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5ddbe8e4 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
d618ba48 2 Version 4.4.0-pre-alpha
33dca28a 3 29 March 2016
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5ddbe8e4 5 Release Notes
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5ddbe8e4 7 NEW FEATURES
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5ade3c84 9The major "theme" for ISC DHCP 4.3.x was to update the support for
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10DHCPv6 to include several of the features that have been available
11for DHCPv4. These include:
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13- Support the use of classes
14
15- Support for on_commit, on_expiry and on_release statements
16
4809ef5c 17- Better logging of address assignments
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19- Support for using DHCPv6 relay options in expressions
20
cb0d7e7c 21This release also adds support for the standard DDNS as described in the
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22current RFCs as well as enhancing support for dynamically adding and removing
23subclasses via OMAPI.
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25There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
26release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 28- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
3a16098f 29
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
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57- Insert the raw data from a fully encapsualted option into the option cache.
58 This allows "exists" to check for the option if any sub options exist. It
59 also adds the raw data to the environment variables supplied to the client
60 script.
61 [ISC-Bugs #39863]
62
d618ba48 63 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
0b0a1399 64
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65- Tidy up several small tickets.
66 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
67 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
68 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
69 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
70 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
71 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
72 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
73 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
74 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
75 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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77- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
78 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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80- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
81 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
82 Popelka at Red Hat.
83 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
09dccd03 84
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85- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
86 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
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88- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
89 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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91- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
92 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
93 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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95- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
96 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
97 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
98 option in the list.
99 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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101- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
102 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
103 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
104 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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106- Remove unused RCSID tags.
107 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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109- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
110 for MRT limit it to MRD.
111 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
112 [ISC-Bugs #21238
3abc5708 113
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114- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
115 when a server, relay or client are killed.
116 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
117 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
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119- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
120 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
121 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
122 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
123 given the "-1" argument.
124 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
125 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
126 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
127 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
128 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
129 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
130 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
131 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
132 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
21f3982a 133
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134- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
135 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
136 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
137 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
138 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
139 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
140 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
141 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
142 to syslog.
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144- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
145 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
146 number in syslog messages.
147 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
148 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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150- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
151 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
152 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
153 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
154 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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156- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
157 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
158 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
159 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
160 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
161 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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163- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
164 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
165 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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167- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
168 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
169 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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171- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
172 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
173 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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175- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
176 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
177 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
178 in a pool are used.
179 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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181- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
182 on an error condition.
183 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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185- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
186 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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188- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
189 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
190 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
646acb59 191
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192- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
193 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
194 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
195 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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197- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
198 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
ce29e695 199
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200- Tidy up receive packet processing.
201 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
202 a possible patch.
203 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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205- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
206 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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208- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
209 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
210 and hmac-sha512
211 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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213- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
214 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 215 patch.
d618ba48 216 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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218- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
219 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
220 provided the patch.
221 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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223- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
224 after the configuration file has been processed.
225 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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227- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
228 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
229 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
230 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
231 compilers that was introduced by #36712
a3471269 232
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233- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
234 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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236- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
237 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
238 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
239 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
240 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
241 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
242 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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244- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
245 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
246 bug report and patch.
247 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
248 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
249 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
250 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
251 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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253- Addressed checksum issues:
254 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
255 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
256 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
257 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
258 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
259 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
260 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
261 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
262 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
263 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
264 than being dropped.
265 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
266 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
36c4a037 267
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268- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
269 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
270 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
271 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
272 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
273 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
274 inbound request to a known subnet.
275 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
276 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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278- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
279 BOOTP request handling.
280 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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282- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
283 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
284 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
285 the patch upon which the fix is based.
286 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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288- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
289 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
290 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
291 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
292 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
293 modified to send requests more often.
294 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
295 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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297- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
298 name from the following in order of preference:
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300 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
301 2. Host name option if provided by the client
302 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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304 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
305 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
306 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
307 and no other value is available.
308 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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310- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
311 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
312 corrected.
313 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
314 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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316- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
317 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
318 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
319 components.
320 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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322- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
323 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
324 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
325 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
326 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
327 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
328 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
329 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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331- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
332 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
333 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
334 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
335 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
336 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
337 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
338 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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340- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
341 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
342 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
343 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
344 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
345 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
346 bug and supplying a patch.
347 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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349- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
350 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
351 leae expiration code.
352 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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354- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
355 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
356 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
357 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
358 files.
359 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
360 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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362- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
363 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
364 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
365 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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367- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
368 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
369 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
370 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
371 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
372 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
373 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
374 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
375 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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377- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
378 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
379 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
380 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
381 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
382 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
383 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
384 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
385 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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387- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
388 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
389 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
390 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
391 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
392 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
393 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
394 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
395 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
396 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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398- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
399 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
400 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
401 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
402 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
403 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
404 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
405 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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407- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
408 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
409 bug report and patch.
410 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
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412- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
413 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
414 code consistent across versions.
415 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
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417- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
418 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
419 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
420 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
421 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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422 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
423 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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425- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
426 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
427 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
428 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
429 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
430 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
431 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
432 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
433 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
434 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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436 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 437 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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439- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
440 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
441 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
442 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 443 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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445- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
446 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
447 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
448 a proper length for it.
449 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
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451- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
452 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
453 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
454 reasonable to remove it.
455 [ISC-Buts #39019]
456
90a062fb 457- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
cacce092 458 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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459 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
460 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
461
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462- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
463 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
464 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
465 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
466 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
467
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468- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
469 table 3.
470 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
471
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472- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
473 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
474 the issue and suggesting the patch.
475 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
476
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477- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
478 of as a token.
479 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
480
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481- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
482 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
483 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
484 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
485 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
486 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
487 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
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cca6a648 489- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
490 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
491 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
492 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
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494- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
495 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
496 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
497
cca6a648 498- Corrected a crash in dhclient that occurs during lease renewal if the
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499 client is performing its own DNS updates. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
500 for the bug report.
cca6a648 501 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
502
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503- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
504 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
505 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
506 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
507 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 508 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 509 reporting the issue.
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510 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
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512- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
513 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
514 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
515 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
516 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
517 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
518 itself.
519 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
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521- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
522 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
523 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
524 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
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526- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
527 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
528 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
529 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
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532 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
533 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
534 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
535 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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538 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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539 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
540 issue.
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542
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544 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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546 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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548 contributions (alphabetically):
549 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 550 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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551 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
552 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 553 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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554 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
555 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
556 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
557 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
558 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
559 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
560 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
561 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
562 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
563 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
564 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
565 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
566 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
567 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
568
af25ded3 569- Handle an out of memory condition in the client a bit better.
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571 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 572 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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574- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
575 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
576 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
577 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
578 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
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4e1bf548 581 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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583 the issue.
4e1bf548 584 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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586- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
587 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
588 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
589 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
590 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
591 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
592 tests.
593 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
594 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
595 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
596 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
597 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
598 use the command "make -k check".
599 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
600
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601- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
602 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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604- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
605 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
606 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
607 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
608 keep the previous behavior.
609 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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611- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
612 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
613 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
614 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
615 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
616 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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618- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
619 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
620 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
621 address them.
622 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
623 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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625- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
626 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
627 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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629- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
630 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
631 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
632 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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634- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
635 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
636 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
637 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
638 not show a value.
639 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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641- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
642 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
643 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
644 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
645 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
646 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
647 he provided.
648 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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650- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
651 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
652 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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654- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
655 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
656 the issue and supplying the patches.
657 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
658 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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660- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
661 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
662 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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664- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
665 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
666 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
667 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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670 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
671 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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673! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
674 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
675 patch.
676 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
677 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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679- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
680 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
681 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
682 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
683 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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685- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
686 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
687 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
688 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
689 the software to fail.
690 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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692- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
693 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
694 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
695 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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697- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
698 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
699 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
700 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
701 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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703- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
704 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
705 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
706 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
707 update as an "invalid state transition".
708 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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710- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
711 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
712 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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714- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
715 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
716 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
717 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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719- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
720 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
721 modified to work as infinite.
722 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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724- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
725 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
726 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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728- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
729 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
730 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
731 option as per RFC 6939.
732 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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734- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
735 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
736 for cross compilation.
737 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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739- Add more option definitions.
740 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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742- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
743 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
744 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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746- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
747 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
748 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
749 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
750 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
751 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
752 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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754- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
755 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
756 feature.
757 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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759- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
760 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
761 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
762 relay.
763 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
764 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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766- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
767 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
768 Section 22.4.
769 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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771- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
772 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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774- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
775 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
776 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
777 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
778 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
779 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
780 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
781 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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783- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
784 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
785 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
786 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
787 submitting a patch
788 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
789 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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791- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
792 decoding a packet.
793 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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795- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
796 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
797 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
798 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
799 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
800 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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803 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
804 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
805 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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807- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
808 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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810- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
811 of circuit id length.
812 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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814- Add support for including an encapsulated option in a response
815 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
816 returned in responses.
817 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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820 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
821 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
822 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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825 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
826 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but ignored retained
827 the client hostname from the original client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek,
828 Jan Evangelista Purkyne University for reporting the issue.
829 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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831- In the LDAP code and schema add some missing '6' characters to use
832 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
833 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
834 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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836- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
837 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
838 a cut and paste error.
839 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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841- Modify the DDNS code to clean up the PTR record even if there
842 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
843 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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845- Added global configuration parameter, abandon-lease-time, which determines
846 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
847 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
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849 David Zych at University of Illinois for reporting the issue and working
850 with us to produce a viable solution.
d618ba48 851 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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853- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
854 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
855 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
856 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
857 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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859- Updates to contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to make it more friendly.
860 They are looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
861 the "processing complete" output when creating machine readable
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862 output. Thanks to Cameron Paine (cbp at null dot net) for the
863 patch.
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867 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
868 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
869 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
870 verify the problem and fix.
871 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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873- Change dmalloc to use a size_t as the length argument to bring it
874 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
875 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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877- If the failover socket can't be bound close it, otherwise if the
878 user configures an incorrect address in the failover stanza the
879 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
880 it runs out.
881 [ISC-Bugs #42452]
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883- Add DHCPv4-mode, dhcrelay command line options, "-iu" and "-id", that
884 allow interfaces to be upstream or downstream respectively. Upstream
885 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP replies, while downstream
886 interfaces will accept and forward only BOOTP requests.
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887 [ISC-Bugs #41547]
888
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889- Clean up some memory references in the vendor-class construct.
890 [ISC-Bugs #42984]
891
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894- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
895 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
896 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
897 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
898 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
899 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 900 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 901 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 902 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 903 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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905- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
906 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
907 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
908
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909- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
910 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
911 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
912 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 913 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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915- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
916 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
917 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
918 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
919 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
920 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
921
a7341359 922- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
4809ef5c 923 [ISC-Bugs #27912]
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925- Add support for using classes with v6.
926 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
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929 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
930 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
931 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
932 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
933 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
934 that work with some modifications.
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938 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
939 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
940 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
941 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
942 not recommended.
64fb661c 943 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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946 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
947 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
948 This is "Server starting service.".
949 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
950 its failover peer are in the normal state.
951 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
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954- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
955 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
956 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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957 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
958 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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960 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
961
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80778e94 963 to find a reasonable nameserver via a DNS resolver. This restores
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965 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
966 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
967 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
968 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
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971 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
972 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
973 one instance of their respective address types.
974 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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976- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
977 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
978 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
979 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 980 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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982 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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984- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
985 and take host declarations into account.
986 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
987 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
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990 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
991 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
992 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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994- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
995 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
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1000- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
1001 is no longer truncated to one octet.
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01a44a77 1003- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
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1005- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
1006 reflect support for prefix delegation.
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01a44a77 1008- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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1011 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
1012 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
1013 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
1014 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
1015 entry for each lease.
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1020 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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1022- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
1023 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1024 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1025 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
a24b9f23 1026
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1028 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1029 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1030 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1031 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1032 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1033 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1034 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1035 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
c5bc8b1a 1036
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1037- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
1038 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
cc17cbc3 1039
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1040! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
1041 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1042 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1043 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1044
01a44a77 1045- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1046
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1047- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1048 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1049 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1050 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1051 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1052
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1053- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1054 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1055 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1056 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1057 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1058
01a44a77 1059- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1060
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1061- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1062 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1063
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1064- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1065 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1066 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1067 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1068 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1069 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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1071- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1072 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1073
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1074 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1075 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1076
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1077 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1078 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1079
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1080 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1081 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1082
01a44a77 1083- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1084
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1085- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1086 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1087 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1088 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1089 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1090 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1091
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1092- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1093 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1094 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1095 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1096 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1097 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
e563ec2e 1098
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1099- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1100 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1101 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1102
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1103- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1104 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1105 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1106 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1107
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1108- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1109 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1110
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1111- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1112 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1113 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1114
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1115- Minor code fixes
1116 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1117 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1118 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1119 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1120 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1121 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1122 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1123 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
1124 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1125 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1126 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1127 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1128
01a44a77 1129- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1130
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1131- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1132 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1133
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1134- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1135 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1136
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1137- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1138 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1139
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1140- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1141 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1142 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1143
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1144- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1145 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1146
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1147- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1148 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1149 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
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1151- Fixes to lease input and output.
1152 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1153 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1154 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1155 characters.
1156 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1157 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1158
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1159- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1160 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1161 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1162 at Red Hat.
1163 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1164 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1165 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1166 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
b047bd38 1167
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1168- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1169 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1170 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1171 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1172
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1173! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1174 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
1175 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
1176 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
dd9237c3 1177
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1178- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1179 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1180 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1181
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1182- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1183 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1184 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1185 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1186 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1187
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1188- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1189 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1190 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1191 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1192 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1193
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1194! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1195 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1196 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1197 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1198 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1199 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
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1201- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1202 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1203 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1204
adb95d23 1205- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1206 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1207 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1208
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1209- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1210 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1211 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1212
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1213- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1214 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1215 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1216 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1217 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1218
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1219- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1220 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1221 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1222 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1223
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1224! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1225 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1226 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1227 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1228 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1229 and reset its timeout value.
1230 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1232- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1233 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1234 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1235 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
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1238 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1239 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
25f664a6 1240
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1241- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1242 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1243 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1244 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
d424157d 1245
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1246- Some fixes for LDAP
1247 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1248 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1249 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
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1251- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1252 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1254! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1255 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1256 interfaces with the OS.
1257 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1258 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1260- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1261 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1263- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1264 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1265 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1266 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1267 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1268 in v6 mode at configure time.
1269 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1271- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1272 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1273 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1274 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1276- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1277 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1278 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1279 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1280 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1282- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1283 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1284 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1285 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1286 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1288- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1289 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1290 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1291 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1292 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1294- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1295 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1296 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1298- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1299 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1300 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1301 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1302 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1304- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1305 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1306 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1307
1308- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1309 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1310 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1312- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1313 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1314 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1315 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1316 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1317 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
9a111ee8 1318
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1319- Documentation fixes
1320 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1321 responses to the all-ones address.
1322 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1323 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1324
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1325- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1326 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1327 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1328 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1329
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1330- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1331 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1332
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1333- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1334 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1335 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1336
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1337- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1338 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1339 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1340 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1341 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1342 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1343 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1344 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1345 enable this except for testing purposes.
1346 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1347 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1348
c616de4f 1349- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1350 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1352- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1353
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1354- Client Script fixes
1355 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1356 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1357 the domain search address is link local.
1358 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1359 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1360 being changed.
1361
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1362- Documentation cleanup
1363 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1364
9a111ee8 1365- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1366 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1367
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1368- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1369 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1370 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1371 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1372
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1373- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1374 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1375 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1376
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1377- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1378 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1379
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1380- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1381 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1382 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1383 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1384 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1385 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1386
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1387- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1388 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1389 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1390 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1391 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1392 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1393 in site.h then server will be terminated
1394 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1395
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1396! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1397 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1398 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1399 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1400 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1401 CVE-2011-2748
1402 CVE-2011-2749
1403
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1404- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1405 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1406 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1407 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1408
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1409- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1410 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1411
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1412- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1413 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1414
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1415- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1416 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1417
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1418! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1419 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1420 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1421 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1422 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1423 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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1425! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1426 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1427 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1428 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1429 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1430 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1431 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1432 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1433 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1434 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1435 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1436 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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1438- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1439 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1440 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1441 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
57fbc772 1442
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1443- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1444 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1445 from the DNS client code.
1446 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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1448- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1449 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
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1451- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1452 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1453 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1454 some issues we found in the socket code.
1455 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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1457- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1458 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1459 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1460 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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1462- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1463 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1464
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1465- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1466 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1467 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1468 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1469 weren't removed from the DNS.
1470 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
6aaaf6a4 1471
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1472- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1473 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1474 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1475 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
4e0997c6 1476
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1477- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1478 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1479 dynamic bootp clients.
1480 [ISC-bugs #28574]
ad59838e 1481
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1482- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1483 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1484 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1485 handing it out.
1486 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1487 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1488 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1489 for different IAs.
1490 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1491 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1492
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1493- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1494 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1495 an int as a boolean).
1496 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1497
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1498- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1499 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1500 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1501 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1502 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1503 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1504 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1505 may be removed in the future.
1506 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1507 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1508
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1509- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1510 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1511 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1512 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1513
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1514- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1515 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1516 report and the first version of the patch.
1517 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1518
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1519- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1520 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1521 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1522 for reporting this issue.
1523 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1524
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1525- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1526 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1527 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1528 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1529 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1530 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1531 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1532 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1533 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1534 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1535
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1536! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1537 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1538 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1539 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1540 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1541 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1542 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1543 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1544 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1545 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1546 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1547 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1548
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1549! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1550 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1551 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1552 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1553 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1554 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1555
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1556! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1557 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1558 this issue.
1559 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1560 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1561
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1562- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1563 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1564 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1565 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1566 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1567 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1568
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1569! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1570 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1571 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1572 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1573 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1574 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 1575
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1576- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1577 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1578
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1579- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1580 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1581 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1582 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1583 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1584 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1585
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1586- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1587 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1588 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1589 freed in other cases.
1590 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1591
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1592- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1593 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1594 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1595 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1596 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1597 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1598 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1599 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1600
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1601- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1602 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1603 and patches.
1604 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1605
9a111ee8 1606- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1607 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1608
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1609- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1610 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1611 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1612
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1613- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1614 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1615 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1616 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1617 variables.
1618 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1619
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1620- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1621 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1622 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1623 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1624 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1625 enabling it.
1626 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1627
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1628- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1629 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1630
adb95d23 1631- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1632 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1633 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1634 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1635 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1636
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1637- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1638 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1639 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1640 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1641 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1642
01a44a77
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1643- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1644 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1645
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1646- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1647 and comment out a currently unused test.
1648 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1649
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1650- Address static analysis warnings.
1651 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1652
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1653- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1654 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1655
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1656- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1657 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1658
01a44a77
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1659- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1660 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1661
01a44a77
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1662- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1663 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1664 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1665
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1666- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1667 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1668 for the patch.
1669 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1670
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1671- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1672 objects.
1673 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1674
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1675- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1676 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1677 to work more consistently.
1678 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1679
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1680- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1681 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1682 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1683
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1684- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1685 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1686
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1687- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1688 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1689 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1690 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1691 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1692
01a44a77
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1693- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1694 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1695
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1696- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1697 to the clients.
1698 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1699
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1700- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1701 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1702
7aa153b8 1703
adbef119
DH
1704 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1705
d340bc24
DH
1706- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1707 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1708 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1709
0829d595
DH
1710- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1711 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1712 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1713
8a3c1e33
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1714- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1715 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1716
a41d7a25
PS
1717- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1718
9e3eb22a
DH
1719- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1720 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1721 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1722 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1723 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1724 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1725
33ea4622
DH
1726- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1727 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1728 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1729 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1730 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1731 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1732 FQDN options by default).
1733
5a671e87
DH
1734- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1735 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1736 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1737 determined lease time) are omitted.
1738
adb95d23 1739- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1740 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1741 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
c900c5b2
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1742
1743- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1744 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1745 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1746
59112e84
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1747 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1748
62f6843d
MA
1749- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1750
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1751- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1752
47e6eb82
DH
1753- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1754 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1755 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1756 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1757 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1758
159c89d7
EH
1759- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1760
1aa0fe5e
DH
1761- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1762 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1763 had been deleted from configuration.
1764
cd51403d
SR
1765- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1766 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1767 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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1768 were being ignored.
1769
64e1823d
DH
1770- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1771
26e59ee9
DH
1772- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1773 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1774 Nordahl.
1775
70ea9345
PS
1776- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1777 dhcpv6 disabled.
1778
8d7dca58 1779- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1780 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1781
f4534b17
DH
1782- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1783 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1784
f9453d21
DH
1785- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1786 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1787 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1788
1789- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1790 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1791 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1792 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1793 fewer system calls.
1794
a3dcc0b1
DH
1795- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1796 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1797 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1798 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1799 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1800 Christof Chen.
1801
95fd7038
DH
1802- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1803 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1804 and in normal state.
1805
1806- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1807 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1808
8a3c1e33
PS
1809- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1810
1811- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1812 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1813 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1814
dedde1ba
DH
1815- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1816 rather than restarting the listener.
1817
a57df74a
DH
1818- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1819 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1820
1821- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1822 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1823 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1824
350576c5
DH
1825- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1826 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1827 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1828 timeouts).
1829
792156a9
DH
1830- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1831 in failover state records.
1832
8a4e543b
DH
1833! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1834 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1835 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1836 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1837
a1308b64
DH
1838- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1839 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1840
1b12d999
DH
1841- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1842 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1843 last option definition is used.
1844
d453265f
PS
1845- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1846 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1847 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1848
3e29af1e
PS
1849- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1850 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1851
b8d45c67
DH
1852- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1853 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1854 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1855 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1856 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1857 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1858
583c1c16
DH
1859- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1860 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1861 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1862 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1863
e4e3a2ab
DH
1864! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1865 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1866
875e99dc
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1867- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1868 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1869
2267da84
DH
1870- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1871 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1872 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1873 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1874 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1875 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
2267da84
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1876 configuration.
1877
cd3f0b9b
DH
1878- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1879 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1880
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SR
1881- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1882 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1883 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1884 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1885
95bba8b6
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1886- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1887 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1888 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 1889 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 1890
adbef119 1891 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
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1892
1893- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1894 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1895
a4ffedd1
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1896 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1897
1898- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1899 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1900 "abandoned".
1901
6ff3b26d
FD
1902- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1903
1387545f
DH
1904- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1905 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1906
1907- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1908 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1909
1910- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1911 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1912
399d3dbe
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1913- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1914
fbcee149
DH
1915- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1916 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1917 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1918 in future releases.
1919
f1672d89
DH
1920- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1921 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1922
236d3a99
DH
1923- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1924 'dhclient -6' support.
1925
efa5e6b9
DH
1926- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1927 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1928 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1929 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1930
7d6180be 1931 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
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1932
1933- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1934
51e7687f
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1935- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1936
20210a7b
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1937- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1938 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1939 only the latter. Fixed.
1940
535485df
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1941- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1942
8fbb55ff
DH
1943- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1944 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1945
61220a00
EH
1946- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1947
c40e954c
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1948- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1949
63971a83
DH
1950- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1951 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1952 --enable-early-chroot.
1953
66cebfcb
DH
1954- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1955 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1956
f8cbf390
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1957- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1958 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1959 parameter.
1960
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1961- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1962 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1963
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1964- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1965 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1966
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1967- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1968
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1969- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1970
8dea7ba7
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1971- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1972
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1973- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1974
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1975- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1976 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1977 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1978
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1979- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1980 support.
1981
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1982- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1983 repaired.
1984
80097764
FD
1985- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1986
ffbaa880
FD
1987- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1988
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1989- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1990 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1991
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1992- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1993 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1994
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1995- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1996 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1997
1998- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1999 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
2000 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
2001 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
2002 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
2003 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
2004 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
2005 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
2006 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
2007 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
2008 shared-network.
2009
2010- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
2011 configured option values.
2012
2013- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
2014 support class statements.
2015
adb95d23 2016- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
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2017 selection were repaired.
2018
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2019- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2020 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2021 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2022 by the OS.
2023
2024- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2025 address.
2026
2027- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2028 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2029
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2030- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2031
2032- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2033
2034- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2035 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2036
01a54c17 2037 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2038
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2039- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2040
4cafb815 2041- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2042 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2043
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2044- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2045 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2046 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2047
9a111ee8 2048- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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2049 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2050
aabfa4de
FD
2051- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2052
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2053- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2054 reserved IDs avoided).
2055
b51c785f
FD
2056- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2057
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FD
2058- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2059 carries a rapid-commit option.
2060
96b620e5
FD
2061- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2062 an empty active lease.
2063
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FD
2064- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2065
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2066- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2067 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2068 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2069 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2070
adb95d23 2071- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2072
2073- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2074 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2075 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2076 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2077 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2078 Christof Chen.
2079
2080 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2081
2082- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2083
2084- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2085 config file but -6 is not specified.
2086
2087- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2088
2089- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2090 be more helpful.
2091
2092- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2093 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2094 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2095
2096- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2097 was repaired.
2098
2099- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2100 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2101 been repaired.
2102
2103- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2104 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2105 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2106
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2107- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2108 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2109
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2110- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2111 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2112 IPv4 address.
2113
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2114- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2115 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2116 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2117 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2118 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2119
2120- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2121 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2122 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2123
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2124- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2125
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2126- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2127
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2128- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2129 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2130 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2131 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
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2132 unnecessary logging.
2133
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2134- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2135 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2136
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2137- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2138 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2139 is incompatible is printed.
2140
2141- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2142 a previously undefined option code.
2143
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2144- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2145 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2146
9a111ee8 2147- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
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FD
2148 than the year 2000.
2149
e2cfde76
FD
2150- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2151
cabdb9b1
FD
2152- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2153
5d89d60f
FD
2154- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2155
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DH
2156 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2157
2158- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2159 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2160 configuration.
76db44f9 2161
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2162- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2163 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2164
9a111ee8 2165- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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2166 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2167 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2168
9a111ee8
TM
2169- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2170 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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2171 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2172 a requested address.
2173
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2174- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2175 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2176 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2177 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2178
2179- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2180 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2181 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2182 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2183
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DH
2184- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2185 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2186 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2187
c0216cb7
DH
2188- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2189 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2190
1ac57173
FD
2191- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2192
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2193- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2194 codes through some conditions.
2195
c54db708
FD
2196- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2197 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2198
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DH
2199- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2200 seemingly random values.
2201
821f2dda
DH
2202- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2203
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2204- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2205 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2206 one ever has.
2207
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2208- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2209 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
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2210 to a REQUEST.
2211
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2212- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2213 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2214 level.
2215
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2216 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2217
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2218- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2219
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2220- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2221 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2222 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2223 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2224 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2225
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2226- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2227 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2228 new address.
2229
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2230 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2231
75135a3f 2232- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2233 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
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EH
2234 simultaneously on a single interface.
2235
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2236- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2237 of service under unusual server configurations
2238
2239- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2240
9a111ee8 2241- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2242 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2243
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2244- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2245 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2246 on every pool rebalance run.
2247
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2248- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2249 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2250
5279b8f3
DH
2251- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2252 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2253
ab3a540f 2254 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2255
9a111ee8 2256- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2257 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2258
fa9b593d
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2259- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2260 point out the problem.
2261
9a111ee8 2262- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
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2263 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2264 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2265
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2266- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2267 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2268
eaf7eb17
DH
2269- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2270 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2271 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2272
109e00db
DH
2273- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2274
9a111ee8 2275- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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2276 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2277
8eab95f2
DH
2278- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2279 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2280 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2281 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2282
07b9a351
DH
2283- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2284
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DH
2285- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2286 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2287 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2288 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2289 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2290
2394b26b
DH
2291- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2292
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2293 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2294
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2295- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2296 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2297
763cba6b 2298- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2299
237f8d3a 2300- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2301 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
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2302 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2303
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2304- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2305
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2306- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2307 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2308
8dfd5744
DH
2309- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2310 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2311 loaded from persistent storage.
2312
45d545f0 2313- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2314 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2315 necessary.
2316
9a111ee8
TM
2317- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2318 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2319 rapid-commit option.
2320
845e9677
DH
2321- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2322 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2323
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SK
2324 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2325
71765b58
SK
2326- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2327 and fix.
2328
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2329- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2330
bda33169
SK
2331- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2332
9b21e73e
SK
2333- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2334 for when loading configuration.
2335
8da06bb1
DH
2336- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2337 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2338 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2339
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DH
2340- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2341 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2342 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2343 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2344
76c944da
SK
2345- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2346
f796f70a
DH
2347- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2348 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2349
c11f349d
EH
2350- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2351
af5fa176
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2352- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2353
2354- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2355 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2356
a546f2a7
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2357- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2358 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2359
b55d0d5f
EH
2360- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2361
26be82af
DH
2362- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2363 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2364
98bd7ca0
DH
2365 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2366
d9b43370
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2367- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2368
8c1752d2
DH
2369- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2370 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2371
98bd7ca0
DH
2372- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2373
a512d11b
DH
2374- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2375 initialized.
2376
2377- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2378
2379- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
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2380 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2381
2382- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2383
4ba58919
DH
2384- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2385
2386- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2387 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2388
2389- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2390
8ea19a71 2391- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2392 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
2393
2394- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2395 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2396
2cf8d0bd
DH
2397- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2398
2399- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2400
fe5b0fdd
DH
2401- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2402
98bd7ca0
DH
2403 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2404
2405- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2406 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2407 no support currently for both.
2408
2409- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2410 IAADDR option.
2411
2412- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2413 options.
2414
2415- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2416
2417- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2418 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2419
2420- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2421 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2422 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2423
2424- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2425 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2426
2427- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2428 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2429 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2430 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2431 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2432 differently, they both use the same code here).
2433
2434- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2435 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2436 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2437
2438- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2439
2440- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2441 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2442 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2443 it should not intercept.
2444
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DH
2445 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2446
2447- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2448 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2449 between primary and secondary.
2450
2451- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2452 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2453 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2454
aa3e348e
DH
2455- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2456
e9c59645
DH
2457- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2458 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2459 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2460 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2461 or REQUEST messages.
2462
2463- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2464 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2465
c104546d
DH
2466- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2467
b9d0cc05
DH
2468 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2469
adb95d23 2470- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
DH
2471 failover protected subnets was removed.
2472
a512cc3a
DH
2473 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2474
2475- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2476 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2477 odd number of leases).
2478
2479- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2480 rebalance run, and one after.
2481
2482- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2483 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2484 processing these messages.
2485
fe5b0fdd 2486 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2487
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2488- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2489 objects.
2490
1ba87b37
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2491- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2492 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2493 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2494 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2495 at Allianz.
2496
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2497- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2498 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2499
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2500- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2501 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2502
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2503- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2504 caused the server to abort.
2505
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2506- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2507 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2508 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2509
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2510- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2511 by empty spaces would not get included.
2512
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2513- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2514 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2515
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2516- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2517 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2518
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2519- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2520 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2521
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2522- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2523 on the parameter request list.
2524
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2525 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2526
2527- Some spelling fixes.
98311e4b 2528
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2529 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2530
2531- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2532 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2533
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2534- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2535 domain-search option syntax.
2536
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2537 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2538
2539- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2540 hash table was repaired.
2541
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2542- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2543 entering normal state.
2544
2545- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2546 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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2547 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2548
2549- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2550 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2551
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2552- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2553 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2554 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2555 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2556
45d545f0 2557- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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2558 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2559 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2560 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2561 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2562 to their needs.
2563
2564- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2565 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2566 run will attempt balance.
2567
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2568- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2569
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2570 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2571
2572- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2573 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2574 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2575 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2576
98bd7ca0 2577- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2578 was introduced.
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2579
2580- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2581 via OMAPI.
2582
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2583- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2584 the protocol draft.
2585
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2586- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2587 one does not already exist on the system.
2588
b43c87ad 2589- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2590
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2591- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2592 matches RFC 3074.
2593
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2594- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2595 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2596 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2597
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2598- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2599 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2600 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2601
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2602- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2603 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2604 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2605 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2606
2607- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2608 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2609 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2610 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2611
f7fdb216 2612- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2613 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2614 DHCPv6 support.
2615
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2616- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2617 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2618 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2619
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2620- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2621 have been incorporated.
2622
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2623- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2624 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2625 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2626 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2627 that belong to the peer in need.
2628
2629- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2630 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2631
2632- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2633 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2634 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2635
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2636- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2637 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2638
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2639- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2640 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2641 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2642 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2643 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2644
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2645- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2646 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2647 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2648 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2649
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2650- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2651 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2652 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2653 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2654 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2655 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2656 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2657 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2658 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2659
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2660- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2661 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2662
41e45067 2663- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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2664 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2665 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2666 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2667
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2668- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2669 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2670 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2671 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2672
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2673- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2674 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2675 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2676 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2677 via Robin Breathe.
2678
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2679- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2680 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2681 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2682 from Christof Chen.
2683
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2684- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2685 formally supported.
2686
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2687 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2688
2689- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2690 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2691
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2692 Changes since 3.0.5
2693
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2694- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2695 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2696 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2697 they actually received.
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2698
2699- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2700
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2701- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2702 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2703 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2704 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2705
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2706- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2707
d69fb6a8 2708- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2709 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2710
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2711- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2712 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2713 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2714 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2715 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2716 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2717 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2718 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2719
2720- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2721 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2722 'file' field.
02428754 2723
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2724- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2725 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2726
67674ffb
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2727- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2728 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2729 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2730
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2731- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2732 from Chris Wagner.
2733
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2734- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2735 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2736 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2737
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2738- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2739 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2740 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2741 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2742 was set.
2743
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2744- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2745 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2746
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2747- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2748 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2749 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2750 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2751 active ones.
2752
02428754 2753 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2754
901306d5 2755- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2756 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2757 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2758 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2759 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2760
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2761- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2762 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2763
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2764 Changes since 3.0.4
2765
2766- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2767 scopes are actually global has been added.
2768
2769- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2770 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2771 known to be damaging.
2772
2773- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2774 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2775 balancing).
2776
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2777- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2778 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2779 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2780
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2781- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2782 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2783 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2784
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2785- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2786 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2787 more clear now.
2788
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2789- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2790 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2791 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2792 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2793 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2794 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2795
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2796- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2797 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2798
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2799- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2800 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2801 made possible.
2802
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2803- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2804 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2805 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2806
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2807- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2808 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2809
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2810- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2811 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2812 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2813
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2814- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2815 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2816 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2817 value with the later configured value).
2818
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2819- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2820 have been named and documented.
2821
2822- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2823 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2824 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2825 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2826 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2827 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2828 write new output.
2829
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2830 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2831
2832- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2833 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2834
2835 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2836
2837- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2838 mailing list.
2839
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2840 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2841
45d545f0 2842- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2843 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2844
2845- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2846 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2847
2848- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2849 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2850 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2851 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2852
2853- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2854 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2855 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2856 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2857 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2858 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2859 transition (properly).
2860
2861- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2862
2863 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2864
2865- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2866 STDIN after reading one line.
2867
2868- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2869 descriptor it opened twice.
2870
2871- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2872 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2873 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2874
2875 Changes since 3.0.3
2876
2877- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2878 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2879 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2880
2881- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2882 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2883 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2884
2885- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2886 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2887 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2888 leases to allocate.
2889
2890- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2891 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2892 than the entire block of them.
2893
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2894! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2895 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2896 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2897 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2898 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2899 to a patch from infamous42md.
2900
2901! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2902 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2903 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2904 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2905 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2906 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2907
2908- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2909 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2910 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2911
2912- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2913 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2914
2915- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2916 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2917 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2918 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2919 transitional states.
2920
2921- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2922 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2923 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2924
2925- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2926 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2927 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2928
2929- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2930 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2931
2932- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2933 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2934
2935- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2936 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2937 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2938
2939- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2940 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2941
2942- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2943 repaired.
2944
2945- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2946 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2947 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2948 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2949
2950- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2951 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2952 data.
2953
2954- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2955 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2956 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2957 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2958 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2959
2960- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2961 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2962 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2963 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2964 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2965
2966- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2967 has been repaired.
2968
2969- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2970 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2971 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2972 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2973 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2974
2975- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2976 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2977
45d545f0 2978- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2979 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2980 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2981 move to 3.[01].x.
2982
2983- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2984 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2985
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2986 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2987
2988- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2989 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2990
2991- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2992 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2993 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2994 workaround.
2995
2996 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2997
2998- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2999 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
3000
3001 Changes since 3.0.3b1
3002
3003- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
3004 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
3005 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
3006
3007- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
3008 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
3009 dynamic updates were also retouched.
3010
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3011 Changes since 3.0.2
3012
3013- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 3014 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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3015 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
3016
3017- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3018 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3019 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3020 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3021 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3022
3023- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3024 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3025 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3026
3027- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3028 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3029 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3030
3031- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3032 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3033 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3034 Peter Poeml.
3035
3036- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3037 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3038
3039- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3040 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3041 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3042 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3043 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3044 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3045
3046- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3047 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3048 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3049 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3050
3051- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3052 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3053 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3054 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3055
3056- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3057 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3058
3059- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3060 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3061 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3062
3063- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3064 7 bytes, and failover.
3065
3066- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3067 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3068 at Red Hat.
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3069
3070- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3071 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3072 should work better.
3073
3074- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3075 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3076 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3077
3078- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3079 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3080 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3081
3082 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3083
3084- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3085 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3086
3087 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3088
45d545f0 3089- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3090 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3091 overloading. This was repaired.
3092
3093- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3094 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3095 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3096 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3097 three chunks to fit.
3098
3099- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3100 were repaired.
3101
3102- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3103 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3104 leak).
3105
3106 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3107
3108- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3109 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3110
3111 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3112
3113- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3114
3115 Changes since 3.0.1
3116
3117- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3118 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3119 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3120
3121- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3122 name was not provided by the server.
3123
3124- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3125 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3126
3127- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3128 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3129
3130- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3131 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3132
3133- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3134
3135- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3136
3137- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3138 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3139 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3140 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3141 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3142
3143- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3144 the configuration be globally scoped.
3145
3146- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3147 Farkas.
3148
3149- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3150 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3151
3152- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3153 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3154
3155- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3156 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3157
3158- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3159 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3160 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3161 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3162
3163- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3164 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3165 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3166 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3167
3168- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3169 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3170 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3171
3172- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3173
3174- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3175 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3176 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3177
3178- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3179 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3180 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3181 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3182 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3183
3184- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3185 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3186
3187- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3188 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3189
3190- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3191 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3192 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3193 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3194
3195- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3196 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3197
3198- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3199 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3200 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3201
3202- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3203 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3204 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3205 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3206 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3207 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3208
3209- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3210 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3211 Infoblox.
3212
3213- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3214
3215- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3216 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3217 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3218 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3219 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3220 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3221 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3222
3223- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3224 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3225 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3226
3227- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3228 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3229 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3230
3231- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3232
3233 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3234
3235- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3236 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3237 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3238 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3239 systems either.
3240
3241- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3242
3243- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3244 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3245 is false.
3246
3247- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3248 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3249
3250- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3251
3252 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3253
3254! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3255 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3256 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3257 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3258 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3259 both finding and solving the problem.
3260
3261! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3262 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3263 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3264 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3265 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3266 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3267 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3268 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3269 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3270 published version of ISC DHCP.
3271
3272- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3273
3274- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3275
3276 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3277
3278- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3279 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3280 Richard Hirst.
3281
3282- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3283 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3284 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3285
3286- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3287
3288- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3289 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3290 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3291 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3292
3293- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3294 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3295
3296- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3297 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3298
3299- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3300
3301 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3302
3303- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3304 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3305
3306- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3307 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3308 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3309
3310- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3311 by name was fixed.
3312
45d545f0 3313- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3314 longer result in error.
3315
3316- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3317
3318- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3319 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3320 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3321
3322- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3323 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3324
3325- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3326 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3327 Blapp.
3328
3329- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3330 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3331 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3332 Martin Blapp.
3333
3334- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3335 expiry times in failover configurations.
3336
3337- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3338 Steve G.
3339
3340- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3341 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3342
3343- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3344 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3345 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3346 now "unknown-144".
3347
3348- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3349 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3350
3351 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3352
3353- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3354
3355- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3356 not be bash.
3357
3358- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3359
3360- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3361 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3362 that errored before will now work properly.
3363
3364- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3365 names was repaired.
3366
3367- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3368 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3369 configuration file.
3370
3371- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3372 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3373
3374- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3375 error rather than a null dereference.
3376
3377 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3378
3379- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3380
3381- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3382
3383- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3384 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3385
3386- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3387
3388- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3389
3390- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3391 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3392 self-corrupting lease databases.
3393
3394- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3395
3396- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3397 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3398
3399- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3400
3401- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3402
3403- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3404 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3405 Ling Gou.
3406
3407- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3408 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3409
3410- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3411 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3412 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3413
3414- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3415 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3416
3417 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3418
3419- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3420 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3421
3422- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3423
3424- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3425 a memory leak.
3426
3427- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3428 script.
3429
3430- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3431
3432- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3433
3434- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3435
3436- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3437
3438- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3439
3440- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3441
3442- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3443
3444- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3445
3446- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3447
3448- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3449
3450- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3451
3452- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3453
3454 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3455
3456- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3457 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3458 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3459
3460 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3461
3462- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3463 to be renewed.
3464
3465- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3466 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3467
3468- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3469 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3470
3471- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3472 that two permit lists matched.
3473
3474- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3475 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3476
3477- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3478
3479- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3480 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3481
3482- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3483
3484- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3485
3486- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3487 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3488 going to update its A record.
3489
3490- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3491 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3492 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3493 DNS server.
3494
3495- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3496
3497- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3498
3499- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3500 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3501 NetBSD project).
3502
3503- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3504 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3505
3506- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3507 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3508
3509- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3510
3511- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3512
3513- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3514 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3515 failover protocol standard.
3516
3517- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3518 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3519 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3520
3521- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3522 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3523 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3524 do so.
3525
3526- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3527
3528 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3529
3530- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3531
3532- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3533 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3534
3535- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3536 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3537
3538- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3539 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3540 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3541
3542- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3543 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3544 network, merge the two pools.
3545
3546- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3547 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3548 fix this bug.
3549
3550 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3551
3552- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3553 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3554
3555- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3556 the same case.
3557
3558- Additional documentation.
3559
3560- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3561 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3562
3563 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3564
3565- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3566- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3567
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3569
3570- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3571 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3572 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3573 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3574 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3575
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3577
3578- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3579 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3580 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3581 wasn't the one that removed it.
3582
3583- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3584 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3585 were not configured.
3586
3587- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3588
3589- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3590 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3591 routing information.
3592
3593- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3594 request being sent.
3595
3596- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3597 done.
3598
3599- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3600 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3601 were pending.
3602
3603- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3604 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3605 problems with failover.
3606
3607- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3608 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3609 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3610
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3612
3613- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3614 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3615
3616- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3617 no object is open, it dumps core.
3618
3619- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3620
3621- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3622
3623- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3624
3625- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3626 a host object attribute with a null value.
3627
3628 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3629
3630- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3631
3632- Fix an obscure core dump.
3633
3634- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3635 when crucial information is left out.
3636
3637- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3638
3639- Documentation updates.
3640
3641 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3642
3643- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3644
3645- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3646 structure wasn't zeroed.
3647
3648- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3649 incorrectly.
3650
3651- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3652 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3653 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3654 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3655 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3656 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3657 restarted.
3658
3659 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3660
3661- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3662 in failover-enabled pools.
3663
3664- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3665 declarations).
3666
3667- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3668 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3669
3670- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3671 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3672
3673- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3674
3675- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3676 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3677
3678- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3679
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3680 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
3681
3682- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3683
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3684 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3685
3686- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3687
3688- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3689
3690- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3691
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3692 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3693
3694- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3695 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3696 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3697
3698- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3699 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3700 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3701 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3702 string.
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3703
3704- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3705
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3706 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3707
3708- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3709 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3710
3711- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3712 malformed packets.
3713
3714- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3715
3716- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3717 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3718 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3719
3720- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3721
3722- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3723
3724- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3725
3726- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3727 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3728
3729- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3730 tcp connections from being played back.
3731
3732- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3733 on exit.
3734
3735- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3736
3737- Add some configurability to the build system.
3738
3739- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3740
3741- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3742 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3743 hadn't been noticed until now.
3744
3745 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3746
3747- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3748 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3749
3750- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3751 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3752 conformant, but also didn't work).
3753
3754- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3755 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3756
3757- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3758 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3759
3760- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3761 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3762
3763- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3764 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3765
3766- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3767 doing failover.
3768
3769- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3770 running on alpha processors.
3771
3772- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3773 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3774
3775- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3776
3777- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3778
3779- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3780 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3781
3782- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3783
3784- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3785 actually named (key names are domain names).
3786
3787- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3788
3789- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3790 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3791
3792- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3793 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3794
3795- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3796 statements.
3797
3798- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3799 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3800
3801- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3802 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3803 operating.
3804
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3805 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3806
3807- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3808 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3809 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3810 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3811
3812- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3813 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3814
3815- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3816
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3817 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3818
3819- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3820 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3821
3822- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3823 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3824 to the chain.
3825
3826- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3827
3828- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3829
3830- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3831
98311e4b 3832- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3833 attribute values in omshell.
3834
98311e4b 3835- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3836
3837- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3838
3839 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3840
3841- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3842 DHCPDECLINE.
3843
3844- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3845
3846- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3847 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3848 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3849
3850- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3851
3852- Documentation fixes.
3853
3854- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3855 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3856
3857- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3858 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3859
3860- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3861
3862- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3863
3864- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3865 case-insensitive.
3866
3867- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3868
98311e4b 3869- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3870 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3871 consistently.
3872
3873- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3874 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3875
3876- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3877
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3878 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3879
3880- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3881 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3882 result of duplicate leases.
3883
3884- Document OMAPI server objects.
3885
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3886 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3887
3888- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3889 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3890
3891- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3892 core dumps.
3893
3894- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3895 Friedrich.
3896
3897- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3898
3899 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3900
3901- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3902 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3903 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3904 billing class code.
3905
3906- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3907 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3908
3909- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3910 trace file.
3911
79ea3de8 3912 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 3913
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3914- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3915 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3916 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3917 e.g., Digital Unix.
3918
3919- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3920 when no error had occurred.
3921
3922- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3923 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3924 non-communicating state.
3925
3926- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3927
3928- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3929 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3930 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3931
3932- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3933 when the client lease expired.
3934
3935- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3936 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3937 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3938 in testing.
3939
3940- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3941 the command line, it would fail.
3942
3943- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3944 user impact).
3945
3946- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3947
3948- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3949 they're executable.
3950
3951 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3952
3953- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3954 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3955 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3956 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3957
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3958- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3959 Transmeta.
3960
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3961- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3962 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3963 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3964 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3965
3966- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3967 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3968
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3969 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3970
3971- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3972 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3973
3974- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3975
3976- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3977
3978- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3979
3980- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3981
3982- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3983
3984- Update some parts of the README file.
3985
3986- Support GCC on SCO.
3987
adbef119 3988 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
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3989
3990- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3991 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3992
3993- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3994 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3995 unbill the old class.
3996
3997- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3998 process the state transition immediately.
3999
4000- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
4001 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
4002
4003- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
4004
4005- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
4006
4007- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
4008
4009- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
4010
4011- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
4012 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
4013 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
4014
4015- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
4016 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4017
4018- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4019 lease file.
4020
4021- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4022
4023- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4024
adbef119 4025 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
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4026
4027- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4028 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4029
4030- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4031
adbef119 4032 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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4033
4034- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4035
adbef119 4036 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4037
4038- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4039
4040- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4041 pl19.
4042
4043- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4044 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4045 past the regression test.
4046
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4048
4049- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4050 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4051
4052- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4053 DHCPREQUEST.
4054
4055- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4056
4057- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4058
4059- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4060
adbef119 4061 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 4062
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4063- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4064 (Damien Neil)
4065
4066- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4067 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4068
4069- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4070 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4071 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4072
4073- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4074 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4075 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4076 message.
4077
4078- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4079 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4080 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4081
98311e4b 4082- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4083 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4084 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4085 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4086 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4087 this way will work.
4088
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4089- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4090
4091- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4092 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4093 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4094 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4095
4096 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4097
4098 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4099
4100- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4101 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4102 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4103
4104- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4105 Hermann Lauer.
4106
4107- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4108 messages.
4109
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4110- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4111 it contained quoted strings.
4112
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4113 ** there was no pl17 **
4114
adbef119 4115 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 4116
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4117- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4118 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4119 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4120 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4121 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4122 tracking down memory leaks.
4123
4124- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4125 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4126 Solaris.
4127
4128- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4129 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4130 corruption and core dumps.
4131
4132- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4133 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4134
4135- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4136
4137- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4138 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4139
4140- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4141 name and version to standard output.
4142
4143- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4144
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4145- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4146 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4147
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4148- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4149
4150- Lots of documentation updates.
4151
4152- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4153 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4154
4155- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4156
4157- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4158 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4159
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4161
4162- Some documentation tweaks.
4163
4164- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4165
4166- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4167
4168- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4169 agent options into them.
4170
4171- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4172
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4173- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4174 options.
4175
adbef119 4176 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4177
4178- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4179 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4180 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4181 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4182 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4183
4184- Fix up documentation.
4185
4186- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4187 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4188
4189- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4190
4191- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4192
4193- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4194 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4195 practical use otherwise.
4196
4197- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4198 for debugging.
4199
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4201
4202- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4203 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4204 dump on some systems.
4205
4206- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4207 option.
4208
4209- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4210 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4211
4212- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4213 that were not printing enough information.
4214
4215- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4216 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4217
4218- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4219 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4220 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4221 were answering.
4222
4223- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4224 the transition.
9a111ee8 4225
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4228
4229- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4230
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4231 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4232
4233- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4234 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4235 representation from working correctly.
4236
4237- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4238 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4239 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4240 could spin.
4241
4242- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4243 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4244
4245- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4246 interface name on the command line.
4247
4248- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4249 client state.
4250
4251- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4252 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4253 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4254 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4255 added by Ted Lemon.
4256
4257- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4258 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4259
4260- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4261 end option.
4262
4263- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4264 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4265 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4266
4267- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4268 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4269 face of a null hardware address on input.
4270
4271- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4272 specified unqualified.
4273
4274- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4275 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4276
4277- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4278 RFC.
4279
4280- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4281
4282- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4283
4284- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4285 it works.
4286
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4287 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4288
4289- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4290 to CVS.
4291
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4292 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4293
4294- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4295
4296- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4297 in patchlevel 9.
4298
4299- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4300 options at renewal time.
4301
4302- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4303 configuration language.
4304
4305- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4306
4307- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4308 done when no client hostname was received.
4309
4310- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4311
4312- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4313 the DHCP option space.
4314
4315- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4316
4317- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4318 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4319
4320- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4321 silently dropped.
4322
4323- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4324 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4325
4326- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4327 will be correctly updated.
4328
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4329 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4330
4331- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4332 bounds-checking.
4333
4334 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4335
4336- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4337
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4340- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4341 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4342 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4343
4344- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4345 option.
4346
4347- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4348 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4349 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4350 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4351 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4352 meaningfully.
4353
4354- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4355 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4356 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4357
4358- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4359 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4360 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4361 this one down!
4362
4363- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4364 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4365 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4366 down and fixing this problem.
4367
4368 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4369
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4370- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4371 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4372
4373- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4374 environment.
4375
4376- Fix suffix operator.
4377
4378- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4379
4380- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4381 connection code.
4382
4383- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4384
4385- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4386
4387- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4388 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4389
4390- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4391
4392- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4393
4394- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4395 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4396
4397- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4398 spawn with.
4399
4400- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4401 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4402
4403- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4404 for OMAPI.
4405
4406- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4407 can install in host declarations.
4408
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4409 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4410
4411- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4412 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4413 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4414 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4415 comments)!
4416
4417- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4418
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4419- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4420 request for help on this with patches!
4421
4422- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4423 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4424 lost, they never reconnect.
4425
4426- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4427 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4428
4429- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4430 dump.
4431
4432- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4433 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4434 catching this one.
4435
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4436 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4437
4438- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4439 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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4440 lease renewal time.
4441
4442- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4443 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4444 declared without a key.
4445
4446- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4447
4448- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4449 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4450
4451- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4452 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4453 determine the maximum size of the response.
4454
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4455 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4456
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4457- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4458 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4459
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4460- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4461 RENEWING client.
4462
4463- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4464
4465- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4466 using memcmp().
4467
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4468 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4469
4470- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4471 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4472 pointing this out.
4473
4474- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4475 exit.
4476
4477- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4478
4479- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4480 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.