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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.
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30- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
31 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
80778e94 32 be preferable.
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34- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
35
98bd7ca0 36- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 37 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 38 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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40For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
41well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
42README file.
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44ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
45output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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47The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
48work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
49<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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51ISC DHCP is open source software maintained by Internet Systems
52Consortium. This product includes cryptographic software written
53by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
54
d618ba48 55 Changes since 4.3.0 (new features)
1e08558f 56
d618ba48 57 Changes since 4.3.0 (bug fixes)
0b0a1399 58
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59- Tidy up several small tickets.
60 Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
61 was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
62 [ISC-Bugs #20962]
63 Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
64 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
65 [ISC-Bugs #31328]
66 Remove log_priority as it isn't currently used.
67 [ISC-Bugs #33397]
68 Increase the size of the buffer used for reading interface information.
69 [ISC-Bugs #34858]
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71- Remove an extra set of the msg_controllen variable.
72 [ISC-Bugs #21035]
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74- Add a more understandable error message if a configuration attempts
75 to add multiple keys for a single zone. Thanks to a patch from Jiri
76 Popelka at Red Hat.
77 [ISC-Bugs #31892]
09dccd03 78
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79- Fix some minor issues in the dst code.
80 [ISC-Bugs #34172]
eb2d84b6 81
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82- Properly #ifdef functions so that the code can compile without NSUPDATE.
83 [ISC-Bugs #35058]
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85- Update the partner's stos (start time of state, basically when we last
86 heard from this partner) field when updating the state in failover.
87 [ISC-Bugs #35549]
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89- Modify the overload processing to allow space for the remote agent ID.
90 [ISC-Bugs #35569]
91 Handle the ordering of the SUBNET_MASK option even if it is the last
92 option in the list.
93 [ISC-Bugs #24580]
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95- Remove the code that allows a server to follow RFC3315 instead of
96 the subsequent errata from August 2010 when determining which IAs
97 to include if no addresses will be assigned.
98 [ISC-Bugs #28938]
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100- Remove unused RCSID tags.
101 [ISC-Bugs #35846]
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103- Correct the v6 client timing code. When doing the timing backoff
104 for MRT limit it to MRD.
105 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
106 [ISC-Bugs #21238
3abc5708 107
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108- Add a log entry when killing a client and remove the PID files
109 when a server, relay or client are killed.
110 [ISC-Bugs #16970]
111 [ISC-Bugs #17258]
10b7683e 112
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113- Some minor cleanups in the client code.
114 In addition to checking for dhcpc check for bootpc in the services list.
115 [ISC-Bugs #18933]
116 Correct the client code to only try to get a lease once when the
117 given the "-1" argument.
118 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
119 [ISC-Bugs #26735]
120 When asked for the version don't send the output to syslog.
121 [ISC-Bugs #29772]
122 Add the next server information to the environment variables for
123 use by the client script. In order to avoid changing the client
124 lease file the next server information isn't written to it.
125 Thanks to Tomas Hozza at Red Hat for the suggestion and a prototype fix.
126 [ISC-Bugs #33098]
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128- Several updates to the dhcp server code.
129 When not in quiet mode print out the files being used.
130 [ISC-Bugs #17551]
131 As accessing some pid files may require privileges move the dropping
132 of permission bits due to the paranoia patch to be after the pid code.
133 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and fix.
134 [ISC-Bugs #25806]
135 When processing a "--version" request don't output the version information
136 to syslog.
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138- Add the "enable-log-pid" build option to the configure script. When enabled
139 this causes the client, server and relay programs to include the PID
140 number in syslog messages.
141 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski for the suggestion and proto-patch.
142 [ISC-Bugs #29713]
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144- Add a #define to specify the prefix length used when a client attempts
145 to configure an address. This can be modified by editing includes/site.h.
146 By default it is set to 64. While 128 might be a better choice it would
147 also be a change for currently running systems, so we have left it at 64.
148 [ISC-Bugs #DHCP-2]
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150- Add a run time option to the client "-df" to allow the administrator to
151 point to a second lease file the client can search for a DUID. This can
152 be used to allow a v4 and a v6 instance of the client to share a DUID.
153 The second file will only be searched if there isn't a DUID in the main
154 lease file and the DUID will be written out to the main lease file.
155 [ISC-Bugs #34886]
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157- Have the client fsync the lease file to avoid lease corruption if the
158 client hibernates or otherwise shuts down.
159 [ISC-Bugs #35894]
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161- Add a check for L2VLAN in bpf.c to help support VLAN interfaces
162 Thanks to Steinar Haug for the suggestion.
163 [ISC-Bugs #36033]
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165- Modify the handling of the resolv.conf file to allow the DHCP
166 process to start up even if the resolv.conf file has problems.
167 [ISC-Bugs #35989]
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169- Add threshold logging functionality. Two new options,
170 log-threshold-low and log-threshold-high, indicate to the
171 server if and when it should log an error message as addresses
172 in a pool are used.
173 [ISC-Bugs #34487]
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175- Add code to properly dereference a pointer in the dhclient code
176 on an error condition.
177 [ISC-Bugs #36194]
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179- Add code to help clean up soft leases.
180 [ISC-Bugs #36304]
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182- Disable the gentle shutdown functionality until we can determine
183 the best way to present it to remove or reduce the side effects.
184 [ISC-Bugs #36066]
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186- Modify the message displayed when a process hits a fatal error.
187 The new message is much shorter and simply points to the README
188 and our website for directions on bug submissions.
189 [ISC-Bugs #24789]
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191- Handle an absent resolv.conf file better.
192 [ISC-Bugs #35194]
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194- Tidy up receive packet processing.
195 Thanks to Brad Plank of GTA for reporting the issue and suggesting
196 a possible patch.
197 [ISC-Bugs #34447]
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199- Corrected parser's right brace matching when a statement contains an error.
200 [ISC-Bugs #36021]
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202- TSIG-authenticated dynamic DNS updates now support the use of these
203 additional algorithms: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256, hmac-sha384,
204 and hmac-sha512
205 [ISC-Bugs #36947]
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207- Added check for invalid failover message type. Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann
208 working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and provided the
4ce21cb6 209 patch.
d618ba48 210 [ISC-Bugs #36653]
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212- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
213 Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
214 provided the patch.
215 [ISC-Bugs #36897]
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217- Log statements depicting what files will be used by the server now occur
218 after the configuration file has been processed.
219 [ISC-Bugs #36671]
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221- Addressed Coverity issues reported as of 07-31-2014:
222 [ISC-Bugs #36712] Corrects Coverity reported "high" impact issues.
223 [ISC-Bugs #36933] Corrects Coverity reported "medium" impact issues
224 [ISC-Bugs #37708] Fixes compilation error in dst_api.c seen in older
225 compilers that was introduced by #36712
a3471269 226
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227- Server now supports a failover split value of 256.
228 [ISC-Bugs] #36664]
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230- Remove unneeded error #defines. These defines were included in case
231 external programs required the older versions of the macro. They
232 have been #ifdeffed for now and will be removed at a future date.
233 See site.h for the #define to include them again, but you should
234 switch to using the DHCP_R_* versions instead of the ISC_R_* versions.
235 Also ISC_R_MULTIPLE has been removed as it is also defined in bind.
236 [ISC-Bugs #37128]
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238- Added checks in range6 and prefix6 statement parsing to ensure addresses
239 are within the declared subnet. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
240 bug report and patch.
241 [ISC-Bugs #32453]
242 [ISC-Bugs #17766]
243 [ISC-Bugs #18510]
244 [ISC-Bugs #23698]
245 [ISC-Bugs #28883]
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247- Addressed checksum issues:
248 Added checksum readiness check to Linux packet filtering which eliminates
249 invalid packet drops due to checksum errors when checksum offloading is
250 in use. Based on dhcp-4.2.2-xen-checksum.patch made to the Fedora project.
251 [ISC-Bugs #22806]
252 [ISC-Bugs #15902]
253 [ISC-Bugs #17739]
254 [ISC-Bugs #18010]
255 [ISC-Bugs #22556]
256 [ISC-Bugs #29769]
257 Inbound packets with UDP checksums of 0xffff now validate correctly rather
258 than being dropped.
259 [ISC-Bugs #24216]
260 [ISC-Bugs #25587]
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262- Added the echo-client-id configuration parameter to the server configuration.
263 The server now supports RFC 6842 compliant behavior by setting a new
264 configuration parameter, echo-client-id. When enabled, the server will
265 include the client identifier option (Option code 61) if received, in its
266 responses. The server identifier returned in NAKs (if enabled) will now
267 be the globally defined value (if one) if the server cannot attribute the
268 inbound request to a known subnet.
269 [ISC-Bugs #35958]
270 [ISC-Bugs #32545]
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272- Added support of the configuration parameter, use-host-decl-names, to
273 BOOTP request handling.
274 [ISC-Bugs #36233]
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276- Added logic to ignore the signal, SIGPIPE, which ensures write failures
277 will be delivered as errors rather than as SIGPIPE signals on all OSs.
278 Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE who reported the issue and provided
279 the patch upon which the fix is based.
280 [ISC-Bugs #32222]
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282- In the failover code, handle the case of communications being interrupted
283 when the servers are dealing with POTENTIAL-CONFLICT. This patch allows
284 the primary to accept the secondary moving from POTENTIAL-CONFLICT to
285 RESOLUTION-INTERRUPTED as well as handling the bind update process better.
286 In addition the code to resend update or update all requests has been
287 modified to send requests more often.
288 [ISC-Bugs #36810]
289 [ISC-Bugs #20352]
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291- By default, the server will now choose the value to use in the forward DNS
292 name from the following in order of preference:
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294 1. FQDN option if provided by the client
295 2. Host name option if provided by the client
296 3. Configured option host-name if defined
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298 As before, this may be overridden by defining ddns-hostname to the desired
299 value (or expression). In addition, the server logic has been extended to
300 use the value of the host name declaration if use-host-decl-names is enabled
301 and no other value is available.
302 [ISC-Bugs #21323]
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304- DNS updates were being attempted when dhcp-cache-threshold enabled the use of
305 the existing lease and the forward DNS name had not changed. This has been
306 corrected.
307 [ISC-Bugs #37368]
308 [ISC-Bugs #38636]
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310- Corrected an issue which caused dhclient to incorrectly form the result when
311 prepending or appending to the IPv4 domain-search option, received from the
312 server, when either of the values being combined contain compressed
313 components.
314 [ISC-Bugs #20558]
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316- Added the server-id-check parameter to the server configuration.
317 This parameter allows run-time control over whether or not a server,
318 participating in failover, verifies the dhcp-server-identifier option in
319 DHCP REQUESTs against the server's id before processing the request.
320 Formerly, enabling this behavior was done at compilation time through
321 the use of the #define, SERVER_ID_CHECK, which has been removed from site.h
322 The functionality is now only available through the new runtime parameter.
323 [ISC-Bugs #37551]
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325- During startup, when the server encounters a lease whose binding state is
326 FTS_BACKUP but whose pool has no configured failover peer, it will reset the
327 lease's binding state to FTS_FREE. This allows the leases to be reclaimed
328 by the server after a pool's configuration has changed from failover to
329 standalone. Prior to this such leases would remain stuck in the backup state
330 making them unavailable for assignment. Note this conversion will occur
331 whether or not the server is compiled for failover.
332 [ISC-Bugs #36960]
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334- Fixed a small issue in the treatment of hosts in the inform processing
335 that could cause the response to an inform to include information from
336 the wrong scope. The two examples we've heard of are getting subnet
337 instead of group information associated with a host entry, or getting
338 global information instead of subnet if the host entry was built via
339 omapi. Thanks to Julien Soula at University of Lille for finding the
340 bug and supplying a patch.
341 [ISC-Bugs #35712]
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343- Avoid calling pool_timer() recursively from supersede_lease(). This could
344 result in leases changing state incorrectly or delaying the running of the
345 leae expiration code.
346 [ISC-Bugs #38002]
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348- Move the check for a PID file and process to be before we rewrite the
349 lease file. This avoids the possibility of starting a second instance
350 of a server which changes the current lease file confusing the first
351 instance. This check is only included if the admin hasn't disabled PID
352 files.
353 [ISC-Bugs #38078]
354 [ISC-Bugs #38143]
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356- In the client code change the way preferred_life and max_life are printed
357 for environment variables to be unsigned rather than signed.
358 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the bug report and patch.
359 [ISC-Bugs #37084]
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361- Modified Linux packet handling such that packets received via VLAN are now
362 seen only by the VLAN interface. Prior to this, such packets were seen by
363 both the VLAN interface and its parent (physical) interface, causing the
364 server to respond to both. Note this remains an issue for non-Linux OSs.
365 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
366 [ISC-Bugs #37415]
367 [ISC-Bugs #37133]
368 [ISC-Bugs #36668]
369 [ISC-Bugs #36652]
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371- Log content has been changed to more directly suggest that admins should
372 check for multiple IPv6 clients attempting to use the same DUID when only
373 abandoned addresses are available. Debug level logging will now emit counts
374 of the total number of, in-use, and abandoned addresses in a shared subnet
375 when the server finds no addresses available for a given DUID. Lastly,
376 threshold logging is now automatically disabled for shared subnets whose
377 total number of possible addresses exceeds (2^64)-1.
378 [ISC-Bugs #26376]
379 [ISC-Bugs #38131]
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381- Added a global parameter, prefix-length-mode, which may be used to determine
382 how the server uses a non-zero value for prefix-length supplied by clients
383 when soliciting DHCPv6 prefixes. The server supports selection modes of:
384 ignore, prefer, exact, minimum and maximum which are described in detail in
385 the server man pages. The prior behavior of the server was to only offer a
386 prefix whose length exactly matched the prefix-length value requested. If
387 no such prefixes were available, the server returned a status of none
388 available. Note the default mode, "exact", provides this same behavior.
389 [ISC-Bugs #36780]
390 [ISC-Bugs #32228]
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392- Corrected inconsistencies in dhcrelay's setting the upper interface hop count
393 limit such that it now sets it to 32 when the upstream address is a multicast
394 address per RFC 3315 Section 20. Prior to this if the -u argument preceded
395 the -l argument on the command line or if the same interface was specified
396 for both; the logic to set the hop limit count for the upper interface was
397 skipped. This caused the hop count limit to be set to the default value
398 (typically 1) in the outbound upstream packets.
399 [ISC-Bugs #37426]
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401- Modify the linux and openwrt dhclient scripts to process information
402 from a stateless request. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the
403 bug report and patch.
404 [ISC-Bugs #36102]
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406- Remove more unused RCSID tags. These weren't noticed in 4.3 as
407 the code isn't used anymore but we remove them here to keep the
408 code consistent across versions.
409 [ISC-Bugs #36451]
410
411- The server now does a better check to see if it can allocate the memory
412 for large blocks of v4 leases and should provide a slightly better error
413 message. Note well: the server pre-allocates v4 addresses, if you use
414 a large range, such as a /8, the server will attempt to use a large
415 amount of memory and may not start if there either isn't enough memory
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416 or the size exceeds what the code supports.
417 [ISC-Bugs #38637]
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419- The server will now reject unicast Request, Renew, Decline, and Release
420 messages from a client unless the server would have sent that client the
421 dhcp6.unicast option. This behavior is in compliance with paragraph 1 in
422 each of the sections 18.2,1, 18.2.3, 18.2.6, and 18.2.7 of RFC 3315. Prior
423 to this, the server would simply accept the messages. Now, in order for
424 the server to accept such a message, the server configuration must include
425 the dhcp6.unicast option either globally or within the shared network to
426 which the requested lease belongs. In other words, the server will map
427 the first IA_XX address found within the client message to a shared-network
428 and look for the presence of the unicast option there and then globally.
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430 inspired the fix.
b31fe1d5 431 [ISC-Bugs #21235]
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433- The ATF (Automated Testing Framework) tools used for optional unit tests
434 can now be built from its embedded sources in bind, solving the
435 atf-run / atf-report issue with recent (>= 0.20) versions of ATF.
436 The new configuration option is "./configure --with-atf=bind".
1b245c91 437 [ISC-Bugs #38754, #39300]
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439- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #22806.
440 On older linuxes that do not include the tpacket_auxdata structure don't
441 bother allocating the cmsgbuf as it isn't necessary and we don't have
442 a proper length for it.
443 [ISC-Bugs #39209]
444
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445- Remove the dst directory. This was replaced in 4.2.0 with the dst
446 code from the Bind libraries but we continued to include it for
447 backwards compatibility. As we have now released 4.3.x it seems
448 reasonable to remove it.
449 [ISC-Buts #39019]
450
90a062fb 451- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
cacce092 452 was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
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453 DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
454 [ISC-Bugs #37791]
455
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456- When parsing dates for leases convert dates past 2038 to "never".
457 This avoids problems with integer overflows in the date and time
458 handling code for people that decide to use very large lease times
459 or add a lease entry with a date far in the future.
460 [ISC-Bugs #33056]
461
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462- Leave the siaddr field clear when sending a NACK as per RFC 2131
463 table 3.
464 [ISC-Bugs #38769]
465
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466- In the client don't send expired addresses to the script as part of
467 the binding process. Thanks to Sven Trenkel at Google for reporting
468 the issue and suggesting the patch.
469 [ISC-Bugs #38631]
470
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471- While parsing IPv6 addresses treat "add" as part of the address instead
472 of as a token.
473 [ISC-Bugs #39529]
474
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475- Add support for accessing the v4 lease queues (active, free etc) in a
476 binary fashion instead of needing to walk through a linear list to
477 insert, find or remove an entry from the queues. In addition add a
478 compile time option "--enable-binary-leases" to enable the new code
479 or to continue using the old code. The old code is the default.
480 Thanks to Fernando Soto from BlueCat Networks for the patch.
481 [ISC-Bugs #39078]
482
cca6a648 483- Delayed-ack now works properly with Failover. Prior to this, bind updates
484 post startup were being queued but never delivered. Among other things, this
485 was causing leases to not transition from expired or released to free.
486 [ISC-Bugs #31474]
487
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488- Clean up parsing of v6 lease files a bit to avoid infinite loops if the
489 lease file is corrupt in certain ways.
490 [ISC-Bugs #39760]
491
cca6a648 492- Corrected a crash in dhclient that occurs during lease renewal if the
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493 client is performing its own DNS updates. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
494 for the bug report.
cca6a648 495 [ISC-Bugs #38639]
496
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497- Corrected an issue in v6 lease file parsing. Prior to this, when encountering
498 a lease with an address for which no configured pool exists, the server was
499 declaring the lease file corrupt and incorrectly skipping over the subsequent
500 entry in the file. The server will now emit a log message indicating that
501 no pool was found for the address (or prefix) and correctly resume parsing
cacce092 502 with the next entry in the lease file. Our thanks to Michal Žejdl for
673137b1 503 reporting the issue.
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504 [ISC-Bugs #39314]
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506- Be more liberal in finding a subnet group associated with a static
507 prefix. When we added the class matching code for v6 we also added
508 a requirement that the static prefix must be within a subnet the
509 client was in, in order to find the proper statements. We now
510 look for a subnet based on the prefix, failing that on the static
511 address for the client and failing that on the shared network
512 itself.
513 [ISC-Bugs #38329]
514
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515- Add a new action expression "parse_vendor_options", which can be used
516 to parse a vendor-encapsualted-option received by the server based on
517 the encoding specified by the vendor-option-space statement.
518 [ISC-Bugs #36449]
519
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520- Enhance the PARANOIA patch to include fchown() the lease file to
521 allow it to be manipulated after the server does a chown().
522 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
523 [ISC-Bugs #36978]
524
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525- Relax the requirement that prefix pools must be within the subnet.
526 This was added in as part of #32453 in order to avoid configuration
527 mistakes but is being removed as prefixes aren't required to be
528 within the same subnet and many people configure them in that fashion.
529 [ISC-Bugs #40077]
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532 the billing class from the last lease billed to a dynamic class after said
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533 class has been deleted. Our thanks to Lasse Pesonen for reporting the
534 issue.
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535 [ISC-Bugs #39978]
536
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538 been applied to the contributed code which supplies LDAP support.
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540 first adds support for IPv6 configuration and the second provides
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542 contributions (alphabetically):
543 Alex Novak at SUSE
db48f927 544 Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com)
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545 Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
546 Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE
405fccfc 547 (william at adelaide.edu.au), The University of Adelaide
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548 [ISC-Bugs #39056]
549 [ISC-Bugs #22742]
550 [ISC-Bugs #24449]
551 [ISC-Bugs #28545]
552 [ISC-Bugs #29873]
553 [ISC-Bugs #30183]
554 [ISC-Bugs #30402]
555 [ISC-Bugs #32217]
556 [ISC-Bugs #32240]
557 [ISC-Bugs #33176]
558 [ISC-Bugs #33178]
559 [ISC-Bugs #36409]
560 [ISC-Bugs #36774]
561 [ISC-Bugs #37876]
562
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565 and suggesting a patch.
2932b357 566 [ISC-Bugs #39279]
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568- Corrected a compilation error introduced by the fix for ISC-Bugs #37415.
569 The error occurs on Linux variants that do not support VLAN tag information
570 in packet auxiliary data. The configure script now only enables inclusion
571 of the VLAN tag-based logic if it is supported by the underlying OS.
572 [ISC-Bugs #38677]
573
45adf35c 574- Specifying the option, --disable-debug, on the configure script command line
4e1bf548 575 now disables debug features. Prior to this, specifying --disable-debug
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577 the issue.
4e1bf548 578 [ISC-Bugs #37780]
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580- Unit test execution now uses a path augmented during configuration
581 processing of the --with-atf option to locate ATF runtime tools, atf-run
582 and atf-report. For most installations of ATF, this should alleviate the
583 need to manually include them in the PATH, as was formerly required.
584 If the configure script cannot locate the tools it will emit a warning,
585 informing the user that the tools must be in the PATH when running unit
586 tests.
587 Secondly, please note that "make check" will now exit with a failure status
588 code (non-zero) if one or more unit tests fail. This means that invoking
589 "make check" from an upper level directory will cause the make process to
590 STOP after the first test subdirectory with failed test(s). To force all
591 tests in all subdirectories to run, regardless of individual test outcome,
592 use the command "make -k check".
593 [ISC-Bugs #38619]
594
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595- Corrected a static analyzer warning in common/execute.c
596 [ISC-Bugs #40374]
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598- ISC DHCP now follows the common convention to use the base name a
599 program is invoked with (aka argv[0], vs. a builtin name) for
600 logs. This should help differentiate syslog entries for DHCPv4 and
601 DHCPv6 servers. You can define OLD_LOG_NAME in includes/site.h to
602 keep the previous behavior.
603 [ISC-Bugs #38692]
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605- The Linux packet filter code now correctly treats only the least significant
606 12 bits in an inbound packet's TCI value as the VLAN id (per IEEE 802.1Q).
607 Prior to this it was using the entire 16 bit value as the VLAN id and
608 incorrectly discarding packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for
609 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
610 [ISC-Bugs #40591]
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612- Fixed several static analysis issues such as potential null
613 references, unchecked strdup returns. Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at
614 gmail dot com) who identified these issues and supplied patches to
615 address them.
616 [ISC-Bugs #40754]
617 [ISC-Bugs #40823]
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619- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server
620 and its ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
621 [ISC-Bugs #40372]
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623- Added the lease address to the end of the debug level log message
624 emitted when an existing lease is renewed within the dhcp-cache-threshold.
625 Thanks to Nathan Neulinger at Missouri S&T for suggesting the change.
626 [ISC-Bugs #40598]
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628- Added dhcpv6 and delayed-ack to settings listed in the "Features:"
629 section of the configure script output. Additionally, all of the
630 features reported on will now always show either a "yes" or "no"
631 value. Prior to this features left to their default setting would
632 not show a value.
633 [ISC-Bugs #40381]
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635- Added a parameter, authoring-byte-order, to the lease file. This value
636 is automatically added to the top of new lease files by the server and
637 indicates the internal byte order (big endian or little endian) of the
638 server. This permits lease files generated on a server with one form of
639 byte order to be used on a server with the opposite form. Our thanks to
640 Timothe Litt for calling this to our attention and for the suggestions
641 he provided.
642 [ISC-Bugs #38396]
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644- Fixed a small memory leak in the DHCPv6 version of the client code.
645 This is unlikely to cause significant issues in actual use.
646 [ISC-Bugs #40990]
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648- Corrected a few minor memory leaks in omapi's dereferencing of
649 host objects. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting
650 the issue and supplying the patches.
651 [ISC-Bugs #33990]
652 [ISC-Bugs #41325]
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654- Cleaned up some of the Make infrastructure to make --with-libbind
655 work better. Though it still only works with an absolute path.
656 [ISC-Bugs #39210]
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658- Made the embedded bind libraries able to be cross compiled
659 (please refer to the bind9 documentation to learn how to cross
660 compile DHCP and its bind library dependency).
661 [ISC-Bugs #38836]
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663- Update the client code to better support getting IA_NAs and IA_PDs
664 in the same packet, see RFC7550 for some discussion.
665 [ISC-Bugs #40190]
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667! Update the bounds checking when receiving a packet.
668 Thanks to Sebastian Poehn from Sophos for the bug report and a suggested
669 patch.
670 [ISC-Bugs #41267]
671 CVE: CVE-2015-8605
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673- When handling an incorrect command line for dhcpd, dhclient or dhcrelay
674 print out a specific error message about the first error in addition
675 to the usage string. This may be disabled by editing includes/site.h.
676 [ISC-Bugs #40321]
677 [ISC-Bugs #41454]
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679- The configure script will now exit with an error message if it cannot find
680 a GNU-style make tool (needed when building BIND libraries) or pkg-config
681 (needed to locate ATF used for building unit tests). Prior to this the
682 script would exit indicating success causing subsequent attempts to build
683 the software to fail.
684 [ISC-Bugs #40371]
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686- Properly terminate strings before passing them to regex and fix
687 a boundary error when creating certain new data strings.
688 Thanks to Andrey Jr. Melnikov for the bug report.
689 [ISC-Bugs #41217]
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691- Option expressions, such as prepend and append, are now supported when
692 running dhclient for IPv6. Prior to this such statements in the
693 client configuration file would be parsed but have no affect. Thanks
694 to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for reporting the issue.
695 [ISC-Bugs #39952]
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697- A failover primary server will now accept a binding status update from the
698 secondary which transitions a lease from ACTIVE to ABANDONED. This accounts
699 for instances in which a client declines a lease and only the secondary
700 server receives it. Prior to this the primary server would reject such an
701 update as an "invalid state transition".
702 [ISC_BUGS #25189]
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704- Properly allocate memory for a bpf filter.
705 Thanks to Bill Parker (wp02855 at gmail dot com) who identified this issue.
706 [ISC-Bugs #41485]
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708- Updated contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to handle garbage in the oui file better
709 and to print out the hostnames a bit better.
710 Thanks to Antoine Beaupré from Debian for the suggested patch.
711 [ISC-Bugs #41288]
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713- The DHCPv6 server now handles long valid and preferred lease times better.
714 Values that would cause the internal end time of the lease to wrap are
715 modified to work as infinite.
716 [ISC-Bugs #40773]
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718- Updated support for cross compiling by allowing the library archiver
719 to be set at configure time via the environment variable 'AR'.
720 [ISC-Bugs #41536]
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722- The server will now match DHCPv6 relayed clients to host declarations
723 which include the "hardware" statement, if the relay connected to the
724 client supplies the client's hardware address via client-linklayer-address
725 option as per RFC 6939.
726 [ISC-Bugs #40334]
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728- Allow a filename to be specified instead of /dev/random during
729 configuration. This is passed to the BIND configuration to allow
730 for cross compilation.
731 [ISC-Bugs #33835]
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733- Add more option definitions.
734 [ISC-Bugs #40562]
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736- Correct outputting of long lines in the lease file when writing
737 a lease that includes long strings in an execute statement.
738 [ISC-Bugs #40994]
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740- The server will now correctly treat a lease as reserved when the client
741 requests an infinite lease time (i.e. OxFFFFFFFF) and "infinite-is-reserved"
742 is enabled. Prior to this the server would halt. In addition, corrections
743 were made to the server to allow a lease's flags field to be set via omapi.
744 Prior to this, the server, depending on the host architecture, would
745 incorrectly parse the new flags value from the omapi message.
746 [ISC-Bugs #31179]
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748- ISC DHCP can now be configured and built from a directory other than
749 the top level source directory. Note that "make distcheck" uses this
750 feature.
751 [ISC-Bugs #39262]
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753- Add support for RFC 3527 to dhcrelay. A new, dhcrelay command line argument,
754 "-U <interface>" enables the addition of a RFC 3527 compliant link selection
755 suboption to the agent option added for clients directly connected to the
756 relay.
757 [ISC-Bugs #34875]
758 [ISC-Bugs #41708]
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760- Add a new global DHCPv6 option, dhcpv6-set-tee-times, which when enabled
761 instructs the server to calculate T1 and T2 as recommended in RFC 3315,
762 Section 22.4.
763 [ISC-Bugs #25687]
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765- Corrected minor Coverity issues.
766 [ISC-Bugs #35144]
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768- Add support for RFC 7341 DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 with a new configuration
769 option "--enable-dhcpv4o6". Note this feature requires DHCPv6 support
770 and is not compatible with delayed-ack. Both client and server use 2
771 processes which communicate over UDP on a pair of sockets. The new
772 "-4o6 <port>" command line argument enables DHCPv4 over DHCPv6 support
773 and specifies the consecutive ports to use for inter-process communication.
774 Please look at doc/DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 for more details.
775 [ISC-Bugs #35711]
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777- Correct interface name formation when using DLPI under Solaris 11. As of
778 Solaris 11, ethernet device files are located in "/dev/net". The configure
779 script has been modified to detect this situation and adjust the directory
780 used accordingly. Thanks to Jarkko Torppa for reporting this issue and
781 submitting a patch
782 [ISC-Bugs #37954]
783 [ISC-Bugs #40752]
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785- Add a dereference call when handling an error condition while
786 decoding a packet.
787 [ISC-Bugs #41774]
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789- Add a new parameter, lease-id-format, to both dhcpd and dhclient. The
790 parameter controls the format in which certain values are written to lease
791 files. Formats supported are octal - quoted string containing octal
792 escapes, and hex - unquoted, colon separated hex digits. Thanks to
793 Jay Ford, University of Iowa for bringing the issue to our attention.
794 [ISC-Bugs #26378]
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797 connections the server will accept. By default this is 200.
798 [ISC-Bugs #41845]
799 CVE: CVE-2016-2774
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801- Fixed util/bindvar.sh error handling.
802 [ISC-Bugs #41973]
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804- Correct error message in relay to use remote id length instead
805 of circuit id length.
806 [ISC-Bugs #42556]
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808- Add support for including an encapsulated option in a response
809 from the DHCPv6 server. This allows the v6 FQDN option to be
810 returned in responses.
811 [ISC-Bugs #29246]
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813- Add logic to test directory Makefiles to avoid copying Attfile(s)
814 when building within the source tree. This eliminates a noisy but
815 otherwise harmless error message when running "make check".
816 [ISC-Bugs #41883]
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818- Leases are now scrubbed of certain prior use information when pool
819 re-balancing reassigns them from one FO peer to the other. This
820 corrects an issue where leases that were offered but ignored retained
821 the client hostname from the original client. Thanks to Pavel Polacek,
822 Jan Evangelista Purkyne University for reporting the issue.
823 [ISC-Bugs #42008]
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825- In the LDAP code and schema add some missing '6' characters to use
826 the v6 instead of the v4 versions. Thanks to Denis Taranushin for
827 reporting this issue and supplying its patch.
828 [ISC-Bugs #42666]
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830- Correct how the pick-first-value expression is written to a lease
831 file. Previously it was written as a concat expression due to
832 a cut and paste error.
833 [ISC-Bugs #42253]
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836 are issues while cleaning up the A or AAAA records.
837 [ISC-Bugs #23954]
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839- Added global configuration parameter, abandon-lease-time, which determines
840 the amount of time a lease remains abandoned. The default is 84600 seconds.
841 Additionaly, the server now conducts a ping check (if ping checks are
842 enabled) prior to offering an abandoned lease to client.
843 [ISC-Bugs #41815]
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845- Correct handling of interface names during interface discovery. This
846 addresses an issue where interface names of 15 characters in length
847 could lead to crashes or interface recognition errors during startup
848 of dhcpd, dhclient, and dhcrelay.
849 [ISC-Bugs #42226]
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851- Updates to contrib/dhcp-lease-list.pl to make it more friendly.
852 They are looking for the lease file in more places and skipping
853 the "processing complete" output when creating machine readable
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855 patch.
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858- When reusing a lease for dhcp-cache-threshold return the hostname
859 to the original lease. Also if the host pointer, UID or hardware address
860 change don't allow reuse of the lease.
861 Thanks to Michael Vincent for reporting this and helping us
862 verify the problem and fix.
863 [ISC-Bugs #42849]
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865- Change dmalloc to use a size_t as the length argument to bring it
866 in line with the call it will make to malloc().
867 [ISC-Bugs #40843]
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870 user configures an incorrect address in the failover stanza the
871 server will continue to open new sockets every 90 seconds until
872 it runs out.
873 [ISC-Bugs #42452]
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877- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
878 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
879 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
880 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
881 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
882 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
80778e94 883 Updated this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
adb95d23 884 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be updated and written to
4809ef5c 885 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding.
8cd88e20 886 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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888- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
889 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
890 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
891
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892- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
893 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
894 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
895 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
3cb6f9bb 896 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs #25979]
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898- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
899 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
900 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
901 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
902 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
903 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
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908- Add support for using classes with v6.
909 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
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911- Update the DDNS code to current standards and allow for sharing
912 of DDNS entries between v4 and v6 clients. The new code is used
913 if the ddns-update-style is set to "standard", the older code is
914 still available if ddns-update-style is set to "interim". The
915 oldest DDNS code "ad-hoc" has been removed. Thanks to Thomas Pegeot
916 who submitted a patch for this issue. This patch is based on
917 that work with some modifications.
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921 Enabling this option will mean that fsync() is never called. This
922 may provide better performance but there is also a risk that a lease
923 will not be properly written to the disk after it has been issued
924 to a client and before the server stops. Using this option is
925 not recommended.
64fb661c 926 [ISC-Bugs #34810]
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929 to serve. One statement is emitted after the server has finished
930 reading its files and is about to enter the dispatch loop.
931 This is "Server starting service.".
932 The second is emitted when a server determines that both it and
933 its failover peer are in the normal state.
934 This is "failover peer <name>: Both servers normal."
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937- Add support for accessing options from v6 relays. The v6relay
938 statement allows the administrator to choose which relay to
939 use when searching for an option, see the dhcp-options man page
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940 for a description. The host-identifier option has also been
941 updated to support the use of relay options, see the dhcpd.conf
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943 [ISC-Bugs #19598]
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948 DDNS. Due to the lack of security and increase in fragility of the
949 system when using this feature we strongly recommend the use of
950 appropriate zone statements rather than using this functionality.
951 [ISC-Bugs #30461]
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953- Add support for specifying the address from which to send
954 DDNS updates on the DHCP server. There are two new options
955 "ddns-local-address4" and "ddns-local-address6" that each take
956 one instance of their respective address types.
957 [ISC-Bugs #34779]
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959- Add ignore-client-uids option in the server. This option causes
960 the server to not record a client's uid in its lease. This
961 violates the specification but may also be useful when a client
962 can dual boot using different client ids but the same mac address.
6b9c9f87 963 Thank you to Brian De Wolf at Cal Poly Pomona for the patch.
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965 [ISC-Bugs #35066]
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967- Extend the DHCPINFORM processing to honor the subnet selection option
968 and take host declarations into account.
969 Thanks to Christof Chen for testing and submitting the patch.
970 [ISC-Bugs #35015]
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973 for a hardware address if there is no packet. This allows the
974 server to find the hardware address during on-expiry processing.
975 [ISC-Bugs #24584]
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977- Add definitions for some options that have been specified by the IETF.
978 [ISC-Bugs #29268]
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984 is no longer truncated to one octet.
8ee352ee 985
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988- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
989 reflect support for prefix delegation.
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01a44a77 991- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
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993- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
994 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
995 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
996 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
997 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
998 entry for each lease.
c5bc8b1a 999
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1003 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
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1006 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
1007 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
1008 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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1011 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
1012 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
1013 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
1014 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
1015 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
1016 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
1017 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
1018 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
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1021 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
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1024 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
1025 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
1026 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
08b2d347 1027
01a44a77 1028- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
08b2d347 1029
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1030- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
1031 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
1032 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
1033 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
1034 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
ad4001ce 1035
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1036- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
1037 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
1038 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
1039 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
1040 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
3cb6f9bb 1041
01a44a77 1042- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
f6dc164f 1043
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1044- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
1045 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
4b8251a0 1046
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1047- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
1048 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
1049 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
1050 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
1051 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
1052 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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1054- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
1055 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
d9b5c150 1056
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1057 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
1058 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
08e6dad9 1059
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1060 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
1061 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
9f9265b6 1062
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1063 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
1064 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
9f9265b6 1065
01a44a77 1066- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
35de6c8c 1067
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1068- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
1069 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
1070 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
1071 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
1072 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
1073 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
de87ffe3 1074
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1075- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
1076 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
1077 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
1078 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
1079 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
1080 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
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1082- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
1083 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
1084 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
3bedb117 1085
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1086- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
1087 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
1088 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1089 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
18a28679 1090
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1091- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
1092 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
0b2ec8c9 1093
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1094- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
1095 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
1096 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
67b2cb45 1097
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1098- Minor code fixes
1099 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
1100 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
1101 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
1102 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
1103 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
1104 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
9a111ee8 1105 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
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1107 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
1108 Thanks to Martin Pala.
1109 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
1110 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
74977c94 1111
01a44a77 1112- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
30e42327 1113
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1114- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
1115 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
dbd65517 1116
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1117- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
1118 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
0f750c4f 1119
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1120- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
1121 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
b95f1ee0 1122
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1123- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
1124 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
1125 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
b95f1ee0 1126
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1127- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
1128 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
0ef9a46e 1129
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1130- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
1131 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1132 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
de6c9af6 1133
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1134- Fixes to lease input and output.
1135 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
1136 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
1137 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
1138 characters.
1139 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
1140 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
87132514 1141
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1142- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
1143 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
1144 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
1145 at Red Hat.
1146 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
1147 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
1148 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
adb95d23 1149 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH environment variable
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1151- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
1152 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
1153 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
1154 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
e3c94800 1155
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1156! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
1157 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
1158 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
1159 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
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1161- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
1162 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
1163 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
d13db163 1164
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1165- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
1166 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
1167 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
1168 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
1169 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
b342f2e7 1170
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1171- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
1172 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
1173 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
1174 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
1175 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
797aab67 1176
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1177! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
1178 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
1179 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
1180 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
1181 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
9a111ee8 1182 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
bc7f8b8e 1183
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1184- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
1185 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
1186 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
d289ee68 1187
adb95d23 1188- Fix the parenthesis in the code to process configuration statements
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1189 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
1190 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
d19fa5a1 1191
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1192- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
1193 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
1194 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
bb9189c3 1195
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1196- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
1197 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
1198 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
1199 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
1200 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
cbbd2714 1201
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1202- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
1203 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
1204 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
1205 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
d208bb04 1206
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1207! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
1208 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
1209 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
1210 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
1211 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
1212 and reset its timeout value.
1213 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
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1215- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
1216 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
1217 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
1218 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
d208bb04 1219
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1221 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
1222 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
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1224- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
1225 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
9a111ee8 1226 when removing the ddns information.
01a44a77 1227 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
d424157d 1228
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1229- Some fixes for LDAP
1230 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
1231 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
1232 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
3221151b 1233
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1234- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
1235 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
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1237! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
1238 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
1239 interfaces with the OS.
1240 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
1241 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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1243- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
1244 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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1246- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
1247 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
1248 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
1249 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
1250 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
1251 in v6 mode at configure time.
1252 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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1254- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
1255 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
9a111ee8 1256 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 1257 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1259- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
1260 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
1261 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
5d082abd 1262 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 1263 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1265- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
1266 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
1267 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
1268 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 1269 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1271- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
1272 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
1273 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
1274 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 1275 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1277- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
1278 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 1279 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1281- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
1282 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
1283 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
1284 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 1285 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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1287- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
1288 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
1289 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
1290
1291- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
1292 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
1293 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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1295- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
1296 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
1297 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
1298 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
1299 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
1300 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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1303 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
1304 responses to the all-ones address.
1305 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
1306 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
1307
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1308- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
1309 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
1310 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
1311 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
1312
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1313- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
1314 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
1315
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1316- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
1317 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
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1318 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
1319
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1320- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
1321 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
1322 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
1323 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
1324 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
1325 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
1326 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
1327 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
1328 enable this except for testing purposes.
1329 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
1330 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
1331
c616de4f 1332- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
9a111ee8 1333 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
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1335- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
a34feb7d 1336
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1337- Client Script fixes
1338 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
1339 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
1340 the domain search address is link local.
1341 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
1342 case of the default router information being changed without the address
1343 being changed.
1344
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1345- Documentation cleanup
1346 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
1347
9a111ee8 1348- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
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1349 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
1350
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1351- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
1352 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
1353 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
1354 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
1355
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1356- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
1357 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
1358 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
1359
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1360- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
1361 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
1362
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1363- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
1364 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
1365 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
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1366 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
1367 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
1368 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
1369
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1370- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
1371 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
1372 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
1373 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
1374 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
1375 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
1376 in site.h then server will be terminated
1377 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
1378
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1379! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
1380 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
1381 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
1382 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
1383 One CVE number for each class of packet.
1384 CVE-2011-2748
1385 CVE-2011-2749
1386
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1387- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
1388 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
1389 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
1390 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
5a38e43f 1391
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1392- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
1393 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
5a38e43f 1394
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1395- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
1396 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
524705e5 1397
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1398- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
1399 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
66be0ad1 1400
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1401! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
1402 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
1403 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
1404 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
1405 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
1406 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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1408! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
1409 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
1410 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
1411 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
1412 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
1413 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
1414 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
1415 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
1416 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
1417 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
1418 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
1419 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
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1421- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
1422 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
1423 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
1424 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
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1426- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
1427 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
1428 from the DNS client code.
1429 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
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1431- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
1432 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
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1434- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
1435 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
1436 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
1437 some issues we found in the socket code.
1438 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
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1440- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
1441 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
1442 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
1443 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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1445- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
1446 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
83d409ae 1447
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1448- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
1449 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
1450 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
1451 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
1452 weren't removed from the DNS.
1453 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
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1455- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
1456 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
1457 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
1458 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
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1460- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
1461 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
1462 dynamic bootp clients.
1463 [ISC-bugs #28574]
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1465- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
1466 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
1467 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
1468 handing it out.
1469 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
1470 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
1471 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
1472 for different IAs.
1473 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
1474 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
f33dc722 1475
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1476- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
1477 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
1478 an int as a boolean).
1479 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
4dc5a6b1 1480
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1481- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
1482 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
1483 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
1484 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
1485 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
1486 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
1487 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
1488 may be removed in the future.
1489 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
1490 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
3004baba 1491
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1492- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
1493 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
1494 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
1495 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
3004baba 1496
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1497- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
1498 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
1499 report and the first version of the patch.
1500 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
9d97e644 1501
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1502- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
1503 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
1504 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
1505 for reporting this issue.
1506 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
23d39ae2 1507
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1508- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
1509 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
1510 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1511 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
1512 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
1513 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
1514 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
1515 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
1516 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
1517 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
23d39ae2 1518
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1519! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
1520 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
1521 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
1522 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
1523 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
1524 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
1525 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
1526 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
1527 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1528 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1529 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
1530 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
0c9d3a81 1531
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1532! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
1533 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
1534 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
9a111ee8 1535 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
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1536 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
1537 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
e1a40211 1538
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1539! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
1540 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
1541 this issue.
1542 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
1543 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
e7e17397 1544
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1545- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
1546 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
1547 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
1548 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
1549 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
1550 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
ef86959b 1551
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1552! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
1553 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
1554 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
1555 New Zealand for finding this issue.
1556 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
1557 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
ef86959b 1558
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1559- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
1560 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
919f1407 1561
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1562- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
1563 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
1564 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
1565 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
1566 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
1567 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
8a0d9ca4 1568
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1569- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
1570 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
1571 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
1572 freed in other cases.
1573 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
17a8f0e2 1574
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1575- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
1576 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
1577 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
1578 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
1579 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
1580 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
1581 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
1582 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
badc999d 1583
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1584- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
1585 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
1586 and patches.
1587 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
0d8c3d6e 1588
9a111ee8 1589- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
01a44a77 1590 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
1e05d095 1591
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1592- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
1593 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
1594 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
1e05d095 1595
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1596- The client now passes information about the options it requested
1597 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
1598 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
1599 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
1600 variables.
1601 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
1943bbf8 1602
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1603- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
1604 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
1605 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
1606 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
1607 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
1608 enabling it.
1609 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
8a513c43 1610
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1611- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
1612 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
d122accf 1613
adb95d23 1614- Move the dhcpd.conf example file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
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1615 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
1616 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
1617 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
1618 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
0d8c3d6e 1619
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1620- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
1621 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
1622 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
1623 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
1624 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
590298e7 1625
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1626- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
1627 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
2b58b865 1628
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1629- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
1630 and comment out a currently unused test.
1631 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
600ee619 1632
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1633- Address static analysis warnings.
1634 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
a5c7bf77 1635
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1636- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
1637 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
a5c7bf77 1638
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1639- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
1640 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
a5c7bf77 1641
01a44a77
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1642- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
1643 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
a5c7bf77 1644
01a44a77
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1645- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
1646 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
1647 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
0585235c 1648
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1649- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
1650 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
1651 for the patch.
1652 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
0585235c 1653
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1654- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
1655 objects.
1656 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
f4bc8261 1657
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1658- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
1659 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
1660 to work more consistently.
1661 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
33692791 1662
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1663- Missing files for ISC DHCP Developer's Guide are now included in
1664 the release tarballs. To generate this documentation, please use
1665 make devel command in doc directory. [ISC-Bugs #32767]
928618dd 1666
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1667- Update client script for use with openwrt.
1668 [ISC-Bugs #29843]
928618dd 1669
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1670- Fix the socket handling for DHCPv6 clients to allow multiple instances
1671 of a client on a single machine to work properly. Previously only
1672 one client would receive the packets. Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat
1673 for the bug report and a potential patch.
1674 [ISC-Bugs #34784]
3c941d42 1675
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1676- Added support for gentle shutdown after signal is received.
1677 [ISC-Bugs #32692] [ISC-Bugs 34945]
bdd8e747 1678
01a44a77
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1679- Enhance the DHCPv6 server logging to include the addresses that are assigned
1680 to the clients.
1681 [ISC-Bugs #26377]
3da71461 1682
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1683- Fix an operation in the DDNS code to be a bitwise instead of logical or.
1684 [ISC-Bugs #35138]
fdfebedf 1685
7aa153b8 1686
adbef119
DH
1687 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
1688
d340bc24
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1689- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
1690 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 1691 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
adbef119 1692
0829d595
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1693- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
1694 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
1695 Cantrell at Red Hat.
1696
8a3c1e33
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1697- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
1698 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
1699
a41d7a25
PS
1700- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
1701
9e3eb22a
DH
1702- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
1703 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
1704 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
1705 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
1706 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
1707 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
1708
33ea4622
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1709- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
1710 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
1711 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
1712 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
1713 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
1714 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
1715 FQDN options by default).
1716
5a671e87
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1717- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
1718 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
1719 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
1720 determined lease time) are omitted.
1721
adb95d23 1722- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asynchronous fashion,
45adf35c 1723 the DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 1724 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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1725
1726- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
1727 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
1728 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
1729
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SR
1730 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
1731
62f6843d
MA
1732- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
1733
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SR
1734- Validate the argument to the -p option.
1735
47e6eb82
DH
1736- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
1737 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
1738 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
1739 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
1740 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
1741
159c89d7
EH
1742- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
1743
1aa0fe5e
DH
1744- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
1745 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
1746 had been deleted from configuration.
1747
cd51403d
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1748- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
1749 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 1750 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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SR
1751 were being ignored.
1752
64e1823d
DH
1753- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
1754
26e59ee9
DH
1755- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
1756 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
1757 Nordahl.
1758
70ea9345
PS
1759- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
1760 dhcpv6 disabled.
1761
8d7dca58 1762- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 1763 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 1764
f4534b17
DH
1765- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
1766 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
1767
f9453d21
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1768- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
1769 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
1770 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
1771
1772- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
1773 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
1774 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
1775 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
1776 fewer system calls.
1777
a3dcc0b1
DH
1778- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
1779 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
1780 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
1781 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
1782 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
1783 Christof Chen.
1784
95fd7038
DH
1785- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
1786 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
1787 and in normal state.
1788
1789- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
1790 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
1791
8a3c1e33
PS
1792- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
1793
1794- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
1795 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
1796 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
1797
dedde1ba
DH
1798- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
1799 rather than restarting the listener.
1800
a57df74a
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1801- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
1802 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
1803
1804- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
1805 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
1806 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
1807
350576c5
DH
1808- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
1809 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
1810 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
1811 timeouts).
1812
792156a9
DH
1813- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
1814 in failover state records.
1815
8a4e543b
DH
1816! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
1817 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
1818 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 1819 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 1820
a1308b64
DH
1821- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
1822 processing a DHCPINFORM.
1823
1b12d999
DH
1824- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
1825 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
1826 last option definition is used.
1827
d453265f
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1828- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
1829 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
1830 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
1831
3e29af1e
PS
1832- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
1833 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
1834
b8d45c67
DH
1835- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
1836 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
1837 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
1838 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
1839 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
1840 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
1841
583c1c16
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1842- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
1843 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
1844 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
1845 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
1846
e4e3a2ab
DH
1847! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
1848 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
95f5d38c 1849
875e99dc
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1850- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
1851 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
1852
2267da84
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1853- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
1854 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
1855 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
1856 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
1857 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 1858 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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1859 configuration.
1860
cd3f0b9b
DH
1861- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
1862 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
1863
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1864- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
1865 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
1866 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
1867 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
1868
95bba8b6
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1869- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
1870 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
1871 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
9a111ee8 1872 was always properly set.
95bba8b6 1873
adbef119 1874 Changes since 4.1.0b1
ebf076fe
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1875
1876- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
1877 be recognized.
61d75ea2 1878
a4ffedd1
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1879 Changes since 4.1.0a2
1880
1881- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
1882 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
1883 "abandoned".
1884
6ff3b26d
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1885- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
1886
1387545f
DH
1887- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
1888 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
1889
1890- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
1891 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
1892
1893- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 1894 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 1895
399d3dbe
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1896- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
1897
fbcee149
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1898- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
1899 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
1900 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
1901 in future releases.
1902
f1672d89
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1903- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
1904 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
1905
236d3a99
DH
1906- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
1907 'dhclient -6' support.
1908
efa5e6b9
DH
1909- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1910 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1911 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1912 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1913
7d6180be 1914 Changes since 4.1.0a1
edcb5c46
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1915
1916- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1917
51e7687f
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1918- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1919
20210a7b
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1920- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1921 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1922 only the latter. Fixed.
1923
535485df
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1924- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1925
8fbb55ff
DH
1926- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1927 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1928
61220a00
EH
1929- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1930
c40e954c
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1931- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1932
63971a83
DH
1933- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1934 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1935 --enable-early-chroot.
1936
66cebfcb
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1937- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1938 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1939
f8cbf390
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1940- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1941 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1942 parameter.
1943
8269561d
DH
1944- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1945 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1946
b445a411
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1947- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1948 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1949
bd72740e
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1950- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1951
9322442f
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1952- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1953
8dea7ba7
FD
1954- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1955
4619c0a2
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1956- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1957
9ac4206a
DH
1958- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1959 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1960 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1961
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1962- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1963 support.
1964
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1965- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1966 repaired.
1967
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1968- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1969
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1970- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1971
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1972- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1973 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1974
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1975- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1976 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1977
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1978- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1979 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1980
1981- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1982 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1983 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1984 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1985 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1986 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1987 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1988 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1989 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1990 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1991 shared-network.
1992
1993- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1994 configured option values.
1995
1996- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1997 support class statements.
1998
adb95d23 1999- Compilation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
dd484ced
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2000 selection were repaired.
2001
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2002- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
2003 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
2004 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
2005 by the OS.
2006
2007- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
2008 address.
2009
2010- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
2011 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
2012
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2013- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
2014
2015- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
2016
2017- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
2018 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
2019
01a54c17 2020 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 2021
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2022- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
2023
4cafb815 2024- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 2025 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 2026
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2027- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
2028 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
2029 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
2030
9a111ee8 2031- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
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2032 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
2033
aabfa4de
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2034- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
2035
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2036- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
2037 reserved IDs avoided).
2038
b51c785f
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2039- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
2040
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2041- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
2042 carries a rapid-commit option.
2043
96b620e5
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2044- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
2045 an empty active lease.
2046
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FD
2047- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
2048
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EH
2049- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
2050 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
2051 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
2052 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
2053
adb95d23 2054- MINUS tokens should be parsable again.
01a54c17
EH
2055
2056- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
2057 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
2058 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
2059 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
2060 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
2061 Christof Chen.
2062
2063 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
2064
2065- DHCP now builds on AIX.
2066
2067- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
2068 config file but -6 is not specified.
2069
2070- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
2071
2072- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
2073 be more helpful.
2074
2075- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
2076 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
2077 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
2078
2079- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
2080 was repaired.
2081
2082- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
2083 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
2084 been repaired.
2085
2086- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
2087 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
2088 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
2089
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2090- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
2091 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
2092
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2093- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
2094 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
2095 IPv4 address.
2096
2c9bf1f4
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2097- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
2098 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
2099 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
2100 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
2101 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
2102
2103- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
2104 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
2105 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
2106
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2107- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
2108
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2109- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
2110
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2111- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
2112 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
2113 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
9a111ee8 2114 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
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2115 unnecessary logging.
2116
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2117- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
2118 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
2119
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2120- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
2121 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
2122 is incompatible is printed.
2123
2124- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
2125 a previously undefined option code.
2126
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2127- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
2128 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
2129
9a111ee8 2130- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
7e9f7a1b
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2131 than the year 2000.
2132
e2cfde76
FD
2133- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
2134
cabdb9b1
FD
2135- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
2136
5d89d60f
FD
2137- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
2138
61d75ea2
DH
2139 Changes since 4.0.0b3
2140
2141- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
2142 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
2143 configuration.
76db44f9 2144
e32529a5
EH
2145- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
2146 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
2147
9a111ee8 2148- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
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2149 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
2150 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 2151
9a111ee8
TM
2152- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
2153 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
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2154 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
2155 a requested address.
2156
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DH
2157- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
2158 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
2159 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
2160 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
2161
2162- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
2163 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
2164 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
2165 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
2166
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DH
2167- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
2168 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
2169 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
2170
c0216cb7
DH
2171- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
2172 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
2173
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FD
2174- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
2175
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2176- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
2177 codes through some conditions.
2178
c54db708
FD
2179- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
2180 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
2181
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DH
2182- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
2183 seemingly random values.
2184
821f2dda
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2185- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
2186
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2187- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
2188 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
2189 one ever has.
2190
9a111ee8
TM
2191- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
2192 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
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2193 to a REQUEST.
2194
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2195- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
2196 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
2197 level.
2198
e4a6be15
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2199 Changes since 4.0.0b2
2200
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2201- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
2202
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2203- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
2204 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
2205 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
2206 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
2207 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
2208
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DH
2209- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
2210 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
2211 new address.
2212
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2213 Changes since 4.0.0b1
2214
75135a3f 2215- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
adb95d23 2216 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protocols can be run
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2217 simultaneously on a single interface.
2218
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2219- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
2220 of service under unusual server configurations
2221
2222- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
2223
9a111ee8 2224- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
f765ec36 2225 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 2226
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2227- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
2228 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
2229 on every pool rebalance run.
2230
c71c6399
DH
2231- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
2232 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
2233
5279b8f3
DH
2234- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
2235 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
2236
ab3a540f 2237 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 2238
9a111ee8 2239- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
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2240 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
2241
fa9b593d
DH
2242- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
2243 point out the problem.
2244
9a111ee8 2245- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
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2246 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
2247 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
2248
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2249- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
2250 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
2251
eaf7eb17
DH
2252- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
2253 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
2254 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
2255
109e00db
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2256- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
2257
9a111ee8 2258- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
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2259 fixed by Marcus Goller.
2260
8eab95f2
DH
2261- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
2262 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
2263 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
2264 regardless of the existence of bindings.
2265
07b9a351
DH
2266- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
2267
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DH
2268- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
2269 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
2270 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
2271 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
2272 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
2273
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DH
2274- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
2275
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2276 Changes since 4.0.0a2
2277
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2278- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
2279 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
2280
763cba6b 2281- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 2282
237f8d3a 2283- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
9a111ee8 2284 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
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2285 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
2286
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2287- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
2288
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2289- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
2290 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
2291
8dfd5744
DH
2292- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
2293 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
2294 loaded from persistent storage.
2295
45d545f0 2296- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
DH
2297 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
2298 necessary.
2299
9a111ee8
TM
2300- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
2301 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
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2302 rapid-commit option.
2303
845e9677
DH
2304- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
2305 non-128-bits in length were removed.
2306
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2307 Changes since 4.0.0a1
2308
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2309- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
2310 and fix.
2311
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2312- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
2313
bda33169
SK
2314- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
2315
9b21e73e
SK
2316- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
2317 for when loading configuration.
2318
8da06bb1
DH
2319- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
2320 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
2321 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
2322
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DH
2323- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
2324 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
2325 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
2326 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
2327
76c944da
SK
2328- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
2329
f796f70a
DH
2330- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
2331 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 2332
c11f349d
EH
2333- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
2334
af5fa176
EH
2335- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
2336
2337- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
2338 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
2339
a546f2a7
EH
2340- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
2341 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
2342
b55d0d5f
EH
2343- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
2344
26be82af
DH
2345- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
2346 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
2347
98bd7ca0
DH
2348 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
2349
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2350- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
2351
8c1752d2
DH
2352- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
2353 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
2354
98bd7ca0
DH
2355- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
2356
a512d11b
DH
2357- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
2358 initialized.
2359
2360- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
2361
2362- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
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2363 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
2364
2365- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 2366
4ba58919
DH
2367- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
2368
2369- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
2370 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
2371
2372- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
2373
8ea19a71 2374- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 2375 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
DH
2376
2377- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
2378 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
2379
2cf8d0bd
DH
2380- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
2381
2382- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
2383
fe5b0fdd
DH
2384- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
2385
98bd7ca0
DH
2386 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
2387
2388- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
2389 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
2390 no support currently for both.
2391
2392- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
2393 IAADDR option.
2394
2395- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
2396 options.
2397
2398- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
2399
2400- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
2401 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
2402
2403- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
2404 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
2405 specifying type 1 or type 2).
2406
2407- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
2408 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
2409
2410- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
2411 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
2412 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
2413 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
2414 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
2415 differently, they both use the same code here).
2416
2417- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
2418 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
2419 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
2420
2421- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
2422
2423- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
2424 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
2425 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
2426 it should not intercept.
2427
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DH
2428 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
2429
2430- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
2431 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
2432 between primary and secondary.
2433
2434- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
2435 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
2436 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
2437
aa3e348e
DH
2438- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
2439
e9c59645
DH
2440- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
2441 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
2442 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
2443 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
2444 or REQUEST messages.
2445
2446- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
2447 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
2448
c104546d
DH
2449- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
2450
b9d0cc05
DH
2451 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
2452
adb95d23 2453- The parse warning that 'deny dynamic bootp;' must be configured for
b9d0cc05
DH
2454 failover protected subnets was removed.
2455
a512cc3a
DH
2456 Changes since 3.1.0b2
2457
2458- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
2459 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
2460 odd number of leases).
2461
2462- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
2463 rebalance run, and one after.
2464
2465- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
2466 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
2467 processing these messages.
2468
fe5b0fdd 2469 Changes since 3.1.0b1
27837f95 2470
74dc3e0b
EH
2471- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
2472 objects.
2473
1ba87b37
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2474- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
2475 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
2476 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
2477 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
2478 at Allianz.
2479
a58da042
EH
2480- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
2481 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
2482
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2483- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
2484 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
2485
27837f95
DH
2486- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
2487 caused the server to abort.
2488
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2489- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
2490 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
2491 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
2492
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2493- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
2494 by empty spaces would not get included.
2495
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2496- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
2497 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
2498
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2499- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
2500 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
2501
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2502- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
2503 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
2504
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2505- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
2506 on the parameter request list.
2507
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2508 Changes since 3.1.0a3
2509
2510- Some spelling fixes.
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2512 Changes since 3.1.0a2
2513
2514- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
2515 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
2516
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2517- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
2518 domain-search option syntax.
2519
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2520 Changes since 3.1.0a1
2521
2522- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
2523 hash table was repaired.
2524
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2525- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
2526 entering normal state.
2527
2528- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
2529 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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2530 'xid mismatch' log messages.
2531
2532- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
2533 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
616d67cb 2534
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2535- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
2536 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
2537 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
2538 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
2539
45d545f0 2540- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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2541 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
2542 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
2543 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
2544 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
2545 to their needs.
2546
2547- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
2548 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
2549 run will attempt balance.
2550
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2551- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
2552
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2553 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
2554
2555- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
2556 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
2557 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
2558 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
2559
98bd7ca0 2560- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 2561 was introduced.
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2562
2563- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
2564 via OMAPI.
2565
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2566- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
2567 the protocol draft.
2568
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2569- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
2570 one does not already exist on the system.
2571
b43c87ad 2572- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 2573
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2574- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
2575 matches RFC 3074.
2576
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2577- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
2578 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 2579 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2727c1cf 2580
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2581- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
2582 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 2583 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
febbd402 2584
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2585- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
2586 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
2587 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
2588 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
2589
2590- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
2591 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
2592 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
2593 priority over the client's parameter request list.
2594
f7fdb216 2595- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 2596 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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2597 DHCPv6 support.
2598
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2599- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
2600 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
2601 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
2602
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2603- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
2604 have been incorporated.
2605
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2606- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
2607 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
2608 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
2609 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
2610 that belong to the peer in need.
2611
2612- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
2613 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
2614
2615- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
2616 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
2617 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
2618
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2619- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
2620 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
2621
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2622- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
2623 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
2624 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
2625 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
2626 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
2627
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2628- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
2629 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
2630 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
2631 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
2632
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2633- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
2634 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
2635 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
2636 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
2637 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
2638 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
2639 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
2640 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
2641 ignoring this aspect of their request.
2642
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2643- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
2644 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
2645
41e45067 2646- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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2647 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
2648 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
2649 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
2650
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2651- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
2652 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
2653 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
2654 hardware and funding the development.
6d103865 2655
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2656- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
2657 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
2658 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
2659 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
2660 via Robin Breathe.
2661
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2662- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
2663 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
2664 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
2665 from Christof Chen.
2666
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2667- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
2668 formally supported.
2669
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2670 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
2671
2672- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
2673 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
2674
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2675 Changes since 3.0.5
2676
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2677- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
2678 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
2679 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 2680 they actually received.
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2681
2682- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
2683
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2684- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
2685 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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2686 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
2687 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
c1e6c832 2688
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2689- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
2690
d69fb6a8 2691- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 2692 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
d69fb6a8 2693
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2694- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
2695 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
2696 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
2697 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
2698 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
2699 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
2700 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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2701 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
2702
2703- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
2704 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
2705 'file' field.
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2707- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
2708 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
2709
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2710- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
2711 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
2712 a patch from Kevin Steves.
2713
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2714- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
2715 from Chris Wagner.
2716
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2717- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
2718 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
2719 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
2720
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2721- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
2722 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
2723 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
2724 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
2725 was set.
2726
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2727- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
2728 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
2729
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2730- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
2731 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
2732 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
2733 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
2734 active ones.
2735
02428754 2736 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 2737
901306d5 2738- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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2739 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
2740 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
2741 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
2742 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
2743
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2744- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
2745 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
2746
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2747 Changes since 3.0.4
2748
2749- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
2750 scopes are actually global has been added.
2751
2752- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
2753 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
2754 known to be damaging.
2755
2756- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
2757 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
2758 balancing).
2759
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2760- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
2761 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
2762 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
2763
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2764- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
2765 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
2766 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
2767
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2768- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
2769 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
2770 more clear now.
2771
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2772- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
2773 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
2774 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
2775 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
2776 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 2777 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
6cbc6629 2778
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2779- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
2780 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
2781
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2782- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
2783 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
2784 made possible.
2785
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2786- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
2787 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
2788 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
2789
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2790- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
2791 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
2792
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2793- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
2794 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
2795 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
2796
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2797- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
2798 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
2799 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
2800 value with the later configured value).
2801
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2802- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
2803 have been named and documented.
2804
2805- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
2806 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
2807 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
2808 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
2809 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
2810 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
2811 write new output.
2812
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2813 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
2814
2815- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
2816 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
2817
2818 Changes since 3.0.4b3
2819
2820- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
2821 mailing list.
2822
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2823 Changes since 3.0.4b2
2824
45d545f0 2825- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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2826 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
2827
2828- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
2829 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
2830
2831- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
2832 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
2833 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
2834 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
2835
2836- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
2837 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
2838 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
2839 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
2840 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
2841 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
2842 transition (properly).
2843
2844- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
2845
2846 Changes since 3.0.4b1
2847
2848- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
2849 STDIN after reading one line.
2850
2851- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
2852 descriptor it opened twice.
2853
2854- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
2855 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
2856 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
2857
2858 Changes since 3.0.3
2859
2860- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
2861 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
2862 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
2863
2864- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
2865 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
2866 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
2867
2868- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
2869 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 2870 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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2871 leases to allocate.
2872
2873- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 2874 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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2875 than the entire block of them.
2876
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2877! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
2878 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
2879 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
2880 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
2881 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
2882 to a patch from infamous42md.
2883
2884! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
2885 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
2886 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
2887 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
2888 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
2889 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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2890
2891- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
2892 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
2893 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
2894
2895- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 2896 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2897
2898- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
2899 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
2900 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
2901 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
2902 transitional states.
2903
2904- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
2905 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
2906 once it detects the old db does not exist.
2907
2908- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2909 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2910 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2911
2912- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2913 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2914
2915- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2916 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2917
2918- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2919 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2920 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2921
2922- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2923 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2924
2925- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2926 repaired.
2927
2928- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2929 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2930 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2931 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2932
2933- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2934 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2935 data.
2936
2937- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2938 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2939 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2940 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2941 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2942
2943- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2944 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2945 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2946 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2947 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2948
2949- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2950 has been repaired.
2951
2952- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2953 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2954 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2955 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2956 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2957
2958- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2959 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2960
45d545f0 2961- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2962 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2963 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2964 move to 3.[01].x.
2965
2966- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2967 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2968
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2969 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2970
2971- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2972 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2973
2974- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2975 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2976 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2977 workaround.
2978
2979 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2980
2981- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2982 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2983
2984 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2985
2986- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2987 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2988 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2989
2990- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2991 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2992 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2993
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2994 Changes since 3.0.2
2995
2996- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2997 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2998 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2999
3000- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
3001 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
3002 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
3003 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
3004 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
3005
3006- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
3007 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 3008 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3009
3010- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
3011 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 3012 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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3013
3014- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
3015 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
3016 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
3017 Peter Poeml.
3018
3019- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
3020 Dr. Peter Poeml.
3021
3022- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
3023 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
3024 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
3025 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
3026 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
3027 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
3028
3029- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
3030 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
3031 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
3032 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
3033
3034- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
3035 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
3036 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
3037 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
3038
3039- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
3040 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
3041
3042- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
3043 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
3044 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
3045
3046- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
3047 7 bytes, and failover.
3048
3049- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
3050 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 3051 at Red Hat.
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3052
3053- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
3054 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
3055 should work better.
3056
3057- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
3058 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
3059 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
3060
3061- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
3062 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
3063 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
3064
3065 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
3066
3067- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
3068 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
3069
3070 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
3071
45d545f0 3072- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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3073 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
3074 overloading. This was repaired.
3075
3076- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
3077 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
3078 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
3079 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
3080 three chunks to fit.
3081
3082- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
3083 were repaired.
3084
3085- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
3086 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
3087 leak).
3088
3089 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
3090
3091- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
3092 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
3093
3094 Changes since 3.0.2b1
3095
3096- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
3097
3098 Changes since 3.0.1
3099
3100- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
3101 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
3102 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
3103
3104- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
3105 name was not provided by the server.
3106
3107- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
3108 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
3109
3110- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
3111 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
3112
3113- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
3114 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
3115
3116- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
3117
3118- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
3119
3120- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
adb95d23 3121 previously were assumed to not include dynamic bootp clients are now
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3122 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
3123 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
3124 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
3125
3126- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
3127 the configuration be globally scoped.
3128
3129- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
3130 Farkas.
3131
3132- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
3133 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3134
3135- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
3136 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
3137
3138- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
3139 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
3140
3141- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
3142 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
3143 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
3144 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
3145
3146- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
3147 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
3148 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
3149 respond to POOLREQ messages.
3150
3151- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
3152 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
3153 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
3154
3155- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
3156
3157- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
3158 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
3159 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
3160
3161- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
3162 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
3163 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
3164 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
3165 Fjone and directconnect.no.
3166
3167- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
3168 to Andreas Gustafsson.
3169
3170- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
3171 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
3172
3173- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
3174 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
3175 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
3176 DISCOVER timeout handling.
3177
3178- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
3179 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
3180
3181- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
3182 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
3183 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
3184
3185- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
3186 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
3187 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
3188 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
3189 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
3190 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
3191
3192- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
3193 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
3194 Infoblox.
3195
3196- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
3197
3198- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
3199 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
3200 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
3201 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
3202 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
3203 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
3204 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
3205
3206- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
3207 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
3208 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
3209
3210- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
3211 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
3212 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
3213
3214- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
3215
3216 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
3217
3218- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
3219 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
3220 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
3221 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
3222 systems either.
3223
3224- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
3225
3226- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
3227 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
3228 is false.
3229
3230- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
3231 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
3232
3233- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
3234
3235 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
3236
3237! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
3238 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
3239 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
3240 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
3241 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
3242 both finding and solving the problem.
3243
3244! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 3245 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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3246 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
3247 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
3248 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
3249 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
3250 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
3251 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
3252 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
3253 published version of ISC DHCP.
3254
3255- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
3256
3257- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
3258
3259 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
3260
3261- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
3262 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
3263 Richard Hirst.
3264
3265- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
3266 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
3267 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
3268
3269- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
3270
3271- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
3272 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
3273 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
3274 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
3275
3276- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 3277 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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3278
3279- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
3280 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
3281
3282- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
3283
3284 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
3285
3286- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
3287 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
3288
3289- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
3290 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
3291 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
3292
3293- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
3294 by name was fixed.
3295
45d545f0 3296- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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3297 longer result in error.
3298
3299- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
3300
3301- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
3302 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
3303 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
3304
3305- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
3306 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
3307
3308- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
3309 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
3310 Blapp.
3311
3312- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
3313 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
3314 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
3315 Martin Blapp.
3316
3317- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
3318 expiry times in failover configurations.
3319
3320- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
3321 Steve G.
3322
3323- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
3324 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
3325
3326- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
3327 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
3328 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
3329 now "unknown-144".
3330
3331- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
3332 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
3333
3334 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
3335
3336- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
3337
3338- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
3339 not be bash.
3340
3341- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
3342
3343- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
3344 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
3345 that errored before will now work properly.
3346
3347- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
3348 names was repaired.
3349
3350- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
3351 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
3352 configuration file.
3353
3354- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
3355 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3356
3357- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
3358 error rather than a null dereference.
3359
3360 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
3361
3362- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
3363
3364- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
3365
3366- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
3367 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
3368
3369- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
3370
3371- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
3372
3373- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
3374 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
3375 self-corrupting lease databases.
3376
3377- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
3378
3379- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
3380 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
3381
3382- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
3383
3384- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
3385
3386- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
3387 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
3388 Ling Gou.
3389
3390- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
3391 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
3392
3393- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
3394 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
3395 Ted Lemon for the patch.
3396
3397- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
3398 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
3399
3400 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
3401
3402- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
3403 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
3404
3405- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
3406
3407- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
3408 a memory leak.
3409
3410- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
3411 script.
3412
3413- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
3414
3415- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
3416
3417- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
3418
3419- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
3420
3421- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
3422
3423- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
3424
3425- Increment the hop count when relaying.
3426
3427- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
3428
3429- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
3430
3431- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
3432
3433- Change the type of rbuf_max.
3434
3435- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
3436
3437 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
3438
3439- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
3440 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
3441 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
3442
3443 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
3444
3445- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
3446 to be renewed.
3447
3448- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
3449 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
3450
3451- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
3452 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
3453
3454- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
3455 that two permit lists matched.
3456
3457- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
3458 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
3459
3460- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
3461
3462- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
3463 requested it, contrary to the standard.
3464
3465- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
3466
3467- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
3468
3469- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
3470 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
3471 going to update its A record.
3472
3473- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
3474 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
3475 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
3476 DNS server.
3477
3478- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
3479
3480- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
3481
3482- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
3483 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
3484 NetBSD project).
3485
3486- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
3487 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
3488
3489- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
3490 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
3491
3492- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
3493
3494- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
3495
3496- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
3497 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
3498 failover protocol standard.
3499
3500- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
3501 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
3502 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
3503
3504- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
3505 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
3506 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
3507 do so.
3508
3509- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
3510
3511 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
3512
3513- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
3514
3515- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
3516 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
3517
3518- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
3519 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
3520
3521- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
3522 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
3523 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
3524
3525- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
3526 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
3527 network, merge the two pools.
3528
3529- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
3530 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
3531 fix this bug.
3532
3533 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
3534
3535- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
3536 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
3537
3538- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
3539 the same case.
3540
3541- Additional documentation.
3542
3543- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
3544 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
3545
3546 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
3547
3548- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
3549- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
3550
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3552
3553- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
3554 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
3555 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
3556 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
3557 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
3558
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3560
3561- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
3562 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
3563 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
3564 wasn't the one that removed it.
3565
3566- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
3567 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
3568 were not configured.
3569
3570- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
3571
3572- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
3573 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
3574 routing information.
3575
3576- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
3577 request being sent.
3578
3579- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
3580 done.
3581
3582- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
3583 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
3584 were pending.
3585
3586- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
3587 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
3588 problems with failover.
3589
3590- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
3591 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
3592 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
3593
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3595
3596- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
3597 smash in the subclass allocation code.
3598
3599- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
3600 no object is open, it dumps core.
3601
3602- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
3603
3604- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
3605
3606- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
3607
3608- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
3609 a host object attribute with a null value.
3610
3611 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
3612
3613- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
3614
3615- Fix an obscure core dump.
3616
3617- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
3618 when crucial information is left out.
3619
3620- Log "no free leases" as an error.
3621
3622- Documentation updates.
3623
3624 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
3625
3626- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
3627
3628- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
3629 structure wasn't zeroed.
3630
3631- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
3632 incorrectly.
3633
3634- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
3635 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
3636 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
3637 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
3638 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
3639 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
3640 restarted.
3641
3642 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
3643
3644- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
3645 in failover-enabled pools.
3646
3647- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
3648 declarations).
3649
3650- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
3651 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
3652
3653- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
3654 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
3655
3656- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
3657
3658- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
3659 defined but not referenced by any pools.
3660
3661- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
3662
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3663 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
3664
3665- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
3666
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3667 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
3668
3669- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
3670
3671- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
3672
3673- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
3674
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3675 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
3676
3677- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
3678 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
3679 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
3680
3681- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
3682 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
3683 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
3684 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
9a111ee8 3685 string.
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3686
3687- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
3688
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3689 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
3690
3691- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
3692 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
3693
3694- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
3695 malformed packets.
3696
3697- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
3698
3699- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
3700 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
3701 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
3702
3703- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
3704
3705- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
3706
3707- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
3708
3709- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
3710 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
3711
3712- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
3713 tcp connections from being played back.
3714
3715- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
3716 on exit.
3717
3718- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
3719
3720- Add some configurability to the build system.
3721
3722- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
3723
3724- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
3725 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
3726 hadn't been noticed until now.
3727
3728 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
3729
3730- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
3731 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
3732
3733- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
3734 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
3735 conformant, but also didn't work).
3736
3737- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
3738 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
3739
3740- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
3741 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
3742
3743- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
3744 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
3745
3746- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
3747 variables to leases via OMAPI.
3748
3749- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
3750 doing failover.
3751
3752- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
3753 running on alpha processors.
3754
3755- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
3756 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
3757
3758- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
3759
3760- Install omshell (including new documentation).
3761
3762- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
3763 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
3764
3765- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
3766
3767- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
3768 actually named (key names are domain names).
3769
3770- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
3771
3772- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
3773 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
3774
3775- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
3776 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
3777
3778- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
3779 statements.
3780
3781- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
3782 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
3783
3784- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
3785 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
3786 operating.
3787
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3788 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
3789
3790- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
3791 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
3792 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
3793 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
3794
3795- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
3796 using omapi to manipulate leases.
3797
3798- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
3799
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3800 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
3801
3802- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
3803 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
3804
3805- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
3806 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
3807 to the chain.
3808
3809- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
3810
3811- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
3812
3813- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
3814
98311e4b 3815- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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3816 attribute values in omshell.
3817
98311e4b 3818- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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3819
3820- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
3821
3822 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
3823
3824- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
3825 DHCPDECLINE.
3826
3827- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
3828
3829- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
3830 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
3831 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
3832
3833- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
3834
3835- Documentation fixes.
3836
3837- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
3838 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
3839
3840- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
3841 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
3842
3843- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
3844
3845- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
3846
3847- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
3848 case-insensitive.
3849
3850- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
3851
98311e4b 3852- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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3853 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
3854 consistently.
3855
3856- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
3857 systems with the probe not working correctly.
3858
3859- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
3860
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3861 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
3862
3863- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
3864 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
3865 result of duplicate leases.
3866
3867- Document OMAPI server objects.
3868
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3869 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
3870
3871- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
3872 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
3873
3874- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
3875 core dumps.
3876
3877- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
3878 Friedrich.
3879
3880- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
3881
3882 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
3883
3884- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
3885 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 3886 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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3887 billing class code.
3888
3889- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
3890 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
3891
3892- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
3893 trace file.
3894
79ea3de8 3895 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
87784777 3896
79ea3de8
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3897- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
3898 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
3899 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
3900 e.g., Digital Unix.
3901
3902- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
3903 when no error had occurred.
3904
3905- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
3906 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
3907 non-communicating state.
3908
3909- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3910
3911- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3912 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3913 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3914
3915- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3916 when the client lease expired.
3917
3918- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3919 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3920 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3921 in testing.
3922
3923- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3924 the command line, it would fail.
3925
3926- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3927 user impact).
3928
3929- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3930
3931- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3932 they're executable.
3933
3934 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3935
3936- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3937 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3938 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3939 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3940
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3941- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3942 Transmeta.
3943
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3944- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3945 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3946 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3947 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3948
3949- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3950 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3951
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3952 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3953
3954- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3955 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3956
3957- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3958
3959- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3960
3961- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3962
3963- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3964
3965- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3966
3967- Update some parts of the README file.
3968
3969- Support GCC on SCO.
3970
adbef119 3971 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 23
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3972
3973- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3974 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3975
3976- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3977 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3978 unbill the old class.
3979
3980- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3981 process the state transition immediately.
3982
3983- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3984 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3985
3986- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3987
3988- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3989
3990- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3991
3992- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3993
3994- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3995 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3996 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3997
3998- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3999 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
4000
4001- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
4002 lease file.
4003
4004- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
4005
4006- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 4007
adbef119 4008 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 22
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4009
4010- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
4011 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
4012
4013- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
4014
adbef119 4015 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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4016
4017- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
4018
adbef119 4019 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 20
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4020
4021- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
4022
4023- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
4024 pl19.
4025
4026- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
4027 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
4028 past the regression test.
4029
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4031
4032- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
4033 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
4034
4035- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
4036 DHCPREQUEST.
4037
4038- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
4039
4040- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
4041
4042- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
4043
adbef119 4044 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
b3fad8ac 4045
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4046- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
4047 (Damien Neil)
4048
4049- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
4050 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
4051
4052- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
4053 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
4054 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
4055
4056- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
4057 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
4058 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
4059 message.
4060
4061- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
4062 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
4063 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
4064
98311e4b 4065- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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4066 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
4067 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
4068 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
4069 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
4070 this way will work.
4071
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4072- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
4073
4074- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
4075 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
4076 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
4077 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
4078
4079 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
4080
4081 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
4082
4083- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
4084 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
4085 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
4086
4087- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
4088 Hermann Lauer.
4089
4090- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
4091 messages.
4092
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4093- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
4094 it contained quoted strings.
4095
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4096 ** there was no pl17 **
4097
adbef119 4098 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 16
e6d30fd6 4099
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4100- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
4101 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
4102 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
4103 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
4104 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
4105 tracking down memory leaks.
4106
4107- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
4108 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
4109 Solaris.
4110
4111- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
4112 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
4113 corruption and core dumps.
4114
4115- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
4116 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
4117
4118- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
4119
4120- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
4121 and implemented by Damien Neil.
4122
4123- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
4124 name and version to standard output.
4125
4126- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
4127
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4128- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
4129 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
4130
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4131- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
4132
4133- Lots of documentation updates.
4134
4135- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
4136 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
4137
4138- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
4139
4140- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
4141 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
4142
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4144
4145- Some documentation tweaks.
4146
4147- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
4148
4149- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
4150
4151- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
4152 agent options into them.
4153
4154- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
4155
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4156- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
4157 options.
4158
adbef119 4159 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 14
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4160
4161- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
4162 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
4163 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
4164 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
4165 used in class statements to control address allocation.
4166
4167- Fix up documentation.
4168
4169- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
4170 significantly in a high-demand situation.
4171
4172- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
4173
4174- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
4175
4176- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
4177 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
4178 practical use otherwise.
4179
4180- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
4181 for debugging.
4182
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4184
4185- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
4186 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
4187 dump on some systems.
4188
4189- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
4190 option.
4191
4192- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
4193 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
4194
4195- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
4196 that were not printing enough information.
4197
4198- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
4199 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
4200
4201- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
4202 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
4203 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
4204 were answering.
4205
4206- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
4207 the transition.
9a111ee8 4208
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4211
4212- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
4213
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4214 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
4215
4216- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
4217 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
4218 representation from working correctly.
4219
4220- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
4221 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
4222 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
4223 could spin.
4224
4225- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
4226 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
4227
4228- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
4229 interface name on the command line.
4230
4231- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
4232 client state.
4233
4234- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
4235 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
4236 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
4237 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
4238 added by Ted Lemon.
4239
4240- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
4241 be made to log debugging information and other information.
4242
4243- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
4244 end option.
4245
4246- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
4247 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
4248 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
4249
4250- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
4251 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
4252 face of a null hardware address on input.
4253
4254- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
4255 specified unqualified.
4256
4257- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
4258 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
4259
4260- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
4261 RFC.
4262
4263- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
4264
4265- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
4266
4267- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
4268 it works.
4269
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4270 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
4271
4272- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
4273 to CVS.
4274
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4275 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
4276
4277- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
4278
4279- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
4280 in patchlevel 9.
4281
4282- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
4283 options at renewal time.
4284
4285- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
4286 configuration language.
4287
4288- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
4289
4290- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
4291 done when no client hostname was received.
4292
4293- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
4294
4295- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
4296 the DHCP option space.
4297
4298- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
4299
4300- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
4301 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
4302
4303- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
4304 silently dropped.
4305
4306- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
4307 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
4308
4309- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
4310 will be correctly updated.
4311
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4312 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
4313
4314- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
4315 bounds-checking.
4316
4317 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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4318
4319- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
4320
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4323- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
4324 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
4325 possible to exploit it any further than that.
4326
4327- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
4328 option.
4329
4330- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
4331 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
4332 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
4333 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
4334 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
4335 meaningfully.
4336
4337- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
4338 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
4339 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
4340
4341- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
4342 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
4343 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
4344 this one down!
4345
4346- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
4347 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
4348 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
4349 down and fixing this problem.
4350
4351 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
4352
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4353- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
4354 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
4355
4356- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
4357 environment.
4358
4359- Fix suffix operator.
4360
4361- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
4362
4363- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
4364 connection code.
4365
4366- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
4367
4368- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
4369
4370- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
4371 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
4372
4373- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
4374
4375- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
4376
4377- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
4378 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
4379
4380- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
4381 spawn with.
4382
4383- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
4384 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
4385
4386- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
4387 for OMAPI.
4388
4389- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
4390 can install in host declarations.
4391
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4392 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
4393
4394- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
4395 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
4396 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
4397 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
4398 comments)!
4399
4400- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
4401
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4402- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
4403 request for help on this with patches!
4404
4405- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
4406 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
4407 lost, they never reconnect.
4408
4409- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
4410 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
4411
4412- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
4413 dump.
4414
4415- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
4416 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
4417 catching this one.
4418
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4419 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
4420
4421- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 4422 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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4423 lease renewal time.
4424
4425- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
4426 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
4427 declared without a key.
4428
4429- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
4430
4431- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
4432 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
4433
4434- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
4435 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
4436 determine the maximum size of the response.
4437
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4438 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
4439
359b023e
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4440- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
4441 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
4442
592d8153
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4443- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
4444 RENEWING client.
4445
4446- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
4447
4448- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
4449 using memcmp().
4450
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4451 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
4452
4453- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
4454 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
4455 pointing this out.
4456
4457- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
4458 exit.
4459
4460- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
4461
4462- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
4463 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.