IAs.
1212 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1213 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1214
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1215- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1216 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1217 an int as a boolean).
1218 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1219
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1220- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1221 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1222 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1223 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1224 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1225 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1226 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1227 may be removed in the future.
1228 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1229 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1230
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1231- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1232 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1233 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1234 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1235
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1236- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1237 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1238 report and the first version of the patch.
1239 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1240
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1241- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1242 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1243 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1244 for reporting this issue.
1245 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1246
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1247- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1248 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1249 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1250 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1251 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1252 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1253 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1254 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1255 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1256 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1257
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1258! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1259 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1260 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1261 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1262 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1263 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1264 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1265 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1266 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1267 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1268 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1269 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1270
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1271! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1272 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1273 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1274 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1275 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1276 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1277
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1278! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1279 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1280 this issue.
1281 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1282 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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1284- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1285 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1286 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1287 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1288 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1289 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1290
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1291! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1292 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1293 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1294 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1295 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1296 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
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1298- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1299 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1300
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1301- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1302 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1303 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1304 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1305 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1306 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1307
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1308- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1309 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1310 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1311 freed in other cases.
1312 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1313
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1314- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1315 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1316 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1317 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1318 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1319 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1320 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1321 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1322
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1323- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1324 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1325 and patches.
1326 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1327
9a111ee8 1328- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1329 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1330
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1331- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1332 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1333 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1334
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1335- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1336 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1337 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1338 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1339 variables.
1340 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1341
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1342- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1343 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1344 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1345 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1346 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1347 enabling it.
1348 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1349
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1350- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1351 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1352
adb95d23 1353- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1354 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1355 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1356 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1357 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1358
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1359- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1360 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1361 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1362 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1363 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1364
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1365- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1366 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1367
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1368- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1369 and comment out a currently unused test.
1370 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1371
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1372- Address static analysis warnings.
1373 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1374
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1375- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1376 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1377
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1378- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1379 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1380
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1381- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1382 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1383
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1384- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1385 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1386 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1387
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1388- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1389 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1390 for the patch.
1391 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1392
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1393- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1394 objects.
1395 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1396
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1397- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1398 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1399 to work more consistently.
1400 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1401
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1402- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1403 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1404 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1405
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1406- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1407 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1408
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1409- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1410 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1411 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1412 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1413 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1414
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1415- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1416 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1417
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1418- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1419 to the clients.
1420 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1421
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1422- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1423 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1424
7aa153b8 1425
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1426 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1427
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1428- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1429 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1430 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1431
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1432- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1433 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1434 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1435
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1436- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1437 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1438
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1439- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1440
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1441- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1442 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1443 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1444 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1445 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1446 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1447
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1448- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1449 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1450 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1451 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1452 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1453 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1454 FQDN options by default).
1455
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1456- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1457 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1458 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1459 determined lease time) are omitted.
1460
adb95d23 1461- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1462 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1463 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1465- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1466 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1467 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1468
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1469 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1470
62f6843d
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1471- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1472
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1473- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1474
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1475- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1476 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1477 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1478 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1479 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1480
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1481- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1482
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DH
1483- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1484 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1485 had been deleted from configuration.
1486
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SR
1487- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1488 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1489 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1490 were being ignored.
1491
64e1823d
DH
1492- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1493
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DH
1494- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1495 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1496 Nordahl.
1497
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1498- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1499 dhcpv6 disabled.
1500
8d7dca58 1501- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1502 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1503
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1504- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1505 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1506
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1507- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1508 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1509 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1510
1511- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1512 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1513 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1514 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1515 fewer system calls.
1516
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1517- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1518 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1519 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1520 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1521 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1522 Christof Chen.
1523
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1524- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1525 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1526 and in normal state.
1527
1528- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1529 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1530
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PS
1531- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1532
1533- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1534 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1535 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1536
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DH
1537- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1538 rather than restarting the listener.
1539
a57df74a
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1540- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1541 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1542
1543- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1544 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1545 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1546
350576c5
DH
1547- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1548 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1549 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1550 timeouts).
1551
792156a9
DH
1552- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1553 in failover state records.
1554
8a4e543b
DH
1555! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1556 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1557 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1558 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1559
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DH
1560- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1561 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1562
1b12d999
DH
1563- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1564 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1565 last option definition is used.
1566
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1567- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1568 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1569 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1570
3e29af1e
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1571- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1572 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1573
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DH
1574- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1575 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1576 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1577 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1578 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1579 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1580
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DH
1581- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1582 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1583 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1584 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1585
e4e3a2ab
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1586! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1587 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1588
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SR
1589- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1590 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1591
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1592- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1593 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1594 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1595 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1596 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1597 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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1598 configuration.
1599
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DH
1600- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1601 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1602
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SR
1603- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1604 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1605 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1606 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1607
95bba8b6
SR
1608- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1609 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1610 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 1611 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 1612
adbef119 1613 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
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1614
1615- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1616 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1617
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1618 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1619
1620- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1621 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1622 "abandoned".
1623
6ff3b26d
FD
1624- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1625
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1626- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1627 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1628
1629- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1630 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1631
1632- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1633 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1634
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DH
1635- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1636
fbcee149
DH
1637- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1638 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1639 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1640 in future releases.
1641
f1672d89
DH
1642- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1643 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1644
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DH
1645- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1646 'dhclient -6' support.
1647
efa5e6b9
DH
1648- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1649 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1650 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1651 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1652
7d6180be 1653 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
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1654
1655- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1656
51e7687f
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1657- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1658
20210a7b
EH
1659- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1660 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1661 only the latter. Fixed.
1662
535485df
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1663- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1664
8fbb55ff
DH
1665- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1666 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1667
61220a00
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1668- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1669
c40e954c
EH
1670- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1671
63971a83
DH
1672- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1673 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1674 --enable-early-chroot.
1675
66cebfcb
DH
1676- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1677 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1678
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1679- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1680 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1681 parameter.
1682
8269561d
DH
1683- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1684 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1685
b445a411
DH
1686- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1687 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1688
bd72740e
FD
1689- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1690
9322442f
FD
1691- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1692
8dea7ba7
FD
1693- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1694
4619c0a2
DH
1695- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1696
9ac4206a
DH
1697- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1698 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1699 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1700
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FD
1701- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1702 support.
1703
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DH
1704- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1705 repaired.
1706
80097764
FD
1707- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1708
ffbaa880
FD
1709- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1710
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EH
1711- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1712 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1713
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1714- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1715 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1716
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DH
1717- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1718 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1719
1720- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1721 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1722 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1723 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1724 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1725 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1726 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1727 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1728 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1729 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1730 shared-network.
1731
1732- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1733 configured option values.
1734
1735- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1736 support class statements.
1737
adb95d23 1738- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
DH
1739 selection were repaired.
1740
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DH
1741- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1742 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1743 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1744 by the OS.
1745
1746- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1747 address.
1748
1749- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1750 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1751
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DH
1752- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1753
1754- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1755
1756- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1757 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1758
01a54c17 1759 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1760
6d7f9584
FD
1761- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1762
4cafb815 1763- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1764 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1765
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1766- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1767 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1768 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1769
9a111ee8 1770- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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1771 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1772
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1773- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1774
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FD
1775- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1776 reserved IDs avoided).
1777
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FD
1778- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1779
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FD
1780- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1781 carries a rapid-commit option.
1782
96b620e5
FD
1783- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1784 an empty active lease.
1785
be62cf06
FD
1786- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1787
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1788- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1789 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1790 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1791 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1792
adb95d23 1793- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
1794
1795- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1796 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1797 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1798 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1799 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1800 Christof Chen.
1801
1802 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1803
1804- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1805
1806- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1807 config file but -6 is not specified.
1808
1809- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1810
1811- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1812 be more helpful.
1813
1814- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1815 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1816 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1817
1818- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1819 was repaired.
1820
1821- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1822 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1823 been repaired.
1824
1825- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1826 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1827 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1828
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1829- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1830 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1831
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1832- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1833 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1834 IPv4 address.
1835
2c9bf1f4
DH
1836- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1837 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1838 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1839 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1840 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1841
1842- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1843 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1844 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1845
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1846- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1847
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1848- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1849
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1850- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1851 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1852 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 1853 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
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1854 unnecessary logging.
1855
219a65eb
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1856- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1857 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1858
ffdf3c8c
DH
1859- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1860 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1861 is incompatible is printed.
1862
1863- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1864 a previously undefined option code.
1865
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1866- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1867 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1868
9a111ee8 1869- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
FD
1870 than the year 2000.
1871
e2cfde76
FD
1872- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1873
cabdb9b1
FD
1874- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1875
5d89d60f
FD
1876- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1877
61d75ea2
DH
1878 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1879
1880- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1881 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1882 configuration.
76db44f9 1883
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1884- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1885 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1886
9a111ee8 1887- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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1888 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1889 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1890
9a111ee8
TM
1891- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1892 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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1893 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1894 a requested address.
1895
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1896- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1897 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1898 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1899 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1900
1901- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1902 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1903 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1904 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1905
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DH
1906- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1907 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1908 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1909
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DH
1910- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1911 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1912
1ac57173
FD
1913- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1914
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DH
1915- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1916 codes through some conditions.
1917
c54db708
FD
1918- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1919 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1920
e5d83524
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1921- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1922 seemingly random values.
1923
821f2dda
DH
1924- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1925
f8b3c6f4
DH
1926- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1927 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1928 one ever has.
1929
9a111ee8
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1930- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1931 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
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1932 to a REQUEST.
1933
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1934- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1935 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1936 level.
1937
e4a6be15
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1938 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1939
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1940- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1941
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1942- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1943 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1944 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1945 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1946 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1947
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1948- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1949 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1950 new address.
1951
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1952 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1953
75135a3f 1954- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 1955 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
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1956 simultaneously on a single interface.
1957
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1958- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1959 of service under unusual server configurations
1960
1961- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1962
9a111ee8 1963- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 1964 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1965
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1966- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1967 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1968 on every pool rebalance run.
1969
c71c6399
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1970- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1971 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1972
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1973- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1974 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1975
ab3a540f 1976 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1977
9a111ee8 1978- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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1979 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1980
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1981- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1982 point out the problem.
1983
9a111ee8 1984- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
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1985 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1986 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1987
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1988- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1989 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1990
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1991- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1992 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1993 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1994
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1995- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1996
9a111ee8 1997- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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1998 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1999
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2000- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2001 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2002 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2003 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2004
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2005- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2006
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2007- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2008 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2009 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2010 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2011 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2012
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2013- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2014
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2015 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2016
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2017- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2018 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2019
763cba6b 2020- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2021
237f8d3a 2022- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2023 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
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2024 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2025
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2026- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2027
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2028- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2029 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2030
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2031- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2032 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2033 loaded from persistent storage.
2034
45d545f0 2035- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
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2036 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2037 necessary.
2038
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2039- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2040 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2041 rapid-commit option.
2042
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2043- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2044 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2045
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2046 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2047
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2048- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2049 and fix.
2050
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2051- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2052
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2053- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2054
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2055- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2056 for when loading configuration.
2057
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2058- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2059 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2060 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2061
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2062- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2063 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2064 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2065 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2066
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2067- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2068
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2069- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2070 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2071
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2072- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2073
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2074- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2075
2076- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2077 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2078
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2079- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2080 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2081
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2082- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2083
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2084- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2085 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2086
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2087 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2088
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2089- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2090
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2091- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2092 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2093
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2094- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2095
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2096- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2097 initialized.
2098
2099- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2100
2101- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2102 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2103
2104- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2105
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2106- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2107
2108- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2109 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2110
2111- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2112
8ea19a71 2113- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2114 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
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2115
2116- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2117 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2118
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2119- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2120
2121- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2122
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2123- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2124
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2125 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2126
2127- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2128 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2129 no support currently for both.
2130
2131- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2132 IAADDR option.
2133
2134- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2135 options.
2136
2137- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2138
2139- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2140 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2141
2142- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2143 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2144 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2145
2146- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2147 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2148
2149- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2150 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2151 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2152 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2153 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2154 differently, they both use the same code here).
2155
2156- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2157 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2158 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2159
2160- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2161
2162- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2163 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2164 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2165 it should not intercept.
2166
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2167 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2168
2169- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2170 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2171 between primary and secondary.
2172
2173- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2174 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2175 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2176
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2177- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2178
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2179- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2180 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2181 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2182 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2183 or REQUEST messages.
2184
2185- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2186 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2187
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2188- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2189
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2190 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2191
adb95d23 2192- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
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2193 failover protected subnets was removed.
2194
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2195 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2196
2197- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2198 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2199 odd number of leases).
2200
2201- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2202 rebalance run, and one after.
2203
2204- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2205 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2206 processing these messages.
2207
fe5b0fdd 2208 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2209
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2210- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2211 objects.
2212
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2213- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2214 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2215 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2216 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2217 at Allianz.
2218
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2219- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2220 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2221
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2222- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2223 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2224
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2225- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2226 caused the server to abort.
2227
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2228- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2229 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2230 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2231
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2232- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2233 by empty spaces would not get included.
2234
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2235- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2236 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2237
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2238- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2239 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2240
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2241- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2242 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2243
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2244- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2245 on the parameter request list.
2246
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2247 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2248
2249- Some spelling fixes.
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2251 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2252
2253- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2254 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2255
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2256- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2257 domain-search option syntax.
2258
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2259 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2260
2261- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2262 hash table was repaired.
2263
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2264- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2265 entering normal state.
2266
2267- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2268 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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2269 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2270
2271- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2272 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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2274- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2275 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2276 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2277 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2278
45d545f0 2279- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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2280 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2281 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2282 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2283 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2284 to their needs.
2285
2286- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2287 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2288 run will attempt balance.
2289
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2290- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2291
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2292 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2293
2294- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2295 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2296 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2297 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2298
98bd7ca0 2299- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2300 was introduced.
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2301
2302- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2303 via OMAPI.
2304
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2305- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2306 the protocol draft.
2307
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2308- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2309 one does not already exist on the system.
2310
b43c87ad 2311- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2312
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2313- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2314 matches RFC 3074.
2315
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2316- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2317 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2318 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2319
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2320- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2321 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2322 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2323
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2324- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2325 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2326 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2327 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2328
2329- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2330 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2331 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2332 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2333
f7fdb216 2334- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2335 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2336 DHCPv6 support.
2337
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2338- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2339 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2340 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2341
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2342- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2343 have been incorporated.
2344
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2345- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2346 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2347 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2348 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2349 that belong to the peer in need.
2350
2351- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2352 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2353
2354- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2355 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2356 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2357
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2358- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2359 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2360
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2361- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2362 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2363 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2364 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2365 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2366
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2367- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2368 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2369 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2370 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2371
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2372- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2373 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2374 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2375 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2376 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2377 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2378 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2379 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2380 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2381
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2382- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2383 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2384
41e45067 2385- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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2386 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2387 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2388 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2389
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2390- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2391 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2392 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2393 hardware and funding the development.
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2395- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2396 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2397 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2398 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2399 via Robin Breathe.
2400
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2401- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2402 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2403 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2404 from Christof Chen.
2405
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2406- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2407 formally supported.
2408
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2409 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2410
2411- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2412 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2413
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2414 Changes since 3.0.5
2415
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2416- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2417 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2418 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2419 they actually received.
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2420
2421- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2422
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2423- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2424 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2425 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2426 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2427
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2428- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2429
d69fb6a8 2430- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2431 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2432
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2433- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2434 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2435 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2436 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2437 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2438 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2439 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2440 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2441
2442- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2443 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2444 'file' field.
02428754 2445
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2446- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2447 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2448
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2449- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2450 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2451 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2452
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2453- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2454 from Chris Wagner.
2455
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2456- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2457 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2458 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2459
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2460- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2461 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2462 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2463 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2464 was set.
2465
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2466- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2467 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2468
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2469- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2470 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2471 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2472 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2473 active ones.
2474
02428754 2475 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2476
901306d5 2477- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2478 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2479 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2480 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2481 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2482
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2483- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2484 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2485
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2486 Changes since 3.0.4
2487
2488- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2489 scopes are actually global has been added.
2490
2491- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2492 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2493 known to be damaging.
2494
2495- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2496 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2497 balancing).
2498
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2499- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2500 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2501 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2502
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2503- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2504 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2505 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2506
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2507- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2508 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2509 more clear now.
2510
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2511- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2512 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2513 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2514 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2515 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2516 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2517
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2518- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2519 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2520
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2521- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2522 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2523 made possible.
2524
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2525- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2526 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2527 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2528
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2529- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2530 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2531
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2532- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2533 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2534 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2535
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2536- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2537 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2538 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2539 value with the later configured value).
2540
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2541- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2542 have been named and documented.
2543
2544- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2545 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2546 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2547 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2548 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2549 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2550 write new output.
2551
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2552 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2553
2554- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2555 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2556
2557 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2558
2559- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2560 mailing list.
2561
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2562 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2563
45d545f0 2564- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2565 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2566
2567- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2568 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2569
2570- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2571 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2572 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2573 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2574
2575- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2576 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2577 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2578 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2579 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2580 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2581 transition (properly).
2582
2583- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2584
2585 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2586
2587- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2588 STDIN after reading one line.
2589
2590- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2591 descriptor it opened twice.
2592
2593- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2594 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2595 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2596
2597 Changes since 3.0.3
2598
2599- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2600 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2601 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2602
2603- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2604 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2605 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2606
2607- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2608 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2609 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2610 leases to allocate.
2611
2612- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2613 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2614 than the entire block of them.
2615
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2616! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2617 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2618 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2619 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2620 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2621 to a patch from infamous42md.
2622
2623! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2624 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2625 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2626 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2627 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2628 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2629
2630- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2631 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2632 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2633
2634- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2635 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2636
2637- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2638 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2639 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2640 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2641 transitional states.
2642
2643- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2644 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2645 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2646
2647- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2648 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2649 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2650
2651- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2652 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2653
2654- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2655 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2656
2657- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2658 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2659 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2660
2661- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2662 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2663
2664- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2665 repaired.
2666
2667- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2668 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2669 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2670 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2671
2672- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2673 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2674 data.
2675
2676- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2677 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2678 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2679 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2680 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2681
2682- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2683 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2684 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2685 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2686 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2687
2688- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2689 has been repaired.
2690
2691- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2692 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2693 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2694 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2695 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2696
2697- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2698 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2699
45d545f0 2700- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2701 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2702 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2703 move to 3.[01].x.
2704
2705- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2706 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2707
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2708 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2709
2710- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2711 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2712
2713- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2714 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2715 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2716 workaround.
2717
2718 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2719
2720- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2721 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2722
2723 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2724
2725- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2726 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2727 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2728
2729- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2730 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2731 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2732
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2733 Changes since 3.0.2
2734
2735- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2736 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2737 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2738
2739- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2740 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2741 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2742 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2743 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2744
2745- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2746 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2747 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2748
2749- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2750 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2751 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2752
2753- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2754 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2755 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2756 Peter Poeml.
2757
2758- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2759 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2760
2761- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2762 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2763 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2764 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2765 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2766 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2767
2768- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2769 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2770 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2771 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2772
2773- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2774 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2775 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2776 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2777
2778- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2779 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2780
2781- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2782 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2783 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2784
2785- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2786 7 bytes, and failover.
2787
2788- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2789 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2790 at Red Hat.
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2791
2792- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2793 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2794 should work better.
2795
2796- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2797 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2798 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2799
2800- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2801 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2802 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2803
2804 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2805
2806- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2807 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2808
2809 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2810
45d545f0 2811- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2812 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2813 overloading. This was repaired.
2814
2815- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2816 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2817 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2818 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2819 three chunks to fit.
2820
2821- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2822 were repaired.
2823
2824- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2825 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2826 leak).
2827
2828 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2829
2830- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2831 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2832
2833 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2834
2835- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2836
2837 Changes since 3.0.1
2838
2839- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2840 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2841 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2842
2843- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2844 name was not provided by the server.
2845
2846- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2847 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2848
2849- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2850 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2851
2852- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2853 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2854
2855- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2856
2857- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2858
2859- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 2860 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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2861 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2862 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2863 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2864
2865- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2866 the configuration be globally scoped.
2867
2868- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2869 Farkas.
2870
2871- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2872 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2873
2874- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2875 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2876
2877- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2878 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2879
2880- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2881 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2882 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2883 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2884
2885- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2886 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2887 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2888 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2889
2890- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2891 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2892 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2893
2894- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2895
2896- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2897 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2898 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2899
2900- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2901 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2902 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2903 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2904 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2905
2906- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2907 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2908
2909- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2910 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2911
2912- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2913 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2914 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2915 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2916
2917- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2918 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2919
2920- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2921 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2922 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2923
2924- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2925 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2926 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2927 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2928 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2929 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2930
2931- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2932 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2933 Infoblox.
2934
2935- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2936
2937- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2938 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2939 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2940 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2941 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2942 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2943 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2944
2945- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2946 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2947 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2948
2949- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2950 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2951 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2952
2953- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2954
2955 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2956
2957- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2958 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2959 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2960 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2961 systems either.
2962
2963- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2964
2965- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2966 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2967 is false.
2968
2969- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2970 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2971
2972- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2973
2974 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2975
2976! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2977 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2978 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2979 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2980 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2981 both finding and solving the problem.
2982
2983! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2984 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2985 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2986 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2987 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2988 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2989 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2990 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2991 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2992 published version of ISC DHCP.
2993
2994- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2995
2996- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2997
2998 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2999
3000- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3001 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3002 Richard Hirst.
3003
3004- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3005 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3006 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3007
3008- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3009
3010- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3011 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3012 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3013 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3014
3015- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3016 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3017
3018- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3019 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3020
3021- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3022
3023 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3024
3025- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3026 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3027
3028- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3029 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3030 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3031
3032- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3033 by name was fixed.
3034
45d545f0 3035- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3036 longer result in error.
3037
3038- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3039
3040- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3041 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3042 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3043
3044- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3045 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3046
3047- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3048 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3049 Blapp.
3050
3051- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3052 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3053 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3054 Martin Blapp.
3055
3056- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3057 expiry times in failover configurations.
3058
3059- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3060 Steve G.
3061
3062- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3063 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3064
3065- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3066 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3067 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3068 now "unknown-144".
3069
3070- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3071 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3072
3073 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3074
3075- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3076
3077- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3078 not be bash.
3079
3080- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3081
3082- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3083 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3084 that errored before will now work properly.
3085
3086- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3087 names was repaired.
3088
3089- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3090 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3091 configuration file.
3092
3093- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3094 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3095
3096- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3097 error rather than a null dereference.
3098
3099 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3100
3101- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3102
3103- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3104
3105- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3106 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3107
3108- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3109
3110- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3111
3112- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3113 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3114 self-corrupting lease databases.
3115
3116- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3117
3118- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3119 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3120
3121- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3122
3123- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3124
3125- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3126 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3127 Ling Gou.
3128
3129- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3130 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3131
3132- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3133 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3134 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3135
3136- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3137 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3138
3139 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3140
3141- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3142 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3143
3144- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3145
3146- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3147 a memory leak.
3148
3149- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3150 script.
3151
3152- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3153
3154- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3155
3156- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3157
3158- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3159
3160- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3161
3162- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3163
3164- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3165
3166- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3167
3168- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3169
3170- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3171
3172- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3173
3174- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3175
3176 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3177
3178- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3179 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3180 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3181
3182 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3183
3184- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3185 to be renewed.
3186
3187- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3188 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3189
3190- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3191 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3192
3193- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3194 that two permit lists matched.
3195
3196- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3197 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3198
3199- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3200
3201- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3202 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3203
3204- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3205
3206- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3207
3208- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3209 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3210 going to update its A record.
3211
3212- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3213 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3214 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3215 DNS server.
3216
3217- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3218
3219- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3220
3221- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3222 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3223 NetBSD project).
3224
3225- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3226 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3227
3228- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3229 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3230
3231- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3232
3233- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3234
3235- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3236 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3237 failover protocol standard.
3238
3239- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3240 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3241 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3242
3243- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3244 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3245 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3246 do so.
3247
3248- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3249
3250 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3251
3252- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3253
3254- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3255 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3256
3257- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3258 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3259
3260- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3261 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3262 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3263
3264- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3265 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3266 network, merge the two pools.
3267
3268- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3269 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3270 fix this bug.
3271
3272 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3273
3274- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3275 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3276
3277- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3278 the same case.
3279
3280- Additional documentation.
3281
3282- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3283 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3284
3285 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3286
3287- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3288- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3289
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3291
3292- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3293 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3294 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3295 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3296 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3297
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3299
3300- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3301 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3302 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3303 wasn't the one that removed it.
3304
3305- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3306 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3307 were not configured.
3308
3309- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3310
3311- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3312 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3313 routing information.
3314
3315- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3316 request being sent.
3317
3318- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3319 done.
3320
3321- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3322 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3323 were pending.
3324
3325- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3326 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3327 problems with failover.
3328
3329- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3330 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3331 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3332
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3334
3335- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3336 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3337
3338- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3339 no object is open, it dumps core.
3340
3341- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3342
3343- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3344
3345- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3346
3347- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3348 a host object attribute with a null value.
3349
3350 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3351
3352- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3353
3354- Fix an obscure core dump.
3355
3356- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3357 when crucial information is left out.
3358
3359- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3360
3361- Documentation updates.
3362
3363 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3364
3365- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3366
3367- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3368 structure wasn't zeroed.
3369
3370- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3371 incorrectly.
3372
3373- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3374 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3375 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3376 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3377 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3378 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3379 restarted.
3380
3381 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3382
3383- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3384 in failover-enabled pools.
3385
3386- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3387 declarations).
3388
3389- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3390 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3391
3392- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3393 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3394
3395- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3396
3397- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3398 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3399
3400- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3401
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3402 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
3403
3404- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3405
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3406 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3407
3408- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3409
3410- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3411
3412- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3413
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3414 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3415
3416- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3417 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3418 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3419
3420- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3421 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3422 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3423 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3424 string.
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3425
3426- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3427
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3428 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3429
3430- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3431 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3432
3433- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3434 malformed packets.
3435
3436- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3437
3438- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3439 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3440 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3441
3442- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3443
3444- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3445
3446- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3447
3448- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3449 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3450
3451- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3452 tcp connections from being played back.
3453
3454- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3455 on exit.
3456
3457- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3458
3459- Add some configurability to the build system.
3460
3461- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3462
3463- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3464 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3465 hadn't been noticed until now.
3466
3467 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3468
3469- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3470 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3471
3472- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3473 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3474 conformant, but also didn't work).
3475
3476- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3477 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3478
3479- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3480 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3481
3482- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3483 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3484
3485- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3486 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3487
3488- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3489 doing failover.
3490
3491- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3492 running on alpha processors.
3493
3494- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3495 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3496
3497- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3498
3499- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3500
3501- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3502 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3503
3504- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3505
3506- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3507 actually named (key names are domain names).
3508
3509- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3510
3511- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3512 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3513
3514- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3515 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3516
3517- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3518 statements.
3519
3520- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3521 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3522
3523- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3524 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3525 operating.
3526
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3527 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3528
3529- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3530 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3531 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3532 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3533
3534- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3535 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3536
3537- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3538
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3539 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3540
3541- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3542 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3543
3544- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3545 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3546 to the chain.
3547
3548- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3549
3550- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3551
3552- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3553
98311e4b 3554- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3555 attribute values in omshell.
3556
98311e4b 3557- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3558
3559- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3560
3561 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3562
3563- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3564 DHCPDECLINE.
3565
3566- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3567
3568- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3569 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3570 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3571
3572- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3573
3574- Documentation fixes.
3575
3576- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3577 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3578
3579- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3580 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3581
3582- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3583
3584- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3585
3586- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3587 case-insensitive.
3588
3589- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3590
98311e4b 3591- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3592 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3593 consistently.
3594
3595- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3596 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3597
3598- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3599
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3600 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3601
3602- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3603 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3604 result of duplicate leases.
3605
3606- Document OMAPI server objects.
3607
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3608 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3609
3610- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3611 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3612
3613- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3614 core dumps.
3615
3616- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3617 Friedrich.
3618
3619- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3620
3621 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3622
3623- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3624 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3625 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3626 billing class code.
3627
3628- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3629 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3630
3631- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3632 trace file.
3633
79ea3de8 3634 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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3636- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3637 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3638 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3639 e.g., Digital Unix.
3640
3641- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3642 when no error had occurred.
3643
3644- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3645 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3646 non-communicating state.
3647
3648- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3649
3650- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3651 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3652 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3653
3654- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3655 when the client lease expired.
3656
3657- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3658 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3659 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3660 in testing.
3661
3662- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3663 the command line, it would fail.
3664
3665- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3666 user impact).
3667
3668- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3669
3670- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3671 they're executable.
3672
3673 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3674
3675- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3676 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3677 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3678 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3679
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3680- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3681 Transmeta.
3682
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3683- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3684 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3685 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3686 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3687
3688- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3689 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3690
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3691 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3692
3693- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3694 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3695
3696- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3697
3698- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3699
3700- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3701
3702- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3703
3704- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3705
3706- Update some parts of the README file.
3707
3708- Support GCC on SCO.
3709
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3711
3712- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3713 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3714
3715- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3716 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3717 unbill the old class.
3718
3719- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3720 process the state transition immediately.
3721
3722- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3723 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3724
3725- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3726
3727- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3728
3729- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3730
3731- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3732
3733- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3734 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3735 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3736
3737- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3738 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3739
3740- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3741 lease file.
3742
3743- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3744
3745- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 3746
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3748
3749- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3750 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3751
3752- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3753
adbef119 3754 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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3755
3756- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3757
adbef119 3758 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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3759
3760- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3761
3762- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3763 pl19.
3764
3765- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3766 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3767 past the regression test.
3768
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3770
3771- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3772 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3773
3774- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3775 DHCPREQUEST.
3776
3777- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3778
3779- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3780
3781- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3782
adbef119 3783 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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3785- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3786 (Damien Neil)
3787
3788- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3789 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3790
3791- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3792 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3793 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3794
3795- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3796 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3797 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3798 message.
3799
3800- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3801 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3802 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3803
98311e4b 3804- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3805 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3806 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3807 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3808 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3809 this way will work.
3810
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3811- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3812
3813- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3814 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3815 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3816 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3817
3818 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3819
3820 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3821
3822- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3823 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3824 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3825
3826- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3827 Hermann Lauer.
3828
3829- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3830 messages.
3831
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3832- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3833 it contained quoted strings.
3834
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3835 ** there was no pl17 **
3836
adbef119 3837 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
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3839- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3840 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3841 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3842 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3843 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3844 tracking down memory leaks.
3845
3846- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3847 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3848 Solaris.
3849
3850- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3851 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3852 corruption and core dumps.
3853
3854- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3855 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3856
3857- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3858
3859- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3860 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3861
3862- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3863 name and version to standard output.
3864
3865- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3866
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3867- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3868 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3869
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3870- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3871
3872- Lots of documentation updates.
3873
3874- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3875 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3876
3877- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3878
3879- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3880 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3881
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3883
3884- Some documentation tweaks.
3885
3886- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3887
3888- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3889
3890- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3891 agent options into them.
3892
3893- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3894
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3895- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3896 options.
3897
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3899
3900- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3901 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3902 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3903 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3904 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3905
3906- Fix up documentation.
3907
3908- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3909 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3910
3911- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3912
3913- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3914
3915- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3916 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3917 practical use otherwise.
3918
3919- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3920 for debugging.
3921
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3923
3924- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3925 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3926 dump on some systems.
3927
3928- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3929 option.
3930
3931- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3932 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3933
3934- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3935 that were not printing enough information.
3936
3937- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3938 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3939
3940- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3941 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3942 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3943 were answering.
3944
3945- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3946 the transition.
9a111ee8 3947
2f2e7960 3948
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3950
3951- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3952
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3953 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3954
3955- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3956 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3957 representation from working correctly.
3958
3959- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3960 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3961 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3962 could spin.
3963
3964- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3965 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3966
3967- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3968 interface name on the command line.
3969
3970- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3971 client state.
3972
3973- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3974 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3975 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3976 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3977 added by Ted Lemon.
3978
3979- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3980 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3981
3982- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3983 end option.
3984
3985- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3986 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3987 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3988
3989- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3990 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3991 face of a null hardware address on input.
3992
3993- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3994 specified unqualified.
3995
3996- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3997 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3998
3999- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4000 RFC.
4001
4002- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4003
4004- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4005
4006- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4007 it works.
4008
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4009 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4010
4011- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4012 to CVS.
4013
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4014 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4015
4016- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4017
4018- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4019 in patchlevel 9.
4020
4021- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4022 options at renewal time.
4023
4024- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4025 configuration language.
4026
4027- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4028
4029- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4030 done when no client hostname was received.
4031
4032- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4033
4034- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4035 the DHCP option space.
4036
4037- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4038
4039- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4040 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4041
4042- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4043 silently dropped.
4044
4045- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4046 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4047
4048- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4049 will be correctly updated.
4050
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4051 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4052
4053- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4054 bounds-checking.
4055
4056 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4057
4058- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4059
3922772a 4060 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 6
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4062- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4063 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4064 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4065
4066- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4067 option.
4068
4069- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4070 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4071 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4072 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4073 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4074 meaningfully.
4075
4076- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4077 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4078 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4079
4080- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4081 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4082 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4083 this one down!
4084
4085- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4086 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4087 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4088 down and fixing this problem.
4089
4090 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4091
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4092- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4093 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4094
4095- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4096 environment.
4097
4098- Fix suffix operator.
4099
4100- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4101
4102- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4103 connection code.
4104
4105- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4106
4107- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4108
4109- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4110 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4111
4112- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4113
4114- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4115
4116- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4117 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4118
4119- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4120 spawn with.
4121
4122- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4123 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4124
4125- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4126 for OMAPI.
4127
4128- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4129 can install in host declarations.
4130
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4131 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4132
4133- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4134 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4135 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4136 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4137 comments)!
4138
4139- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4140
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4141- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4142 request for help on this with patches!
4143
4144- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4145 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4146 lost, they never reconnect.
4147
4148- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4149 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4150
4151- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4152 dump.
4153
4154- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4155 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4156 catching this one.
4157
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4158 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4159
4160- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4161 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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4162 lease renewal time.
4163
4164- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4165 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4166 declared without a key.
4167
4168- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4169
4170- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4171 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4172
4173- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4174 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4175 determine the maximum size of the response.
4176
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4177 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4178
359b023e
TL
4179- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4180 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4181
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4182- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4183 RENEWING client.
4184
4185- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4186
4187- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4188 using memcmp().
4189
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4190 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4191
4192- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4193 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4194 pointing this out.
4195
4196- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4197 exit.
4198
4199- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4200
4201- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4202 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.