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98311e4b 1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
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2 Version 4.3.0-Pre-Beta
3 XX Month 2013
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0171be2d 5 Release Notes
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0171be2d 7 NEW FEATURES
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9ISC DHCP 4.2.x includes features that were not included in DHCP 4.1.x.
10These include:
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98bf1607 12Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 13The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
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14awaiting replies from the DNS server.
15
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16There are a number of DHCPv6 limitations and features missing in this
17release, which will be addressed in the future:
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01a54c17 19- Only Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are supported.
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21- DHCPv6 includes human-readable text in status code messages, in
22 English. A method to reconfigure or support other languages would
23 be preferrable.
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24
25- The "host-identifier" option is limited to a simple token.
26
98bd7ca0 27- The client and server can only operate DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 at a time,
45d545f0 28 not both. To use both protocols simultaneously, two instances of the
6de1f33e 29 relevant daemon are required, one with the '-6' command line option.
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31For information on how to install, configure and run this software, as
32well as how to find documentation and report bugs, please consult the
33README file.
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35ISC DHCP uses standard GNU configure for installation. Please review the
36output of "./configure --help" to see what options are available.
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38The system has only been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and may not
39work on other platforms. Please report any problems and suggested fixes to
40<dhcp-users@isc.org>.
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6980ae03 42 Changes since 4.2.0 (new features)
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44- If a client renews before 'dhcp-cache-threshold' percent of its lease
45 has elapsed (default 25%), the server will reuse the allocated lease
46 (provide a lease within the currently allocated lease-time) rather
47 than extend or renew the lease. This absolves the server of needing
48 to perform an fsync() operation on the lease database before reply,
49 which improves performance. [ISC-Bugs #22228]
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50 Update this patch to support asynchronous DDNS. If the server is
51 attempting to do DDNS on a lease it should be udpated and written to
52 disk even if that wouldn't be necessary due to the thresholding
53 [ISC-Bugs #26311]
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55- The 'no available billing' log line now also logs the name of the last
56 matching billing class tried before failing to provide a billing.
57 [ISC-Bugs #21759]
58
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59- A problem with missing get_hw_addr function when --enable-use-sockets
60 was used is now solved on GNU/Linux, BSD and GNU/Hurd systems. Note
61 that use-sockets feature was not tested on those systems. Client and
62 server code no longer use MAX_PATH constant that is not defined on
63 GNU/Hurd systems. [ISC-Bugs 25979]
64
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65- Add a perl script in the contrib directory, dhcp-lease-list.pl, which
66 can parse v4 lease files and output the lease information in a more
67 human friendly manner. This was written by Christian Hammers with
68 some updates by vom and ISC. This is contributed code and is not
69 supported by ISC; however it may be useful to some users.
70 [ISC-Bugs #20680]
71
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72- Add support in v6 for on-commit, on-expire and on-release.
73 [ISC-Bugs #27912
74
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75- Add support for using classes with v6.
76 [ISC-Bugs #26510]
77
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78 Changes since 4.2.5
79
d0a10f6a 80- Address static analysis warnings.
9626483b 81 [ISC-Bugs #33510] [ISC-Bugs #33511]
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83- Silence benign static analysis warnings.
84 [ISC-Bugs #33428]
85
c5bc8b1a 86- Add check for 64-bit package for atf.
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87 [ISC-Bugs #32206]
88
89- Use newer auto* tool packages and turn on RFC_3542 support on Mac OS.
90 [ISC-Bugs #26303]
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92- Remove a variable when it isn't being used due to #ifdefs to avoid
93 a compiler warning on Solaris using GCC.
94 [ISC-Bugs #33032]
95
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96- Add a check for too much whitespace in a config or lease file.
97 Thanks to Paolo Pellegrino for finding the issue and a suggestion
98 for the patch.
99 [ISC-Bugs #33351]
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101- Fix several problems with using OMAPI to manipulate class and subclass
102 objects.
103 [ISC-Bugs #27452]
104
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105- Added a sleep call after killing the old client to allow time
106 for the sockets to be cleaned. This should allow the -r option
107 to work more consistently.
108 [ISC-Bugs #18175]
109
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110 Changes since 4.2.4
111
112- Correct code to calculate timing values in client to compare
113 rebind value to infinity instead of renew value.
114 Thanks to Chenda Huang from H3C Technologies Co., Limited
115 for reporting this issue.
116 [ISC-Bugs #29062]
117
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118- Fix some issues in the code for parsing and printing options.
119 [ISC-Bugs #22625] - properly print options that have several fields
120 followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
121 [ISC-Bugs #27289] - properly parse options in declarations that have
122 several fields followed by an array of something for example "fIa"
123 [ISC-Bugs #27296] - properly determine if we parsed a 16 or 32 bit
124 value in evaluate_numeric_expression (extract-int).
125 [ISC-Bugs #27314] - properly parse a zero length option from
126 a lease file. Thanks to Marius Tomaschewski from SUSE for the report
127 and prototype patch for this ticket as well as ticket 27289.
128
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129! Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero
130 length client ids to be processed. Under some situations use of
131 zero length client ids can cause the server to go into an infinite
132 loop. As such ids are not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14
133 the server no longer accepts them. Client ids with a length of 1
134 are also invalid but the server still accepts them in order to
135 minimize disruption. The restriction will likely be tightened in
136 the future to disallow ids with a length of 1.
137 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
138 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
139 [ISC-Bugs #29851]
140 CVE: CVE-2012-3571
141
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142! When attempting to convert a DUID from a client id option
143 into a hardware address handle unexpected client ids properly.
144 Thanks to Markus Hietava of Codenomicon CROSS project for the
145 finding this issue and CERT-FI for vulnerability coordination.
146 [ISC-Bugs #29852]
147 CVE: CVE-2012-3570
148
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149! A pair of memory leaks were found and fixed. Thanks to
150 Glen Eustace of Massey University, New Zealand for finding
151 this issue.
152 [ISC-Bugs #30024]
df2c355e 153 CVE: CVE-2012-3954
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155- Existing legacy unit-tests have been migrated to Automated Test
156 Framework (ATF). Several new tests have been developed. To enable
157 unit-tests, please use --with-atf in configure script. A Developer's
158 Guide has been added. To generate it, please use make devel in
159 the doc directory. It is currently in early stages of development,
160 but is expected to grow in the near future. [ISC-Bugs 25901]
161
0b2ec8c9 162! An issue with the use of lease times was found and fixed. Making
03b44855 163 certain changes to the end time of an IPv6 lease could cause the
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164 server to abort. Thanks to Glen Eustace of Massey University,
165 New Zealand for finding this issue.
166 [ISC-Bugs #30281]
167 CVE: CVE-2012-3955
168
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169- Update the memory leakage debug code to work with v6.
170 [ISC-Bugs #30297]
171
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172- Relax the requirements for deleting an A or AAAA record.
173 Previously the DDNS removal code required both the A or AAAA
174 record and the TXT record to exist. This requirement could
175 cause problems if something interrupted the removal leaving
176 the TXT record alone. This relaxation was codified in RFC 4703.
177 [ISC-Bugs #30734]
178
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179- Modify the failover code to handle incorrect peer names
180 better. Previously the structure holding the name might
181 have been freed inappropriately in some cases and not
182 freed in other cases.
183 [ISC-Bugs #30320]
184
d5d868e7 185- Add a configure option, enable-secs-byteorder, to deal with
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186 clients that do the byte ordering on the secs field incorrectly.
187 This field should be in network byte order but some clients
188 get it wrong. When this option is enabled the server will examine
189 the secs field and if it looks wrong (high byte non zero and low
190 byte zero) swap the bytes. The default is disabled. This option
191 is only useful when doing load balancing within failover.
192 [ISC-Bugs #26108]
193
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194- Fix a set of issues that were discovered via a code inspection
195 tool. Thanks to Jiri Popelka and Tomas Hozza Red Hat for the logs
196 and patches.
197 [ISC-Bugs #23833]
198
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199- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
200 strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
201
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202- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
203 server-identifier option to use for the NAK.
204 [ISC-Bugs #25689]
205
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206- The client now passes information about the options it requested
207 from the server to the script code via environment variables.
208 These variables are of the form requested_<option_name>=1 with
209 the option name being the same as used in the new_* and old_*
210 variables.
3aa562f8 211 [ISC-Bugs #29068]
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213- Add support for a simple check that the server id in a request message
214 to a failover peer matches the server id of the server. This support
215 is enabled by editing the file includes/site.h and uncommenting the
216 definition for SERVER_ID_CHECK. The option has several restrictions
217 and issues - please read the comment in the site.h file before
218 enabling it.
219 [ISC-Bugs #31463]
220
d5d868e7 221- Tidy up some compiler issues in the debug code.
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222 [ISC-Bugs #26460]
223
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224- Move the dhcpd.conf exmample file to dhcpd.conf.example to avoid
225 overwriting the dhcpd.conf file when installing a new version of
226 ISC DHCP. The user will now need to manual copy and edit the
227 dhcpd.conf file as desired.
228 [ISC-Bugs #19337]
229
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230- Check the status value when trying to read from a connection to
231 see if it may have been closed. If it appears closed don't try
232 to read from it again. This avoids a potential busy-wait like
233 loop when the peer names are mismatched.
234 [ISC-Bugs #31231]
235
d5d868e7 236- Remove an unused variable to keep compilers happy.
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237 [ISC-Bugs #31983]
238
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239- Modify test makefiles to be more similar to standard makefiles
240 and comment out a currently unused test.
56c0e681 241 [ISC-Bugs #32089]
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243 Changes since 4.2.3
244
245! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
dc6908b4 246 Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
b95f1ee0 247 a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
317d1182 248 Thanks to a report from BlueCat Networks.
b95f1ee0 249 [ISC-Bugs #26704].
846af1cd 250 CVE: CVE-2011-4539
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252! Modify the DDNS handling code. In a previous patch we added logging
253 code to the DDNS handling. This code included a bug that caused it
254 to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and eventually segfault.
255 While reviewing the code as we addressed this problem, we determined
256 that some of the updates to the lease structures would not work as
257 planned since the structures being updated were in the process of
258 being freed: these updates were removed. In addition we removed an
259 incorrect call to the DDNS removal function that could cause a failure
260 during the removal of DDNS information from the DNS server.
261 Thanks to Jasper Jongmans for reporting this issue.
262 [ISC-Bugs #27078]
263 CVE: CVE-2011-4868
264
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265- Fixed the code that checks if an address the server is planning
266 to hand out is in a reserved range. This would appear as
267 the server being out of addresses in pools with particular ranges.
268 [ISC-Bugs #26498]
269
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270- In the DDNS code handle error conditions more gracefully and add more
271 logging code. The major change is to handle unexpected cancel events
272 from the DNS client code.
cfc49463 273 [ISC-Bugs #26287]
87132514 274
cfc49463 275- Tidy up the receive calls and eliminate the need for found_pkt.
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276 [ISC-Bugs #25066]
277
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278- Add support for Infiniband over sockets to the server and
279 relay code. We've tested this on Solaris and hope to expand
280 support for Infiniband in the future. This patch also corrects
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281 some issues we found in the socket code.
282 [ISC-Bugs #24245]
b047bd38 283
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284- Add a compile time check for the presence of the noreturn attribute
285 and use it for log_fatal if it's available. This will help code
286 checking programs to eliminate false positives.
d13db163 287 [ISC-Bugs #27539]
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289- Fixed many compilation problems ("set, but not used" warnings) for
290 gcc 4.6 that may affect Ubuntu 11.10 users. [ISC-Bugs #27588]
291
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292- Modify the code that determines if an outstanding DDNS request
293 should be cancelled. This patch results in cancelling the
294 outstanding request less often. It fixes the problem caused
cfc49463 295 by a client doing a release where the TXT and PTR records
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296 weren't removed from the DNS.
297 [ISC-BUGS #27858]
298
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299- Use offsetof() instead of sizeof() to get the sizes for dhcpv6_relay_packet
300 and dhcpv6_packet in several more places. Thanks to a report from
301 Bruno Verstuyft and Vincent Demaertelaere of Excentis.
302 [ISC-Bugs #27941]
303
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304- Remove outdated note in the description of the bootp keyword about the
305 option not satisfying the requirement of failover peers for denying
306 dynamic bootp clients.
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307 [ISC-bugs #28574]
308
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309- Multiple items to clean up IPv6 address processing.
310 When processing an IA that we've seen check to see if the
311 addresses are usable (not in use by somebody else) before
312 handing it out.
313 When reading in leases from the file discard expired addresses.
314 When picking an address for a client include the IA ID in
315 addition to the client ID to generally pick different addresses
316 for different IAs.
317 [ISC-Bugs #23138] [ISC-Bugs #27945] [ISC-Bugs #25586]
318 [ISC-Bugs #27684]
319
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320- Remove unnecessary checks in the lease query code and clean up
321 several compiler issues (some dereferences of NULL and treating
322 an int as a boolean).
323 [ISC-Bugs #26203]
324
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325- Fix the NA and PD allocation code to handle the case where a client
326 provides a preference and the server doesn't have any addresses or
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327 prefixes available. Previously the server ignored the request with
328 this patch it replies with a NoAddrsAvail or NoPrefixAvail response.
d19fa5a1 329 By default the code performs according to the errata of August 2010
53394a8d 330 for RFC 3315 section 17.2.2; to enable the previous style see the
cfc49463 331 section on RFC3315_PRE_ERRATA_2010_08 in includes/site.h. This option
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332 may be removed in the future.
333 Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat for the patch.
334 [ISC-Bugs #22676]
335
cfc49463 336- Fix up some issues found by static analysis.
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337 A potential memory leak and NULL dereference in omapi.
338 The use of a boolean test instead of a bitwise test in dst.
339 [ISC-Bugs #28941]
340
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341- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
342 Thanks to Christoph Moench-Tegeder at Astaro for the
343 report and the first version of the patch.
344 [ISC-Bugs #24887]
345
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346 Changes since 4.2.2
347
348- Fix the code that checks for an existing DDNS transaction to cancel
349 when removing DDNS information, so that we will continue with the
350 processing if we have a lease even if it doesn't have an outstanding
351 transaction. [ISC-Bugs #24682]
352
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353- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
354 configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
355
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356- Add support for passing DDNS information to a DNS server over
357 an IPv6 address. [ISC-Bugs #22647]
358
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359- Enhanced patch for 23595 to handle IPv4 fixed addresses more
360 cleanly. [ISC-Bugs #23595]
361
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362 Changes since 4.2.1
363
364! In dhclient check the data for some string options for
365 reasonableness before passing it along to the script that
366 interfaces with the OS.
367 [ISC-Bugs #23722]
368 CVE: CVE-2011-0997
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370- DHCPv6 server now responds properly if client asks for a prefix that
371 is already assigned to a different client. [ISC-Bugs #23948]
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373- Add the option "--no-pid" to the client, relay and server code,
374 to disable writing a pid file. Add the option "-pf pidfile"
375 to the relay to allow the user to supply the pidfile name at
376 runtime. Add the "with-relay6-pid-file" option to configure
377 to allow the user to supply the pidfile name for the relay
378 in v6 mode at configure time.
379 [ISC-Bugs #23351] [ISC-Bugs #17541]
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381- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
382 begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
383 implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. The goal of this change
73c83820 384 is to start up faster. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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386- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
387 before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
388 versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
389 may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
73c83820 390 [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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392- ICMP ping-check should now sit closer to precisely the number of seconds
393 configured (or default 1), due to making use of the new microsecond
394 scale timer internally to dhcpd. This corrects a bug where the server
395 may immediately timeout an ICMP ping-check if it was made late in the
73c83820 396 current second. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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398- The DHCP client will schedule renewal and rebinding events in
399 microseconds if the DHCP server provided a lease-time that would result
400 in sub-1-second timers. This corrects a bug where a 2-second or lower
401 lease-time would cause the DHCP client to enter an infinite loop by
73c83820 402 scheduling renewal at zero seconds. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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404- Client lease records are recorded at most once every 15 seconds. This
405 keeps the client from filling the lease database disk quickly on very small
73c83820 406 lease times. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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408- To defend against RFC 2131 non-compliant DHCP servers which fail to
409 advertise a lease-time (either mangled, or zero in value) the DHCP
410 client now adds the server to the reject list ACL and returns to INIT
411 state to hopefully find an RFC 2131 compliant server (or retry in INIT
73c83820 412 forever). [ISC-Bugs #19660]
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414- Parameters configured to evaluate from user defined function calls can
415 now be correctly written to dhcpd.leases (as on 'on events' or dynamic
416 host records inserted via OMAPI). [ISC-Bugs #22266]
417
418- If a 'next-server' parameter is configured in a dynamic host record via
419 OMAPI as a domain name, the syntax written to disk is now correctly parsed
420 upon restart. [ISC-Bugs #22266]
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422- The DHCP server now responds to DHCPLEASEQUERY messages from agents using
423 IP addresses not covered by a subnet in configuration. Whether or not to
424 respond to such an agent is still governed by the 'allow leasequery;'
425 configuration parameter, in the case of an agent not covered by a configured
426 subnet the root configuration area is examined. Server now also returns
427 vendor-class-id option, if client sent it. [ISC-Bugs #21094]
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430 [ISC-Bugs #17959] add text to AIX section describing how to have it send
431 responses to the all-ones address.
432 [ISC-Bugs #19615] update the includes in dhcpctl/dhcpctl.3 to be more correct
433 [ISC-Bugs #20676] update dhcpd.conf.5 to include the RFC numbers for DDNS
434
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435- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface without
436 any IPv4 address assigned. Also extended logging message about discarding
437 packets with invalid hlen with information about relevant interface name.
438 [ISC-Bugs #22409]
439
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440- Relay now properly logs that packet was received over interface without
441 global IPv6 address [ISC-Bugs #24070]
442
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443- Linux Packet Filter interface improvement. sockaddr_pkt structure is used,
444 rather than sockaddr. Packet ethertype is now forced to ETH_P_IP.
445 [ISC-Bugs #18975]
446
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447- Minor code cleanups - but note port change for #23196
448 [ISC-Bugs #23470] - Modify when an ignore return macro is defined to
449 handle unsed error return warnings for more versions of gcc.
450 [ISC-Bugs #23196] - Modify the reply handling in the server code to
451 send to a specified port rather than to the source port for the incoming
452 message. Sending to the source port was test code that should have
453 been removed. The previous functionality may be restored by defining
454 REPLY_TO_SOURCE_PORT in the includes/site.h file. We suggest you don't
455 enable this except for testing purposes.
456 [ISC-Bugs #22695] - Close a file descriptor in an error path.
457 [ISC-Bugs #19368] - Tidy up variable types in validate_port.
458
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459- Code cleanup: remove obsolete PROTO, KandR, INLINE and ANSI_DECL macros
460 [ISC-Bugs #13151]
461
462- Compilation problem with gcc4.5 and omshell.c resolved. [ISC-Bugs #23831]
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464- Client Script fixes
465 [ISC-Bugs #23045] Typos in client/scripts/openbsd
466 [ISC-Bugs #23565] In the client scripts add a zone id (interface id) if
467 the domain search address is link local.
468 [ISC-Bugs #1277] In some of the client scripts add code to handle the
469 case of the default router information being changed without the address
470 being changed.
471
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472- Documentation cleanup
473 [ISC-Bugs #23326] Updated References document, several man page updates
474
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475- Server no longer complains about NULL pointer when configured
476 server-identifier expression fails to evaluate. [ISC-Bugs #24547]
477
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478- Convert ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to ISC_R_SUCCESS when called from other
479 than the dispatch handler. This fixes an issue where omshell, when
480 run from the same platform as the server, would appear to fail to
481 connect. This is a companion to #21839. [ISC-Bugs #23592]
482
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483- Enlarge the buffer size used by the Omshell code and some of the
484 print routines to allow for greater than 60 characters or, when
485 printing as hex strings, 20 characters. [ISC-Bugs #22743]
486
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487- In Solaris 11 switch to using sockets instead of DLPI, thanks
488 to a patch form Oracle. [ISC-Bugs #24634].
489
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490- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
491 configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
492 to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
493 now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
494 See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
495 [ISC-Bugs #24167]
496
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497- DNS Update fix. A misconfigured server could crash during DNS update
498 processing if the configuration included overlapping pools or
499 multiple fixed-address entries for a single address. This issue
500 affected both IPv4 and IPv6. The fix allows a server to detect such
501 conditions, provides the user with extra information and recommended
502 steps to fix the problem. If the user enables the appropriate option
503 in site.h then server will be terminated
504 [ISC-Bugs #23595]
505
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506! Two packets were found that cause a server to halt. The code
507 has been updated to properly process or reject the packets as
508 appropriate. Thanks to David Zych at University of Illinois
509 for reporting this issue. [ISC-Bugs #24960]
510 One CVE number for each class of packet.
511 CVE-2011-2748
512 CVE-2011-2749
513
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514 Changes since 4.2.0
515
516- Documentation cleanup covering multiple tickets
517 [ISC-Bugs #20265] [ISC-Bugs #20259] minor cleanup
518 [ISC-Bugs #20263] add text describing some default values
519 [ISC-Bugs #20193] single quotes at the start of a line indicate a control
520 line to nroff, escape them if we actually want a quote.
521 [ISC-Bugs #18916] sync the pointer to web pages amongst the different docs
522
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523- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
524 was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
525 error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
526 reverse lookup of the lease address. Thanks to a patch from Wilco Baan
527 Hofman supplied to us by the Debian package maintenance team.
528 [ISC-Bugs #21691] {Debian Bug#509445}
529
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530- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
531 thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
532 team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
533
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534- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
535 and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
536 from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
537 [ISC-Bugs #20264] and parts of [ISC-Bugs #17744] dhclient.8 changes
538
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539- Add code to clear the pointer to an object in an OMAPI handle when the
540 object is freed due to a dereference. [ISC-Bugs #21306]
541
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542- Fixed a bug that leaks host record references onto lease structures,
543 causing the server to apply configuration intended for one host to any
544 other innocent clients that come along later. [ISC-Bugs #22018]
545
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546- Minor code fixes
547 [ISC-Bugs #19566] When trying to find the zone for a name for ddns allow
548 the name to be at the apex of the zone.
549 [ISC-Bugs #19617] Restrict length of interface name read from command line
550 in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
551 [ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
552 [ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
553 [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
554 overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
555 if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
556 Thanks to Martin Pala.
557 [ISC-Bugs #21497] Add a little more randomness to rng seed in client
558 thanks to a patch from Jeremiah Jinno.
559
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560- Correct error handling in DLPI [ISC-Bugs #20378]
561
562- Remove __sun__ and __hpux__ typedefs in osdep.h as they are now being
563 checked in configure. [ISC-Bugs #20443]
564
565- Modify how the cmsg header is allocated the v6 send and received routines
566 to compile on more compilers. [ISC-Bugs #20524]
567
568- When parsing a domain name free the memory for the name after we are
569 done with it. [ISC-Bugs #20824]
570
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571- Add an elapsed time option to the release message and refactor the
572 code to move most of the common code to a single routine.
573 [ISC-Bugs #21171].
574
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575- Two identical log messages for commit_leases() have been disambiguated.
576 [ISC-Bugs #18915]
577
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578- Parse date strings more properly - the code now handles semi-colons in
579 date strings correctly. Thanks to a patch from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
580 [ISC-Bugs #21501, #20598]
581
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582- Fixes to lease input and output.
583 [ISC-Bugs #20418] - Some systems don't support the "%s" argument to
584 strftime, paste together the same string using mktime instead.
585 [ISC-Bugs #19596] - When parsing iaid values accept printable
586 characters.
587 [ISC-Bugs #21585] - Always print time values in omshell as hex
588 instead of ascii if the values happen to be printable characters.
589
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590- Minor changes for scripts, configure.ac and Makefiles
591 [ISC-Bugs #19147] Use domain-search instead of domain-name in manual and
592 example conf file. Thanks to a patch from David Cantrell
593 at Red Hat.
594 [ISC-Bugs #19761] Restore address when doing a rebind in DHCPv6
595 [ISC-Bugs #19945] Properly close the quote on some arguments.
596 [ISC-Bugs #20952] Add 64 bit types to configure.ac
597 [ISC-Bugs #21308] Add "PATH=" to CLIENT_PATH envrionment variable
598
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599- Update the code to parse dhcpv6 lease files to accept a semi-colon at
600 the end of the max-life and preferred-life clauses. In order to be
601 backwards compatible with older lease files not finding a semi-colon
602 is also accepted. [ISC-Bugs #22303].
603
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604! Handle a relay forward message with an unspecified address in the
605 link address field. Previously such a message would cause the
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606 server to crash. Thanks to a report from John Gibbons. [ISC-Bugs #21992]
607 CERT: VU#102047 CVE: CVE-2010-3611
608
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609- ./configure on longer searches for -lcrypto to explicitly link against.
610 This fixes a bug where 'dhclient' would have shared library dependencies
611 on '/usr/lib'. [ISC-Bugs #21967]
4dc5a6b1 612
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613- Handle pipe failures more gracefully. Some OSes pass a SIGPIPE
614 signal to a process and will kill the process if the signal isn't
615 caught. This patch adds code to turn off the SIGPIPE signal via
616 a setsockopt() call. The signal is already being ignored as part
617 of the ISC library. [ISC-Bugs #22269]
618
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619- Restore printing of values in omshell to the style pre 21585. For
620 21585 we changed the print routines to always display time values
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621 as a hex list. This had a side effect of printing all data strings
622 as a hex list. We shall investigate other ways of displaying time
623 values more usefully. [ISC-Bugs #22626]
3004baba 624
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625! Fix the handling of connection requests on the failover port.
626 Previously a connection request from a source that wasn't
627 listed as a failover peer would cause the server to become
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628 non-responsive. Thanks to a report from Brad Bendily, brad@bendily.com.
629 [ISC-Bugs #22679]
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630 CERT: VU#159528 CVE: CVE-2010-3616
631
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632- Don't pass the ISC_R_INPROGRESS status to the omapi signal handlers.
633 Passing it through to the handlers caused the omshell program to fail
634 to connect to the server. [ISC-Bugs #21839]
635
636- Fix the paranthesis in the code to process configuration statements
637 beginning with "auth". The previous arrangement caused
638 "auto-partner-down" to be processed incorrectly. [ISC-Bugs #21854]
639
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640- Limit the timeout period allowed in the dispatch code to 2^^32-1 seconds.
641 Thanks to a report from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
642 [ISC-Bugs #22033], [Red Hat Bug #628258]
643
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644- When processing the format flags for a given option consume the
645 flag indicating an optional value correctly. A symptom of this
646 bug was an infinite loop when trying to parse the slp-service-scope
647 option. Thanks to a patch from Marius Tomaschewski.
648 [ISC-Bugs #22055]
649
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650- Disable the use of kqueue in the ISC library. This avoids a problem
651 between the fork and socket code that caused the dhcpd process to
652 use all available cpu if the program daemonized itself.
653 [ISC-Bugs #21911]
654
c8b189f1 655! When processing a request in the DHCPv6 server code that specifies
45918d36 656 an address that is tagged as abandoned (meaning we received a
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657 decline request for it previously) don't attempt to move it from
658 the inactive to active pool as doing so can result in the server
e8f330a1 659 crashing on an assert failure. Also retag the lease as active
09afca0d 660 and reset its timeout value.
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661 [ISC-Bugs #21921]
662
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663- Removed the restriction on using IPv6 addresses in IPv4 mode. This
664 allows IPv4 options which contain IPv6 addresses to be specified. For
665 example the 6rd option can be specified and used like this:
666 [ISC-Bugs #23039]
667
668 option 6rd code 212 = { integer 8, integer 8,
669 ip6-address, array of ip-address };
670 option 6rd 16 10 2001:: 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8;
671
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672- Handle some DDNS corner cases better. Maintain the DDNS transaction
673 information when updating a lease and cancel any existing transactions
674 when removing the ddns information.
675 [ISC-Bugs #23103]
676
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677- Some fixes for LDAP
678 [ISC-Bugs #21783] - Include lber library when building ldap
679 [ISC-Bugs #22888] - Enable the ldap code when buidling common
680 The above fixes are from Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
681
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682- Modify the dlpi code to accept getmsg() returning a positive value.
683 [ISC-Bugs #22824]
684
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685 Changes since 4.2.0b2
686
687- Add declaration for variable in debug code in alloc.c. [ISC-Bugs #21472]
0d8c3d6e 688
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689 Changes since 4.2.0b1
690
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691- Prohibit including lease time information in a response to a DHCP INFORM.
692 [ISC-Bugs #21092]
1e05d095 693
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694! Accept a client id of length 0 while hashing. Previously the server would
695 exit if it attempted to hash a zero length client id, providing attackers
d122accf 696 with a simple denial of service attack. [ISC-Bugs #21253]
63ff896a 697 CERT: VU#541921 - CVE: CVE-2010-2156
1943bbf8 698
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699- A memory leak in ddns processing was closed. [ISC-Bugs #21377]
700
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701- Modify the exception handling for initial context creation. Previously
702 we would try and clean up before exiting. This could present problems
703 when the cleanup required part of the context that wasn't available. It
704 also didn't do much as we exited afterwards anyway. Now we simply log
705 the error and exit. [ISC-Bugs #21093]
706
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707- A bug was fixed that could cause the DHCPv6 server to advertise/assign a
708 previously allocated (active) lease to a client that has changed subnets,
709 despite being on different shared networks. Dynamic prefixes specifically
710 allocated in shared networks also now are not offered if the client has
711 moved. [ISC-Bugs #21152]
712
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713- Add some debugging output for use with the DDNS code. [ISC-Bugs #20916]
714
600ee619 715- Fix the trace code to handle timing events better and to truncate a file
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716 before using instead of overwriting it. [ISC-Bugs #20969]
717
718- Modify the determination of the default TTL to use for DDNS updates.
719 The user may still configure the ttl via ddns-ttl. The default for
720 both v4 and v6 is now 1/2 the (preferred) lease time with a limit. The
721 previous defaults (1/2 lease time without a limit for v4 and a default
722 value for v6) may be used by defining USE_OLD_DDNS_TTL in site.h
723 [ISC-Bugs #21126]
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725- libisc/libdns is now brought up to version 9.7.1rc1. This corrects
726 three reported flaws in ISC DHCP;
727
728 o DHCP processes (dhcpd, dhclient) fail to start if one of either the
729 IPv4 or IPv6 address families is not present. [ISC-Bugs #21122]
730
731 o Assertion failure when attempting to cancel a previously running DDNS
732 update. [ISC-Bugs #21133]
733
734 o Compilation failure of libisc/libdns due to the use of a flexible
735 array member. [ISC-Bugs #21316]
736
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737 Changes since 4.2.0a2
738
739- Update the fsync code to work with the changes to the DDNS code. It now
740 uses a timer instead of noticing if there are no more packets to process.
741
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742- When constructing the DNS name structure from a text string append
743 the root to relative names. This satisfies a requirement in the DNS
744 library that names be absolute instead of relative and prevents DHCP
d122accf 745 from crashing. [ISC-Bugs #21054]
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747- "The LDAP Patch" that has been circulating for some time, written by
748 Brian Masney and S.Kalyanasundraram and maintained for application to
749 the DHCP-4 sources by David Cantrell has been included. Please be
750 advised that these sources were contributed, and do not yet meet the
751 high standards we place on production sources we include by default.
752 As a result, the LDAP features are only included by using a compile-time
753 option which defaults off, and if you enable it you do so under your
754 own recognizance. We will be improving this software over time.
755 [ISC-Bugs #17741]
756
3c941d42 757 Changes since 4.2.0a1
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758
759- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
760 is no longer truncated to one octet.
761
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762- Cleaned up an unused hardware address variable in nak_lease().
763
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764- Manpage entries for the ia-pd and ia-prefix options were updated to
765 reflect support for prefix delegation.
766
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767- Cleaned up some compiler warnings
768
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769- An optimization described in the failover protocol draft is now included,
770 which permits a DHCP server operating in communications-interrupted state
771 to 'rewind' a lease to the state most recently transmitted to its peer,
772 greatly increasing a server's endurance in communications-interrupted.
773 This is supported using a new 'rewind state' record on the dhcpd.leases
774 entry for each lease.
775
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776- Fix the trace code which was broken by the changes to the DDNS code.
777
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778 Changes since 4.1.0 (new features)
779
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780- Failover port configuration can now be left to defaults (port 647) as
781 described in the -12 revision of the Failover draft (and assigned by
4b97eaff 782 IANA). Thanks in part to a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
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784- If configured, dhclient may now transmit to an anycast MAC address,
785 rather than using a broadcast address. Thanks to a patch from David
786 Cantrell at Red Hat.
787
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788- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
789 Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy@marples.name>.
790
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791- Added client -D option to specify DUID type to send.
792
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793- A new failover configuration parameter has been introduced for those
794 environments where DHCP servers can be reasonably guaranteed to be
795 "down" when the failover TCP socket is severed, "auto-partner-down".
796 This parameter is not generally safe, and by default is disabled, so
797 please carefully review the documentation of this parameter in the
798 dhcpd.conf(5) manpage before determining to use it yourself.
799
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800- Added a configuration function, 'gethostname()', which calls the system
801 function of the same name and presents the results as a data expression.
802 This function can be used to incorporate the system level hostname of
803 the system the DHCP software is operating on in responses or queries (such
804 as including a failover partner's hostname in a dhcp message or binding
805 scope, or having a DHCP client send any system hostname in the host-name or
806 FQDN options by default).
807
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808- The dhcp-renewal-time and dhcp-rebinding-time options may now be configured
809 for DHCPv4 operation and used independently of the dhcp-lease-time
810 calculations. Invalid renew and rebinding times (e.g., greater than the
811 determined lease time) are omitted.
812
98bf1607 813- Processing the DHCP to DNS server transactions in an asyncrhonous fashion.
09afca0d 814 The DHCP server or client can now continue with its processing while
98bf1607 815 awaiting replies from the DNS server.
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816
817- The 'hardware [ethernet|etc] ...;' parameter in host records has been
818 extended to attempt to match DHCPv6 clients by the last octets of a
819 DUID-LL or DUID-LLT provided by the client.
820
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821 Changes since 4.1.0 (bug fixes)
822
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823- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().
824
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825- Validate the argument to the -p option.
826
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827- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
828 which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
829 It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
830 (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway). It also
831 carries a hopefully more useful explanation.
832
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833- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir
834
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835- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid Solicit
836 and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any requested addresses
837 had been deleted from configuration.
838
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839- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3. This included two sets of changes.
840 The first is to the configuration files to include the use of
571c38b0 841 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. The second is to deal with return values that
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842 were being ignored.
843
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844- The db-time-format option was documented in manpages.
845
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846- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
847 free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
848 Nordahl.
849
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850- Fix a build error in dhcrelay, using older versions of gcc with
851 dhcpv6 disabled.
852
8d7dca58 853- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to a
4b97eaff 854 patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
819186b7 855
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856- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search options would
857 result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in format string').
858
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859- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the server
860 to stop receiving packets is fixed. The same fix also means that the MAC
861 address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based systems.
862
863- A bug in select handling was discovered where the results of one select()
864 call were discarded, causing the server to process the next select() call
865 and use more system calls than required. This has been repaired - the
866 sockets will be handled after the first return from select(), resulting in
867 fewer system calls.
868
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869- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated without
870 a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR). This would cause later
871 expiration or release events to fail to remove the domain name. The feature
872 now also inserts the client's up to date DHCID record, so records may safely
873 be removed at expiration or release time. Thanks to a patch submitted by
874 Christof Chen.
875
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876- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed. This would
877 leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
878 and in normal state.
879
880- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
881 DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.
882
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883- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with DHCPv6.
884
885- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
886 to be double-quoted. Also allow server-provided hostname to
887 override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.
888
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889- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to reconnect
890 rather than restarting the listener.
891
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892- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
893 been repaired. Other USE_ overrides should work better.
894
895- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else' condition,
896 that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but wouldn't use
897 a larger defined value provided by the host OS).
898
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899- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not result
900 in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not negotiated a
901 failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch socket connect()
902 timeouts).
903
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904- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be parsed
905 in failover state records.
906
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907! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
908 remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
909 or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
1b12d999 910 option. CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692
8a4e543b 911
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912- Fixed a bug where relay agent options would never be returned when
913 processing a DHCPINFORM.
914
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915- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is now
916 supported. Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups only the
917 last option definition is used.
918
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919- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds between a
920 failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact with the
921 secondary. Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.
922
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923- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
924 Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.
925
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926- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
927 they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
928 released through the primary. As part of the same fix, stale binding scopes
929 will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's active client is
930 detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed to have expired (which it
931 may have expired without a failover server noticing in some situations).
932
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933- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
934 invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
935 Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
936 that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.
937
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938! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records configured,
939 one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'. CVE-2009-1892
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941- Fixed the check in the dhcp_interface_signal_handler routine to verify
942 the existence of the linked signal handler before calling it.
943
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944- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
945 fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not. Host scoped configuration takes
946 precedence. This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped configuration
947 would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host record, and the equal
948 and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped configuration would not be used when
571c38b0 949 over-riding values were not present in a matching fixed-address6 host
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950 configuration.
951
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952- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are defined,
953 correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's compiler.
954
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955- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
956 object for the connection while it is still in use. One symptom from
957 this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to connect
958 to the failover primary if their clocks were not synchronized.
959
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960- Clean up to allow compilation with gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD. Remove an
961 extra semi-colon from common/dns.c and moved setting a variable to NULL
962 in server/dhcpv6.c to allow the compiler to decide that the variable
963 was always properly set.
964
adbef119 965 Changes since 4.1.0b1
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966
967- A missing "else" in dhcrelay.c could have caused an interface not to
968 be recognized.
61d75ea2 969
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970 Changes since 4.1.0a2
971
972- A cosmetic bug in DHCPDECLINE processing was fixed which caused all
973 successful DHCPDECLINEs to be logged as "not found" rather than
974 "abandoned".
975
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976- Added configuration file examples for DHCPv6.
977
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978- Some failover debugging #defines have been better defined and some
979 high frequency messages moved to a deeper debugging symbol.
980
981- The CLTT parameter in failover is now only updated by client activity,
982 and not by failover binding updates (taking on the peer's CLTT).
983
984- Failover BNDUPD messages are now discarded if they conflict with an
d7ac7a27 985 update that has been transmitted, but not acknowledged.
1387545f 986
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987- A bug cleaning up unknown-xxx temporary option definitions was fixed.
988
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989- Delayed-ack is now a compile-time option, compiled out by default.
990 This feature is simply too experimental for right now, and causes
991 some problems to some failover installations. We will revisit this
992 in future releases.
993
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994- The !inet_pton() call in res_mkupdrec was adjusted to '<= 0' as
995 inet_pton returns either 1, 0, or -1.
996
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997- A dhclient-script for MacOS X has been included, which enables
998 'dhclient -6' support.
999
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1000- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed until
1001 the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not only the last
1002 one of either of those). This resolves a bug where dual stack clients
1003 would not be able to regain their names after either expiration event.
1004
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1006
1007- Corrected list of failover state values in dhcpd man page.
1008
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1009- Fixed a bug that caused some request types to be logged incorrectly.
1010
20210a7b
EH
1011- Clients that sent a parameter request list containing the
1012 routers option before the subnet mask option were receiving
1013 only the latter. Fixed.
1014
535485df
EH
1015- The server wasn't always sending the FQDN option when it should.
1016
8fbb55ff
DH
1017- A partner-down failover server no longer emits 'peer holds all free leases'
1018 if it is able to newly-allocate one of the peer's leases.
1019
61220a00
EH
1020- Fixed a coredump when adding a class via OMAPI.
1021
c40e954c
EH
1022- Check whether files are zero length before trying to parse them.
1023
63971a83
DH
1024- Ari Edelkind's PARANOIA patch has been included and may be compiled in
1025 via two ./configure parameters, --enable-paranoia and
1026 --enable-early-chroot.
1027
66cebfcb
DH
1028- ./configure was extended to cover many optional build features, such
1029 as failover, server tracing, debugging, and the execute() command.
1030
f8cbf390
DH
1031- There is now a default 1/4 of a second scheduled delay between delayed
1032 fsync()'s, it can be configured by the max-ack-delay configuration
1033 parameter.
1034
8269561d
DH
1035- A bug was fixed where the length of a hostname was miscalculated, so that
1036 hosts were given odd-looking domain names ("foo.bar.ba.example.com").
1037
b445a411
DH
1038- Shared network selection should be done from the innermost relay
1039 valid link-address field, rather than the outermost.
1040
bd72740e
FD
1041- Prefix pools are attached to shared network scopes.
1042
9322442f
FD
1043- Merged IA_XX related structures.
1044
8dea7ba7
FD
1045- Add DHCPv6 files in configure.
1046
4619c0a2
DH
1047- A memory leak when using omapi has been fixed.
1048
9ac4206a
DH
1049- DHCPv6 vendor-class options (VSIO) are now only sent when they appear
1050 on the DHCPv6 ORO. This resolves a bug where VSIO options were placed
1051 in IA_NA encapsulated options fields.
1052
420d8b3f
FD
1053- Integrated client with stateless, temporary address and prefix delegation
1054 support.
1055
40ec5f38
DH
1056- A double-dereference in dhclient transmission of DHCPDECLINEs was
1057 repaired.
1058
80097764
FD
1059- Fix handling of format code 'Z'.
1060
ffbaa880
FD
1061- Support "-1" argument in DHCPv6.
1062
7de20a95
EH
1063- Merge DHCPv6-only "dhcrelay6" into general-purpose "dhcrelay" (use
1064 "-6" option to select DHCPv6 mode).
1065
d352732e
EH
1066- Fix handling of -A and -a flags in dhcrelay; it was failing to expand
1067 packet size as needed to add relay agent options.
1068
7d6180be
DH
1069- A bug in subnet6 parsing where options contained in subnet6 clauses would
1070 not be applied to clients addressed within that network was repaired.
1071
1072- When configuring a "subnet {}" or "subnet6 {}" without an explicit
1073 shared-network enclosing it, the DHCP software would synthesize a
1074 shared-network to contain the subnet. However, all configuration
1075 parameters within the subnet more intuitively belong "to any client
1076 on that interface", or rather the synthesized shared-network. So,
1077 when a shared-network is synthesized, it is used to contain the
1078 configuration present inside the subnet {} clause. This means that
1079 the configuration will be valid for all clients on that network, not
1080 just those addressed out of the stated subnet. If you intended the
1081 opposite, the workaround is to explicitly configure an empty
1082 shared-network.
1083
1084- A bug was fixed where Information-Request processing was not sourcing
1085 configured option values.
1086
1087- A warning was added since the DHCPv6 processing software does not yet
1088 support class statements.
1089
dd484ced
DH
1090- Compliation warnings on GCC 4.3 relating to bootp source address
1091 selection were repaired.
1092
ecddae64
DH
1093- The v6 BSD socket method was updated to use a single UDP BSD socket
1094 no matter how many interfaces are involved, differentiating the
1095 interfaces the packets were received on by the interface index supplied
1096 by the OS.
1097
1098- The relay agent no longer listens to the All DHCP Servers Multicast
1099 address.
1100
1101- A bug was fixed in data_string_sprintfa() where va_start was only called
1102 once for two invocations of vsprintf() variants.
1103
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DH
1104- ERO (RFC 4994) server support.
1105
1106- Basic and partial DHCPv6 leasequery support.
1107
1108- Reliable DHCPv6 release (previous behavior, send release and exit, is
1109 still available with dhclient -6 -1 -r).
1110
01a54c17 1111 Changes since 4.0.0 (new features)
3c12f746 1112
6d7f9584
FD
1113- Added DHCPv6 rapid commit support.
1114
4cafb815 1115- Added explicit parser support for zero-length DHCP options, such as
6d7f9584 1116 rapid-commit, via format code 'Z'.
4cafb815 1117
022fe95e
EH
1118- It's now possible to update the "ends" field of a lease with OMAPI.
1119 This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
1120 it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
1121
1dcc3612
SK
1122- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
1123 functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
1124
aabfa4de
FD
1125- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
1126
0674055a
FD
1127- Allocated interface IDs are better controlled ('u' bit set to zero,
1128 reserved IDs avoided).
1129
b51c785f
FD
1130- Unicast options are taken into account only for RENEWs.
1131
900405e9
FD
1132- NoAddrsAvail answers to SOLICITs are always ADVERTISEs even when a SOLICIT
1133 carries a rapid-commit option.
1134
96b620e5
FD
1135- Return in place of raise an impossible condition when one tries to release
1136 an empty active lease.
1137
be62cf06
FD
1138- Timer granularity is now 1/100s in the DHCPv6 client.
1139
01a54c17
EH
1140- The dhclient-script was updated to create a host route for the default
1141 gateway if the supplied subnet mask for an IPv4 address was a /32. This
1142 allows the client to work in 'captive' network environments, where the
1143 operator does not want clients to crosstalk directly.
1144
1145- MINUS tokens should be parseable again.
1146
1147- Multiple (up to "delayed-ack x;" maximum) DHCPv4 packets are now queued and
1148 released in bursts after single fsync() events when the upper limit is
1149 reached or if the receiving sockets go dry. The practical upshot is
1150 that fsync-coupled server performance is now multiplicitively increased.
1151 The default delayed ack limit is 28. Thanks entirely to a patch from
1152 Christof Chen.
1153
1154 Changes since 4.0.0 (bug fixes)
1155
1156- DHCP now builds on AIX.
1157
1158- Exit with warning when DHCPv6-specific statements are used in the
1159 config file but -6 is not specified.
1160
1161- Fixed "--version" flag in dhcrelay
1162
1163- The 'min-secs' configuration parameter's log message has been updated to
1164 be more helpful.
1165
1166- The warning logged when an address range doesn't fit in the subnets
1167 they were declared has been updated to be more helpful and identify the
1168 typo in configuration that created the spanning addresses.
1169
1170- A bug in failover pool rebalancing that caused POOLREQ message ping-pongs
1171 was repaired.
1172
1173- A flaw in failover pool rebalancing that could cause POOLREQ messages to
1174 be sent outside of the min-balance/max-balance scheduled intervals has
1175 been repaired.
1176
1177- A cosmetic bug during potential-conflict recovery that caused the peer's
1178 'conflict-done' state message to be logged as 'unknown-state' has been
1179 repaired. It is now logged correctly.
1180
49f61135
DH
1181- A bug was fixed where the 'giaddr' may be used to find the client's subnet
1182 rather than its own 'ciaddr'.
1183
41d4652f
DH
1184- A log message was introduced to clarify the situation where a failover
1185 'address' parameter (the server's local address) did not resolve to an
1186 IPv4 address.
1187
2c9bf1f4
DH
1188- The minimum site code value was set to 224 in 3.1.0 to track RFC3942. This
1189 broke a lot of legacy site local configurations. The new code in place will
1190 track site local space minimum option codes and logs a warning to encourage
1191 updates and exploration of site local code migration problems. Option
1192 codes less than 128 in site local spaces remain inaccessible.
1193
1194- A possible relay agent option bug was repaired where random server
1195 initialization state may have been used to signal the relay agent
1196 information options sub-option code for the 'END' of the option space.
1197
cff9b78f
SK
1198- Fixes to allow code to compile and run on Solaris 9.
1199
c4d29896
SK
1200- Fixes to allow code to compile on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
1201
57fcb8d9
SK
1202- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
1203 issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
1204 option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
1205 every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
1206 unnecessary logging.
1207
219a65eb
DH
1208- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
1209 which conflicts with a dhcp configuration syntax token by the same name.
1210
ffdf3c8c
DH
1211- When a failover server suspects it has encountered a peer running a
1212 version 3.0.x failover server, a warning that the failover wire protocol
1213 is incompatible is printed.
1214
1215- The failover server no longer issues a floating point error if it encounters
1216 a previously undefined option code.
1217
00a002fc
MA
1218- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
1219 than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
1220
7e9f7a1b
FD
1221- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
1222 than the year 2000.
1223
e2cfde76
FD
1224- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
1225
cabdb9b1
FD
1226- DHCPv6 released resources are now marked as released by the client.
1227
5d89d60f
FD
1228- 'Soft' bindings have no more side-effects.
1229
61d75ea2
DH
1230 Changes since 4.0.0b3
1231
1232- The reverse dns name for PTR updates on IPv6 addresses has been fixed to
1233 use ip6.arpa. rather than default to in-addr.arpa and require user
1234 configuration.
76db44f9 1235
e32529a5
EH
1236- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
1237 to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
1238
76db44f9
SK
1239- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
1240 client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
1241 server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
e4a6be15 1242
6f76de58
SK
1243- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
1244 incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
1245 server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
1246 a requested address.
1247
703873ab
DH
1248- If the client had multiple addresses, and one expired (was not renewed
1249 by the server), the client would continue to attempt to renew the same
1250 old address over and over. Now, the client will omit any expired
1251 addresses from future Confirm, Renew, or Rebind messages.
1252
1253- dhclient -6 will now select renew/rebind timers based upon the longest
1254 address expiration time rather than the shortest expiration time, in
1255 order to avoid cascading renewals in the event a server elects not to
1256 extend one of multiple IAADDR leases.
1257
b024480e
DH
1258- The server now limits clients that request multiple addresses to one
1259 address per IA by default, which can be adjusted through the
1260 "limit-addrs-per-ia" configuration option.
1261
c0216cb7
DH
1262- The DHCPv6 client now issues fresh transaction IDs on Renew and Rebind
1263 message exchanges, rather than using the most recent ID.
1264
1ac57173
FD
1265- The DHCPv6 server now replies to Information-Request messages.
1266
83835822
DH
1267- A bug was fixed in the dhclient-script for BSDs to correctly carry error
1268 codes through some conditions.
1269
c54db708
FD
1270- The parsing of some options in the dhclient lease file, in particular
1271 the success DHCPv6 status-code, was fixed.
1272
e5d83524
DH
1273- A bug was fixed that caused the DHCPv6 ORO option to be corrupted with
1274 seemingly random values.
1275
821f2dda
DH
1276- A reference overleak in DHCPv6 shared network processing was repaired.
1277
f8b3c6f4
DH
1278- ./configure now autodetects local database locations rather than trying
1279 to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
1280 one ever has.
1281
b9137d42
SK
1282- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
1283 response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
1284 to a REQUEST.
1285
9f1d5a2f
DH
1286- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
1287 code in the IA_NA was fixed. The status code now appears in the root
1288 level.
1289
e4a6be15
DH
1290 Changes since 4.0.0b2
1291
65cf86d7
EH
1292- Clarified error message when lease limit exceeded
1293
b1d3778c
DH
1294- Relative time may now be used as a qualifier for 'allow' and 'deny' access
1295 control lists. These directives may be used to assist in re-addressing
1296 address pools without having to constantly reconfigure the server. Please
1297 see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more information on allow/deny 'after time' syntax.
1298 Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen.
1299
bead14ea
DH
1300- The server will now include multiple IA_NA's and multiple IAADDRs within
1301 them, if advertised by the client. It still only seeks to allocate one
1302 new address.
1303
f765ec36
SK
1304 Changes since 4.0.0b1
1305
75135a3f
EH
1306- Use different paths for PID and lease files when running in DHCPv4
1307 or DHCPv6 mode, so that servers for both protcols can be run
1308 simultaneously on a single interface.
1309
5c2d55c7
EH
1310- Fixed a buffer overflow error which could have allowed a denial
1311 of service under unusual server configurations
1312
1313- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
1314
f765ec36
SK
1315- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
1316 server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
fa9b593d 1317
edb1283e
DH
1318- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
1319 'never used' leases will no longer consistently shift between servers
1320 on every pool rebalance run.
1321
c71c6399
DH
1322- sendmsg()/recvmsg() control buffers are now declared in such a way to
1323 ensure they are correctly aligned on all (esp. 64-bit) architectures.
1324
5279b8f3
DH
1325- The client leasing subsystem was streamlined and corrected to account
1326 more closely for changes in client link attachment selection.
1327
ab3a540f 1328 Changes since 4.0.0a3
763cba6b 1329
884a458f
SK
1330- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
1331 and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
1332
fa9b593d
DH
1333- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
1334 point out the problem.
1335
1b5053b5
SK
1336- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
1337 but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
1338 Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
1339
c886c298
SK
1340- Fixed an error causing the server to lock up on lease expiration,
1341 reported independently by Jothilingam Vasu and Dennis Kou.
1342
eaf7eb17
DH
1343- Fixed a ./configure bug where compile tests were failing due to
1344 "-Werror" (unused variable) rather than the actual test failure. Lead
1345 to inconsistent and unworkable auto-configurations.
1346
109e00db
DH
1347- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
1348
3ad9d48f
SK
1349- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
1350 fixed by Marcus Goller.
1351
8eab95f2
DH
1352- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
1353 longer replies only to clients with host {} records, it now replies
1354 as directed in RFC3315 section 18.2.2 - that is, to all clients
1355 regardless of the existence of bindings.
1356
07b9a351
DH
1357- A core dump during expired lease cleanup has been repaired.
1358
7285af30
DH
1359- DDNS updates state information are now stored in 'binding scopes' that
1360 follow the leases through their lifecycles. This enables DDNS teardowns
1361 on leases that are assigned and expired inbetween a server restart (the
1362 state is recovered from dhcpd.leases). Arbitrary user-specified binding
1363 scopes ('set var = "value";') are not yet supported.
1364
2394b26b
DH
1365- Additional compilation problems on HP/UX have been repaired.
1366
ab3a540f
SK
1367 Changes since 4.0.0a2
1368
97050349
SK
1369- Fix for startup where there are no IPv4 addresses on an interface.
1370 Thanks to Marcus Goller for reporting the bug.
1371
763cba6b 1372- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
e889ded1 1373
237f8d3a
SK
1374- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
1375 startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
1376 Knispel for the bug report and fix.
1377
28868515
SK
1378- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
1379
d00d373a
SK
1380- DHCPv6 is now the default. You can disable DHCPv6 support using the
1381 "--disable-dhcpv6" flag when you run the configure script.
1382
8dfd5744
DH
1383- An internal database inconsistency bug was repaired where the server
1384 would segfault if a client attempted to renew a lease that had been
1385 loaded from persistent storage.
1386
45d545f0 1387- 'request' and 'also request' syntaxes have been added to accommodate
0c20eab3
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1388 the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
1389 necessary.
1390
f800f4f6
SK
1391- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
1392 zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
1393 rapid-commit option.
1394
845e9677
DH
1395- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
1396 non-128-bits in length were removed.
1397
76c944da
SK
1398 Changes since 4.0.0a1
1399
71765b58
SK
1400- Bug in octal parsing fixed. Thanks to Bernd Fuhrmann for the report
1401 and fix.
1402
847e7000
SK
1403- Autoconf now supplies proper flags for Solaris DHCPv6 builds.
1404
bda33169
SK
1405- Fix for parsing error on some IPv6 addresses.
1406
9b21e73e
SK
1407- Invalid CIDR representation for IPv6 subnets or ranges now checked
1408 for when loading configuration.
1409
8da06bb1
DH
1410- Compilation on HP/UX has been repaired. The changes should generally
1411 apply to any architecture that supplies SIOCGLIFCONF but does not
1412 use 'struct lifconf' structures to pass values.
1413
dd328225
DH
1414- Two new operators, ~= and ~~, have been integrated to implement
1415 boolean matches by regular expression (such as may be used in
1416 class matching statements). Thanks to a patch by Alexandr S.
1417 Agranovsky, which underwent slight modification.
1418
76c944da
SK
1419- Fix for icmp packets on 64-bit systems (bug introduced in 4.0).
1420
f796f70a
DH
1421- A bug was fixed in interface discovery wherein an error identifying
1422 a server-configured interface with no IPv4 addresses would SEGV.
76c944da 1423
c11f349d
EH
1424- Fixed a bug in which write_lease() might report a failure incorrectly
1425
af5fa176
EH
1426- Added support for DHCPv6 Release messages
1427
1428- Added -x option to dhclient, which triggers dhclient processes
1429 to exit gracefully without releasing leases first
1430
a546f2a7
EH
1431- All binaries (client, server, relay) now change directories
1432 to / before going into daemon mode, so as not to hold $CWD open
1433
b55d0d5f
EH
1434- Fixed a bug parsing DHCPv6 client-id's in host-identifier statements
1435
26be82af
DH
1436- Fixed a bug with the 'ddns-updates' boolean server configuration
1437 parameter, which caused the server to fail.
1438
98bd7ca0
DH
1439 Changes since 4.0.0-20070413
1440
d9b43370
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1441- Old (expired) leases are now cleaned.
1442
8c1752d2
DH
1443- IPv6 subnets now have support for arbitrary allocation ranges via
1444 a new 'range6' configuration directive.
1445
98bd7ca0
DH
1446- An obviated option code hash lookup to find D6O_CLIENTID was removed.
1447
a512d11b
DH
1448- Corrected some situations where variables might be used without being
1449 initialized.
1450
1451- Silenced several other compiler warnings.
1452
1453- Include the more standard sys/uio.h rather than rely upon other
f66f02cc
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1454 header files to include it (fixes a BSD 4.2 compile failure).
1455
1456- Duplicate dhclient-script updates for DHCPv6 to all provided scripts.
a512d11b 1457
4ba58919
DH
1458- DHCPv4 I/O methods that failed to sense hardware address were corrected.
1459
1460- DHCPv4 is now the default (as documented) rather than DHCPv6. The default
1461 was set to DHCPv6 to facilitate ease early development, and forgotten.
1462
1463- Corrected a segmentation violation in DHCPv4 socket processing.
1464
8ea19a71 1465- dhclient will now fork() into the background once it binds to an
45d545f0 1466 IPv6 address, or immediately if the -n flag is supplied.
8ea19a71
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1467
1468- -q is now the default behaviour on dhclient, with -d or -v enabling
1469 non-quiet (stderr logging) mode.
1470
2cf8d0bd
DH
1471- Fix documentation of the domain-search atom (quoted, with commas).
1472
1473- Document DHCPv6 options presently in the default table.
1474
fe5b0fdd
DH
1475- Replaced ./configure shellscripting with GNU Autoconf.
1476
98bd7ca0
DH
1477 Changes since 3.1.0 (NEW FEATURES)
1478
1479- DHCPv6 Client and Server protocol support. Use '-6' to run the daemons
1480 as v6-only. Use '-4' to run the daemons as v4-only (default. There is
1481 no support currently for both.
1482
1483- Server support for multiple IA_NA options, containing at most one
1484 IAADDR option.
1485
1486- Client support for one IA_NA option, containing any number of IAADDR
1487 options.
1488
1489- Server support for the DHCPv6 Information-request message.
1490
1491- Inappropriate unicast DHCPv6 messages sent to the server are now
1492 discarded, and this has rearchitected the IO system slightly.
1493
1494- The DHCPv6 server DUID defaults to type 1, is persistently stored in
1495 the leases database, and can be over-ridden (either completely, or by
1496 specifying type 1 or type 2).
1497
1498- The server only uses Rapid-Commit if it has been configured with the
1499 Rapid-Commit option and the client requests it.
1500
1501- DDNS support. We now update AAAA records in the same place we would
1502 update A records, if we have an IPv6 address. We also generate IP6.ARPA
1503 style names for PTR records if we're dealing with an IPv6 address. Both
1504 A and AAAA updates are done using the same 'fqdn.' virtual option space
1505 (although the DHCPv4 FQDN and DHCPv6 FQDN options are formatted
1506 differently, they both use the same code here).
1507
1508- The Linux dhclient-script attempts to set and remove assigned addresses,
1509 and to configure /etc/resolv.conf from nameserver and domain name
1510 configurations. It can be extended to configure other parameters.
1511
1512- Initial DHCPv6 lease support.
1513
1514- The IO system now tracks all local IP addresses, so that the DHCP
1515 applications (particularly the dhcrelay) can discern between what frames
1516 were transmitted to it, and what frames are being carried through it which
1517 it should not intercept.
1518
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DH
1519 Changes since 3.1.0 (Maintenance)
1520
1521- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for virgin leases always
1522 mapped to the primary. Virgin leases now have an interleaved preference
1523 between primary and secondary.
1524
1525- A bug was repaired where MAC Address Affinity for clients with no client
1526 identifier was sometimes mishashed to the peer. Load balancing during
1527 runtime and pool rebalancing were opposing.
1528
aa3e348e
DH
1529- An assertion in lease counting relating to reserved leases was repaired.
1530
e9c59645
DH
1531- The subnet-mask option inclusion now conforms with RFC2132 section 3.3;
1532 it will only appear prior to the routers option if it is present on the
1533 Parameter-Request-List. The subnet-mask option will also only be
1534 included by default (if it is not on the PRL) in response to DISCOVER
1535 or REQUEST messages.
1536
1537- The FQDN option is only supplied if the client supplied an FQDN option or
1538 if the FQDN option was explicitly requested on the PRL.
1539
c104546d
DH
1540- Dynamic BOOTP leases are now load balanced in failover.
1541
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1542 Changes since 3.1.0rc1
1543
1544- The parse warning that 'deny dyanmic bootp;' must be configured for
1545 failover protected subnets was removed.
1546
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1547 Changes since 3.1.0b2
1548
1549- Failover rebalance events no longer play ping pong with round errors
1550 (moving leases between free and back to backup where there are an
1551 odd number of leases).
1552
1553- The 'pool' log line has been split into two messages, one before the
1554 rebalance run, and one after.
1555
1556- Any queued BNDACKs are transmitted before transmitting new BNDUPDs.
1557 This enforces the correct sequence of events for the remote server
1558 processing these messages.
1559
fe5b0fdd 1560 Changes since 3.1.0b1
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1562- Fixed a bug that caused OMAPI clients to freeze when opening lease
1563 objects.
1564
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1565- A new server config option "fqdn-reply" specifies whether the server
1566 should send out option 81 (FQDN). Defaults to "on". If set to "off",
1567 the FQDN option is not sent, even if the client requested it. This is
1568 needed because some clients misbehave otherwise. Thanks to Christof Chen
1569 at Allianz.
1570
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1571- Allow trace output files (-tf option) to be overwritten, rather than
1572 crashing dhcpd if the file already exists
1573
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1574- A bug was fixed that caused dhcpd to segfault if a pool was declared
1575 outside the scope of a subnet in dhcpd.conf.
1576
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1577- Some uninitialized values were repaired in dhcpleasequery.c that
1578 caused the server to abort.
1579
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1580- A new server config option, 'do-reverse-updates', has been added
1581 which causes the server to abstain from performing updates on PTR
1582 records. Thanks to a patch from Christof Chen at Allianz.
1583
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1584- A bug was repaired in subencapsulation support, where spaces separated
1585 by empty spaces would not get included.
1586
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1587- A bug in dhclient was repaired which caused it to send parameter request
1588 lists of 55 bytes in length no matter how long the declared PRL was.
1589
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1590- 'dhcp.c(3953): non-null pointer' has been repaired. This fixes a flaw
1591 wherein the DHCPv4 server may ignore a configured server-identifier.
1592
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1593- A flaw in failover startup sequences was repaired that sometimes left
1594 the primary DHCP server's pool rebalance schedules unscheduled.
1595
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1596- Corrected a flaw that broke encapsulated spaces included due to presence
1597 on the parameter request list.
1598
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1599 Changes since 3.1.0a3
1600
1601- Some spelling fixes.
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1603 Changes since 3.1.0a2
1604
1605- A bug was fixed where attempting to permit leasequeries results in a
1606 fatal internal error, "Unable to find server option 49".
1607
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1608- A bug was fixed in dhclient rendering the textual output form of the
1609 domain-search option syntax.
1610
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1611 Changes since 3.1.0a1
1612
1613- A bug in the FQDN universe that added FQDN codes to the NWIP universe's
1614 hash table was repaired.
1615
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1616- The servers now try harder to transmit pending binding updates when
1617 entering normal state.
1618
1619- UPDREQ/UPDREQALL handling was optimized - it no longer dequeues and
1620 requeues all pending updates. This should reduce the number of spurious
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1621 'xid mismatch' log messages.
1622
1623- An option definition referencing leak was fixed, which resulted in early
1624 termination of dhclient upon the renewal event.
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1626- Some default hash table sizes were tweaked, some upwards, some downwards.
1627 3.1.0a1's tables resulted in a reduction in default server memory use.
1628 The new selected values provide more of a zero sum (increasing the size
1629 of tables likely to be populated, decreasing the size of tables unlikely).
1630
45d545f0 1631- Lease structures appear in three separate hashes: by IP address, by UID,
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1632 and by hardware address. One type of table was used for all three, and
1633 improvements to IP address hashing were applied to all three (so UID and
1634 hardware addresses were treated like 4-byte integers). There are now two
1635 types of tables, and the uid/hw hashes use functions more appropriate
1636 to their needs.
1637
1638- The max-lease-misbalance percentage no longer causes scheduled rebalance
1639 runs to be skipped: it still governs the schedule, but every scheduled
1640 run will attempt balance.
1641
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1642- A segfault bug in recursive encapsulation support has been corrected.
1643
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1644 Changes since 3.0 (New Features)
1645
1646- A workaround for certain STSN servers that send a mangled domain-name
1647 option was introduced for dhclient. The client will now accept corrupted
1648 server responses, if they contain a valid DHCP_MESSAGE_TYPE (OFFER, ACK,
1649 or NAK). The server will continue to not accept corrupt client packets.
1650
98bd7ca0 1651- Support for 'reserved' (pseudo-static) and BOOTP leases via failover
a55ccdd0 1652 was introduced.
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1653
1654- Support for adding, removing, and managing class and subclass statements
1655 via OMAPI.
1656
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1657- The failover implementation was updated to comply with revision 12 of
1658 the protocol draft.
1659
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1660- 'make install' now creates the initial zero-length dhcpd.leases file if
1661 one does not already exist on the system.
1662
b43c87ad 1663- RFC3942 compliance, site-local option spaces start at 224 now, not 128.
b43c87ad 1664
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1665- The Load Balance Algorithm was misimplemented. The current implementation
1666 matches RFC 3074.
1667
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1668- lcase() and ucase() configuration expressions have been added which adjust
1669 their arguments from upper to lower and lower to upper cases respectively.
2714a8ef 1670 Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
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1672- The dhclient 'reject ...;' statement, which rejects leases given by named
1673 server-identifiers, now permits address ranges to be specified in CIDR
7d7073e7 1674 notation. Thanks to a patch from David Boyce.
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1676- The subnet-mask option is now supplied by default, but at lowest
1677 priority. This helps a small minority of clients that provide parameter
1678 request lists, but do not list the subnet-mask option because they were
1679 designed to interoperate with a server that behaves in this manner.
1680
1681- The FQDN option is similarly supplied even if it does not appear on the
1682 parameter request list, but not to the exclusion of options that do
1683 appear at the parameter request list. Up until now it had ultimate
1684 priority over the client's parameter request list.
1685
f7fdb216 1686- Varying option space code and length bit widths (8/16/32) are now
51202707 1687 supported. This is a milestone in achieving RFC 3925 "VIVSO" and
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1688 DHCPv6 support.
1689
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1690- A new common (server or client) option, 'db-time-format local;', has
1691 been added which prints the local time in /var/db/dhcpd.leases rather
1692 than UTC. Thanks to a patch from Ken Lalonde.
1693
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1694- Some patches to improve DHCP Server startup speed from Andrew Matheson
1695 have been incorporated.
1696
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1697- Failover pairs now implement 'MAC Affinity' on leases moving from the
1698 active to free states. Leases that belonged to the failover secondary
1699 are moved to BACKUP state rather than FREE upon exiting EXPIRED state.
1700 If lease rebalancing must move leases, it tries first to move leases
1701 that belong to the peer in need.
1702
1703- The server no longer sends POOLREQ messages unless the pool is severely
1704 misbalanced in the peer's favor (see 'man dhcpd.conf' for more details).
1705
1706- Pool rebalance events no longer happen upon successfully allocating a
1707 lease. Instead, they happen on a schedule. See 'man dhcpd.conf' for the
1708 min-balance and max-balance statements for more information.
1709
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1710- The DHCP Relay Agent Information Option / Link Selection Sub-Option
1711 is now supported. (See RFC3527 for details).
1712
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1713- A new DDNS related server option, update-conflict-detection, has been
1714 added. If this option is enabled, dhcpd will perform normal DHCID
1715 conflict resolution (the default). If this option is disabled, it will
1716 instead trust the assigned name implicitly (removing any other bindings
1717 on that name). This option has not been made available in dhclient.
1718
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1719- In those cases where the DHCP software manufactures an IP header (to
1720 transmit via bpf, lpf, etc), the IP TTL the software selects has been
1721 increased from 16 to 128. This is intended to match Microsoft Windows
1722 DHCP Client behaviour, to increase compatibility.
1723
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1724- 'ignore client-updates;' now has behaviour that is different from
1725 'deny client-updates;'. The client's request is not truly ignored,
1726 rather it is encouraged. Should this value be configured, the server
1727 updates DNS as though client-updates were set to 'deny'. That is, it
1728 enters into DNS whatever it is configured to do already, provided it is
1729 configured to. Then it sends a response to the client that lets the
1730 client believe it is performing client updates (which it will), probably
1731 for a different name. In essence, this lets the client do as it will,
1732 ignoring this aspect of their request.
1733
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1734- Support for compressed 'domain name list' style DHCP option contents, and
1735 in particular the domain search option (#119) was added.
1736
41e45067 1737- The DHCP LEASEQUERY protocol as defined in RFC4388 is now implemented.
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1738 LEASEQUERY lets you query the DHCP server for information about a lease,
1739 using either an IP address, MAC address, or client identifier. Thanks
1740 to a patch from Justin Haddad.
1741
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1742- DHCPD is now RFC2131 section 4.1 compliant (broadcast to all-ones ip and
1743 ethernet mac address) on the SCO platform specifically without any strange
1744 ifconfig hacks. Many thanks go to the Kroger Co. for donating the
1745 hardware and funding the development.
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1747- A new common configuration executable statement, execute(), has been
1748 added. This permits dhcpd or dhclient to execute a named external
1749 program with command line arguments specified from other configuration
1750 language. Thanks to a patch written by Mattias Ronnblom, gotten to us
1751 via Robin Breathe.
1752
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1753- A new dhcp server option 'adaptive-lease-time-threshold' has been added
1754 which causes the server to substantially reduce lease-times if there are
1755 few (configured percentage) remaining leases. Thanks to a patch submitted
1756 from Christof Chen.
1757
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1758- Encapsulated option spaces within encapsulated option spaces is now
1759 formally supported.
1760
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1761 Changes since 3.0.6rc1
1762
1763- supersede_lease() now requeues leases in their respective hardware
1764 address hash bucket. This mirrors client identifier behaviour.
1765
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1766 Changes since 3.0.5
1767
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1768- Assorted fixes for broken network devices: Packet length is now
1769 determined from the IP header length field to finally calculate the
1770 UDP payload length, because some NIC drivers return more data than
5a22eb63 1771 they actually received.
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1772
1773- UDP packets are now stored in aligned data structures.
1774
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1775- A logic error in omapi interface code was repaired that might result in
1776 incorrectly indicating 'up' state when any flags were set, rather than
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1777 specifically the INTERFACE_REQUESTED flag. Thanks to a patch from
1778 Jochen Voss which got to us via Andrew Pollock at Debian.
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1780- A reference leak on binding scopes set by ddns updates was repaired.
1781
d69fb6a8 1782- A memory leak in the minires_nsendsigned() function call was repaired.
23e10d37 1783 Effectively, this leaked ~176 bytes per DDNS update.
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1785- In the case where an "L2" DHCP Relay Agent (one that does not set giaddr)
1786 was directly attached to the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server,
1787 the RFC3046 relay agent information option was not being returned to the
1788 relay in the server's replies. This was fixed; the dhcp server no longer
1789 requires the giaddr to reply with relay agent information. Note that
1790 this also improves compatibility with L2 devices that "intercept" DHCP
1791 packets and expect relay agent information even in unicast (renewal)
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1792 replies. Thanks to a patch from Pekka Silvonen.
1793
1794- A bug was fixed where the BOOTP header 'sname' field had a value, the
1795 copy written to persistent storage was actually the contents of the
1796 'file' field.
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1798- A bug was fixed where the nwip virtual option space was referencing
1799 the fqdn option's virtual option space's option cache.
1800
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1801- Timestamp parsing errors that indicated missing "minutes" fields rather
1802 than the actually missing "seconds" fields have been repaired thanks to
1803 a patch from Kevin Steves.
1804
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1805- A grammar error in the dhclient.8 manpage was repaired thanks to a patch
1806 from Chris Wagner.
1807
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1808- Several spelling typos were repaired, and some cross-references to other
1809 relevant documents were included in the manpages, thanks to a patch
1810 by Andrew Pollock which got to us via Tomas Pospisek.
1811
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1812- Some bugs were fixed in the 'emergency relay agent options hologram'
1813 which is used to retain relay agent option contents from when the
1814 client was in INIT or REBIND states. This should solve problems where
1815 relay agent options were not echoed from the server, even when giaddr
1816 was set.
1817
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1818- dhclient now closes its descriptor to dhclient.leases prior to executing
1819 dhclient-script. Thanks to a patch from Tomas Pospisek.
1820
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1821- The server's "by client-id" and "by hardware address" hash table lists
1822 are now sorted according to the preference to re-allocate that lease to
1823 returning clients. This should eliminate pool starvation problems
1824 arising when "INIT" clients were given new leases rather than presently
1825 active ones.
1826
02428754 1827 Changes since 3.0.5rc1
0a73b7b6 1828
901306d5 1829- A bug was repaired in fixes to the dhclient, which sought to run the
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1830 dhclient-script with the 'EXPIRE' state should it receive a NAK in
1831 response to a REQUEST. The client now iterates the PREINIT state
1832 after the EXPIRE state, so that interfaces that might be configured
1833 'down' can be brought back 'up' and initialized.
1834
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1835- DHCPINFORM handling for clients that properly set ciaddr and come to the
1836 server via a relay aget has been repaired.
1837
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1838 Changes since 3.0.4
1839
1840- A warning that host statements declared within subnet or shared-network
1841 scopes are actually global has been added.
1842
1843- The default minimum lease time (if min-lease-time was not specified)
1844 was raised from 0 to 300. 0 is not thought to be sensible, and is
1845 known to be damaging.
1846
1847- Added additional fatal error sanity checks surrounding lease binding
1848 state count calculations (free/active counts used for failover pool
1849 balancing).
1850
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1851- Some time value size fixes in 3.0.4 brought on from FreeBSD /usr/ports were
1852 misapplied to server values rather than client values. The server no longer
1853 advertises 8-byte lease-time options when on 64-bit platforms.
1854
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1855- A bug where leases not in ACTIVE state would get billed to billed classes
1856 (classes with lease limitations) was fixed. Non-active leases OFFERed
1857 to clients are no longer billed (but billing is checked before offering).
1858
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1859- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated in regard to the ddns-domainname
1860 configuration option - the default configuration and results should be
1861 more clear now.
1862
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1863- If the dhclient were to receive a DHCPNAK while it was in the RENEW
1864 state (and consequently, had an active, 'bound' address and related
1865 configuration options), it would fail to 'tear down' this information
1866 before proceeding into INIT state. dhclient now iterates the dhclient-
1867 script with the 'EXPIRE' action to cause these teardowns prior to entering
1d3bfb17 1868 INIT state. Thanks to a patch from Chris Zimmerman.
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1870- The omapi.1 manpage had some formatting errors repaired thanks to a patch
1871 from Yoshihiko Sarumaru.
1872
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1873- A few lines of code that were failover-specific were moved within
1874 #if defined() clauses so that compilation without failover could be
1875 made possible.
1876
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1877- The log message emitted when the 'leased-address' value was not available
1878 in dhcpd.conf "executable statements" has been updated to be more helpful.
1879 Manpage information for this value has also been updated.
1880
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1881- Abandoned or dissociated (err condition) leases now remove any related
1882 dynamic dns bindings. Thanks to a patch from Patrick Schoo.
1883
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1884- Attempting to write a new lease file to replace a corrupt (due to
1885 encountering non-retryable errors during writing) lease file should
1886 no longer result in an infinite recursion.
1887
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1888- Host declaration hardware addresses and client identifiers may only be
1889 configured once. dhcpd will now fail to load config files that specify
1890 multiple identifiers (previous versions would silently over-ride the
1891 value with the later configured value).
1892
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1893- Several option codes that have been allocated since our last release
1894 have been named and documented.
1895
1896- Option names of the form "unknown-123" have been removed from the in-
1897 memory hash tables. In order to support options of these names that
1898 may appear in dhclient.leases or similar in previous versions, the
1899 parser will now find the new option code definition, or mock up a
1900 generic option code definition. This should result in a smooth
1901 transition from one name to the other, as the new name is used to
1902 write new output.
1903
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1904 Changes since 3.0.4rc1
1905
1906- The dhcp-options.5 manpage was updated to correct indentation errors
1907 thanks to a patch from Jean Delvare.
1908
1909 Changes since 3.0.4b3
1910
1911- Some manual pages were clarified pursuant to discussion on the dhcp-server
1912 mailing list.
1913
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1914 Changes since 3.0.4b2
1915
45d545f0 1916- Null-termination sensing for certain clients that unfortunately require
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1917 it in DHCPINFORM processing was repaired.
1918
1919- The host-name option and a few others were moved from "X" format to "t"
1920 format to be compatible with new NULL handling functions.
1921
1922- DHCPINFORM processing is a little more careful about return addressing
1923 its responses, or if responding via a relay. The INFORM related
1924 messages also log the 'effective client ip address' rather than the
1925 client's supplied ciaddr (since some clients produce null ciaddrs).
1926
1927- The server was inappropriately sending leases to the RESET state in the
1928 event that multiple active leases were found to match a singly-identified
1929 client. This was changed to RELEASED (by accepting a different, ACTIVE
1930 binding, the client is implicitly releasing its lease). This repairs a
1931 bug wherein secondary servers in failover pairs detecting this condition
1932 move leases to RESET, and primaries refuse to accept that state
1933 transition (properly).
1934
1935- The memset-after-dmalloc() changes made in 3.0.4b1 have been backed out.
1936
1937 Changes since 3.0.4b1
1938
1939- Command line parsing in omshell was repaired - it no longer closes
1940 STDIN after reading one line.
1941
1942- The resolver library no longer closes the /etc/resolv.conf file
1943 descriptor it opened twice.
1944
1945- Changes to trailing NULL removal in 't' option-atoms has been rethought,
1946 it now includes 'd' (domain name) types, and tries hard not to rewind an
1947 option beyond the start of the text field it is un-terminating.
1948
1949 Changes since 3.0.3
1950
1951- A DDNS update handling function was misusing the DNS error codes, rather
1952 than the internal generic result enumeration. The result is a confusing
1953 syslog line, logging the wrong condition.
1954
1955- The DHCP Server was not checking pool balance in the case where it brought
1956 a non-ACTIVE lease out of storage for a client that was returning to use
1957 a lease it once had long ago, and had since expired.
1958
1959- Failover peers no longer bother to look for free leases to allocate when
1960 they already found the client's ACTIVE lease. DISCOVERs are load balanced
98bd7ca0 1961 whether freely-allocated or not, unless the server doubts the peer has
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1962 leases to allocate.
1963
1964- Fixed a bug in dhcrelay agent addition code that suppressed trailing
45d545f0 1965 PAD options - it was suppressing only one trailing PAD option, rather
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1966 than the entire block of them.
1967
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1968! Fixed some unlikely overlapping-region memcpy() bugs in dhcrelay agent
1969 option addition and stripping code. Added a few sanity checks. Although
1970 highly improbable, due to requiring the reception of a DHCP datagram well
1971 in excess of all known to be used physical MTU limitations, it is possible
1972 this may have been used in a stack overflow security vulnerability. Thanks
1973 to a patch from infamous42md.
1974
1975! Added some sanity checks to OMAPI connection/authentication code.
1976 Although highly improbable, due to having to deliver in excess of 2^32
1977 bytes of data via the OMAPI channel, not to mention requiring dhcpd to
1978 be able to malloc() a memory region 2^32 bytes in size, it was possible
1979 this might have resulted in a heap overflow security vulnerability.
1980 Thanks to a patch from infamous42md.
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1981
1982- dmalloc() memset()'s the non-debug (data) portion of the allocated
1983 memory to zero. Code that memset()'s the result returned by dmalloc() to
1984 zero is redundant. These redundancies were removed.
1985
1986- Some type declaration corrections to u_int16_t were made in common/tr.c
4b97eaff 1987 (Token Ring support) thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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1988
1989- A failover bug that was allowing leases that EXPIRED or were RELEASED
1990 where tsfp and tstp are identical timestamps to languish in these
1991 transitional states has been repaired. As a side effect, lease
1992 databases should be kept more consistent overall, not just for these
1993 transitional states.
1994
1995- If the lease db is deleted out from under the daemon, and it moves to rewrite
1996 the db, it will go ahead with the operation and move the new db into place
1997 once it detects the old db does not exist.
1998
1999- dhclient now ignores IRDA, SIT, and IEEE1394 network interfaces, as it
2000 is either nonsensical or (in the case of IEEE1394) is not known to support
2001 these interfaces. Thanks to Marius Gedminas and Andrew Pollock of Debian.
2002
2003- Some previously undocumented reasons for dhclient-script invoking has
45d545f0 2004 been documented in the dhclient-script.8 manpage.
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2006- Failover potential expiry calculations (TSTP) have been corrected. Results
2007 should be substantially more consistent, and proper given the constraints.
2008
2009- Adjusted lease state validation checks in potential-conflict, to
2010 account for possible clock skew similarly to normal state, and several
2011 previously illegal transitions were made legal (ex: active->released).
2012
2013- An impossible sanity check was removed from omapi/buffer.c, thanks to a
2014 patch from 'infamous42md'.
2015
2016- An OMAPI host/network byte order problem in lease time values has been
2017 repaired.
2018
2019- Several minor bugs, largely relating to treating 8-byte time values as
2020 4-byte entities, have been repaired after careful review of the FreeBSD
2021 ports collection's patch set. Thanks to the nameless entities who have
2022 contributed to the FreeBSD ports.
2023
2024- When writing a trace file, the file is now created with permissions 0600,
2025 to help administrators avoid accidentally publicising sensitive config
2026 data.
2027
2028- The calculation of the maximum size of DHCP packets no longer includes
2029 Ethernet framing overhead. The result is that the 'Maximum Message
2030 Size' option advertised by clients, or the default value 576, is no
2031 longer reduced by 14 bytes, and instead directly reflects the IP level
2032 MTU (and the default, minimum allowed IP MTU of 576).
2033
2034- The special status of RELEASED/EXPIRED/RESET leases when a server
2035 is operating in partner-down was fixed. It no longer requires a
2036 lease be twice the MCLT beyond STOS to 'reallocate', and the expiry
2037 event to turn these into FREE leases without peer acknowledgement
2038 (after STOS+MCLT) has been repaired.
2039
2040- Compilation on older Solaris systems (lacking /usr/include/sys/int_types.h)
2041 has been repaired.
2042
2043- "append"ing a string onto the end of a "t" type option (such as the
2044 domain-name field) that had been improperly NULL-terminated by the
2045 DHCP server will no longer result in a truncated string containing
2046 only the option from the server, and not the expected appended value.
4b97eaff 2047 Thanks to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2048
2049- File handlers on configuration state (config files and lease dbs) should
98bd7ca0 2050 be treated consistently, regardless of whether TRACING is defined or not.
88cd8aca 2051
45d545f0 2052- The Linux build environment has had some minor improvements - better
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2053 sensing of 64-bit pointer sizes (only used for establishing an icmp_id),
2054 and corrections to #if operators regarding LINUX_MAJOR should it ever
2055 move to 3.[01].x.
2056
2057- The server now tries harder to survive the condition where it is unable
2058 to open a new lease file to rewrite the lease state database.
2059
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2060 Changes since 3.0.3b3
2061
2062- dhclient.conf documentation for interface {} was updated to reflect recent
2063 discussion on the dhcp-hackers mailing list.
2064
2065- In response to reports that the software does not compile on GCC 4.0.0,
2066 -Werror was removed from Makefile.conf for all platforms that used it.
2067 We will address the true problem in a future release; this is a temporary
2068 workaround.
2069
2070 Changes since 3.0.3b2
2071
2072- An error in code changes introduced in 3.0.3b2 was corrected, which caused
2073 static BOOTP clients to receive random addresses.
2074
2075 Changes since 3.0.3b1
2076
2077- A bug was fixed in BOOTPREQUEST handling code wherein stale references to
2078 host records would be left behind on leases that were not allocated to the
2079 client currently booting (eg in the case where the host was denied booting).
2080
2081- The dhcpd.conf.5 manpage was updated to be more clear in regards to
2082 multiple host declarations (thanks to Vincent McIntyre). 'Interim' style
2083 dynamic updates were also retouched.
2084
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2085 Changes since 3.0.2
2086
2087- A bug was fixed where a server might load balance a DHCP REQUEST to its
45d545f0 2088 peer after already choosing not to load balance the preceding DISCOVER.
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2089 The peer cannot allocate the originating server's lease.
2090
2091- In the case where a secondary server lost its stable storage while the
2092 primary was still in communications-interrupted, and came back online,
2093 the lease databases would not be fully transferred to the secondary.
2094 This was due to the secondary errantly sending an extra UPDREQ message
2095 when the primary made its state transition to PARTNER-DOWN known.
2096
2097- The package will now compile cleanly in gcc 3.3 and 3.4. As a side effect,
2098 lease structures will be 9 bytes smaller on all platforms. Thanks to
4b97eaff 2099 Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2100
2101- Interface discovery code in DISCOVER_UNCONFIGURED mode is now
2102 properly restricted to only detecting broadcast interfaces. Thanks
4b97eaff 2103 to a patch from Jason Vas Dias at Red Hat.
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2104
2105- decode_udp_ip_header was changed so that the IP address was copied out
2106 to a variable, rather than referenced by a pointer. This enforces 4-byte
2107 alignment of the 32-bit IP address value. Thanks to a patch from Dr.
2108 Peter Poeml.
2109
2110- An incorrect log message was corrected thanks to a patch from
2111 Dr. Peter Poeml.
2112
2113- A bug in DDNS was repaired, where if the server's first DDNS action was
2114 a DDNS removal rather than a DDNS update, the resolver library's
2115 retransmit timer and retry timer was set to the default, implying a
2116 15 second timeout interval. Which is a little excessive in a synchronous,
2117 single-threaded system. In all cases, ISC DHCP should now hold fast to
2118 a 1-second timeout, trying only once.
2119
2120- The siaddr field was being improperly set to the server-identifier when
2121 responding to DHCP messages. RFC2131 clarified the siaddr field as
2122 meaning the 'next server in the bootstrap process', eg a tftp server.
2123 The siaddr field is now left zeroed unless next-server is configured.
2124
2125- mockup_lease() could have returned in an error condition (or in the
2126 condition where no fixed-address was found matching the shared
2127 network) with stale references to a host record. This is probably not
2128 a memory leak since host records generally never die anyway.
2129
2130- A bug was repaired where failover servers would let stale client identifiers
2131 persist on leases that were reallocated to new clients not sending an id.
2132
2133- Binding scopes ("set var = value;") are now removed from leases allocated
2134 by failover peers if the lease had expired. This should help reduce the
2135 number of stale binding scopes on leases.
2136
2137- A small memory leak was closed involving client identifiers larger than
2138 7 bytes, and failover.
2139
2140- Configuring a subnet in dhcpd.conf with a subnet mask of 32 bits might
2141 cause an internal function to overflow heap. Thanks to Jason Vas Dias
4b97eaff 2142 at Red Hat.
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2143
2144- Some inconsistencies in treating numbers that the lexer parsed as 'NUMBER'
2145 or 'NUMBER_OR_NAME' was repaired. Hexadecimal parsing is affected, and
2146 should work better.
2147
2148- In several cases, parse warnings were being issued before the lexical
2149 token had been advanced to the token whose value was causing an error...
2150 causing parse warnings to claim the problem is on the wrong token.
2151
2152- Host declarations matching on client identifier for dynamic leases will
2153 no longer match fixed-address host declarations (this is now identical
2154 to behaviour for host records matching on hardware address).
2155
2156 Changes since 3.0.2rc3
2157
2158- A previously undocumented configuration directive, 'local-address',
2159 was documented in the dhcpd.conf manpage.
2160
2161 Changes since 3.0.2rc2
2162
45d545f0 2163- Two variables introduced in 3.0.2b1 were used without being initialized
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2164 in the case where neither the FILE nor SNAME fields were available for
2165 overloading. This was repaired.
2166
2167- A heretofore believed to be impossible corner case of the option
2168 overloading implementation turned out to be possible ("Unable to sort
2169 overloaded options after 10 tries."). The implementation was reworked
2170 to consider the case of an option so large it would require more than
2171 three chunks to fit.
2172
2173- Many other instances of variables being used without being initialized
2174 were repaired.
2175
2176- An uninitialized variable in omapi_io_destroy() led to the discovery
2177 that this function may result in orphaned pointers (and hence, a memory
2178 leak).
2179
2180 Changes since 3.0.2rc1
2181
2182- allocate_lease() was rewritten to repair a bug in which the server would
2183 try to allocate an ABANDONED lease when FREE leases were available.
2184
2185 Changes since 3.0.2b1
2186
2187- Some dhcp-eval.5 manpage formatting was repaired.
2188
2189 Changes since 3.0.1
2190
2191- A bug was fixed in the server's 'option overloading' implementation,
2192 where options loaded into the 'file' and 'sname' packet fields were
2193 not aligned precisely as rfc2131 dictates.
2194
2195- The FreeBSD client script was changed to support the case where a domain
2196 name was not provided by the server.
2197
2198- A memory leak in 'omshell' per each command line parsed was
2199 repaired, thanks to a patch from Jarkko Torppa.
2200
2201- Log functions writing to stderr were adjusted to use the STDERR_FILENO
2202 system definition rather than '2'. This is a no-op for 90% of platforms.
2203
2204- One call to trace_write_packet_iov() counted the number of io vectors
2205 incorrectly, causing inconsistent tracefiles. This was fixed.
2206
2207- Some expression parse failure memory leaks were closed.
2208
2209- A host byte order problem in tracefiles was repaired.
2210
2211- Pools configured in DHCPD for failover possessing permission lists that
2212 previously were assumed to not include dyanmic bootp clients are now
2213 a little more pessimistic. The result is, dhcpd will nag you about just
2214 about most pools that possess a 'allow' statement with no 'deny' that
2215 would definitely match a dynamic bootp client.
2216
2217- The 'ddns-update-style' configuration warning bit now insists that
2218 the configuration be globally scoped.
2219
2220- Two memory leaks in dhclient were closed thanks to a patch from Felix
2221 Farkas.
2222
2223- Some minor but excellently pedantic documentation errors were fixed
2224 thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2225
2226- Bugs in operator precedence in executable statements have been repaired
2227 once again. More legal syntaxes should be parsed legally.
2228
2229- Failing to initialize a tracefile for any reason if a tracefile was
2230 specified is now a fatal error. Thanks to a patch from Albert Herranz.
2231
2232- Corrected a bug in which the number of leases transferred as calculated
2233 by the failover primary and sent to peers in POOLRESP responses may be
2234 incorrect. This value is not believed to be used by other failover
2235 implementations, excepting perhaps as logged information.
2236
2237- Corrected a bug in which 'dhcp_failover_send_poolresp()' was in fact
2238 sending POOLREQ messages instead of POOLRESP mesasges. This message
2239 was essentially ignored since failover secondaries effectively do not
2240 respond to POOLREQ messages.
2241
2242- Type definitions for various bitwidths of integers in the sunos5-5
2243 build of ISC DHCP have been fixed. It should compile and run more
2244 easily when built in 64-bit for this platform.
2245
2246- "allow known-clients;" is now a legal syntax, to avoid confusion.
2247
2248- If one dhcp server chooses to 'load balance' a request to its failover
2249 peer, it first checks to see if it believes said peer has a free
2250 lease to allocate before ignoring the DISCOVER.
2251
2252- log() was logging a work buffer, rather than the value returned by
2253 executing the statements configured by the user. In some cases,
2254 the work buffer and the intended results were the same. In some other
2255 cases, they were not. This was fixed thanks to a patch from Gunnar
2256 Fjone and directconnect.no.
2257
2258- Compiler warnings for some string type conversions was fixed, thanks
2259 to Andreas Gustafsson.
2260
2261- The netbsd build environments were simplified to one, in which
2262 -Wconversion is not used, thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
2263
2264- How randomness in the backoff-cutoff dhclient configuration variable
2265 is implemented was better documented in the manpage, and the behaviour
2266 of dhclient in REQUEST timeout handling was changed to match that of
2267 DISCOVER timeout handling.
2268
2269- Omapi was hardened against clients that pass in null values, thanks
2270 to a patch from Mark Jason Dominus.
2271
2272- A bug was fixed in dhclient that kept it from doing client-side
2273 ddns updates. Thanks to a patch from Andreas Gustafsson, which
2274 underwent some modification after review by Jason Vas Dias.
2275
2276- Failover implementations disconnected due to the network between
2277 them (rather than one of the two shutting down) will now try to
2278 re-establish the failover connection every 5 seconds, rather than
2279 to simply try once and give up until one of them is restarted.
2280 Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from Infoblox, and field testing
2281 by Greger V. Teigre which led to an enhancement to it.
2282
2283- A problem that kept DHCP Failover secondaries from tearing down
2284 ddns records was repaired. Thanks to a patch from Ulf Ekberg from
2285 Infoblox.
2286
2287- 64bit pointer sizes are detected properly on FreeBSD now.
2288
2289- A bug was repaired where the DHCP server would leave stale references
2290 to host records on leases it once thought about offering to certain
2291 clients. The result would be to apply host and 'known' scopes to the
2292 wrong clients (possibly denying booting). NOTE: The 'mis-host' patch
2293 that was being circulated as a workaround is not the way this bug was
2294 fixed. If you were a victim of this bug in 3.0.1, you are cautioned
2295 to proceed carefully and see if it fixes your problem.
2296
2297- A bug was repaired in the server's DHCPINFORM handling, where it
2298 tried to divine the client's address from the source packet and
2299 would get it wrong. Thanks to Anshuman Singh Rawat.
2300
2301- A log message was introduced to help illuminate the case where the
2302 server was unable to find a lease to assign to any BOOTP client.
2303 Thanks to Daniel Baker.
2304
2305- A minor dhcpd.conf.5 manpage error was fixed.
2306
2307 Changes since 3.0.1rc14
2308
2309- The global variable 'cur_time' was centralized and is now uniformly of a
2310 type #defined in system-dependent headers. It had previously been defined
2311 in one of many places as a 32-bit value, and this causes mayhem on 64-bit
2312 big endian systems. It probably wasn't too healthy on little endian
2313 systems either.
2314
2315- A printf format string error introduced in rc14 was repaired.
2316
2317- AIX system-dependent header file was altered to only define NO_SNPRINTF
2318 if the condition used to #ifdef in vsnprintf in AIX' header files
2319 is false.
2320
2321- The Alpha/OSF system-dependent header file was altered to define
2322 NO_SNPRINTF on OS revisions older than 4.0G.
2323
2324- omapip/test.c had string.h added to its includes.
2325
2326 Changes since 3.0.1rc13
2327
2328! CAN-2004-0460 - CERT VU#317350: Five stack overflow exploits were closed
2329 in logging messages with excessively long hostnames provided by the
2330 clients. It is highly probable that these could have been used by
2331 attackers to gain arbitrary root access on systems using ISC DHCP 3.0.1
2332 release candidates 12 or 13. Special thanks to Gregory Duchemin for
2333 both finding and solving the problem.
2334
2335! CAN-2004-0461 - CERT VU#654390: Once the above was closed, an opening
45d545f0 2336 in log_*() functions was evidenced, on some specific platforms where
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2337 vsnprintf() was not believed to be available and calls were wrapped to
2338 sprintf() instead. Again, credit goes to Gregory Duchemin for finding
2339 the problem. Calls to snprintf() are now linked to a distribution-local
2340 snprintf implementation, only in those cases where the architecture is
2341 not known to provide one (see includes/cf/[arch].h). If you experience
2342 linking problems with snprintf/vsnprintf or 'isc_print_' functions, this
2343 is where to look. This vulnerability did not exist in any previously
2344 published version of ISC DHCP.
2345
2346- Compilation on hpux 11.11 was repaired.
2347
2348- 'The cross-compile bug fix' was backed out.
2349
2350 Changes since 3.0.1rc12
2351
2352- Fixed a bug in omapi lease lookup function, to form the hardware
2353 address for the hash lookup correctly, thanks to a patch from
2354 Richard Hirst.
2355
2356- Fixed a bug where dhcrelay was sending relayed responses back to the
2357 broadcast address, but with the source's unicast mac address. Should
2358 now conform to rfc2131 section 4.1.
2359
2360- Cross-compile bug fix; use $(AR) instead of ar. Thanks to Morten Brorup.
2361
2362- Fixed a crash bug in dhclient where dhcpd servers that do not provide
2363 renewal times results in an FPE. As a side effect, dhclient can now
2364 properly handle 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) expiry times supplied by servers. Thanks
2365 to a patch from Burt Silverman.
2366
2367- The 'ping timeout' debugs from rc12 were removed to -DDEBUG only,
45d545f0 2368 and reformatted to correct a compilation error on Solaris platforms.
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2369
2370- A patch was applied which fixes a case where leases read from the
2371 leases database do not properly over-ride previously read leases.
2372
2373- dhcpctl.3 manpage was tweaked.
2374
2375 Changes since 3.0.1rc11
2376
2377- A patch from Steve Campbell was applied with minor modifications to
2378 permit reverse dns PTR record updates with values containing spaces.
2379
2380- A patch from Florian Lohoff was applied with some modifications to
2381 dhcrelay. It now discards packets whose hop count exceeds 10 by default,
2382 and a command-line option (-c) can be used to set this threshold.
2383
2384- A failover bug relating to identifying peers by name length instead of
2385 by name was fixed.
2386
45d545f0 2387- Declaring failover configs within shared-network statements should no
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2388 longer result in error.
2389
2390- The -nw command line option to dhclient now works.
2391
2392- Thanks to a patch from Michael Richardson:
2393 - Some problems with long option processing have been fixed.
2394 - Some fixes to minires so that updates of KEY records will work.
2395
2396- contrib/ms2isc was updated by Shu-Min Chang of the Intel Corporation.
2397 see contrib/ms2isc/readme.txt for revision notes.
2398
2399- Dhclient no longer uses shell commands to kill another instance of
2400 itself, it sends the signal directly. Thanks to a patch from Martin
2401 Blapp.
2402
2403- The FreeBSD dhclient-script was changed so that a failure to write to
2404 /etc/resolv.conf does not prematurely end the script. This keeps dhclient
2405 from looping infinitely when this is the case. Thanks to a patch from
2406 Martin Blapp.
2407
2408- A patch from Bill Stephens was applied which resolves a problem with lease
2409 expiry times in failover configurations.
2410
2411- A memory leak in configuration parsing was closed thanks to a patch from
2412 Steve G.
2413
2414- The function which discovers interfaces will now skip non-broadcast or
2415 point-to-point interfaces, thanks to a patch from David Brownlee.
2416
2417- Options not yet known by the dhcpd or dhclient have had their names
2418 changed such that they do not contain # symbols, in case they should ever
2419 appear in a lease file. An option that might have been named "#144" is
2420 now "unknown-144".
2421
2422- Another patch from Bill Stephens which allows the ping-check timeout to
2423 be configured as 'ping-timeout'. Defaults to 1.
2424
2425 Changes since 3.0.1rc10
2426
2427- Potential buffer overflows in minires repaired.
2428
2429- A change to the linux client script to use /bin/bash, since /bin/sh may
2430 not be bash.
2431
2432- Some missing va_end cleanups thanks to a patch from Thomas Klausner.
2433
2434- A correction of boolean parsing syntax validation - some illegal syntaxes
2435 that worked before are now detected and produce errs, some legal syntaxes
2436 that errored before will now work properly.
2437
2438- Some search-and-replace errors that caused some options to change their
2439 names was repaired.
2440
2441- Shu-min Chang of the Intel corporation has contributed a perl script and
2442 module that converts the MS NT4 DHCP configuration to a ISC DHCP3
2443 configuration file.
2444
2445- Applied the remainder of the dhcpctl memory leak patch provided by Bill
2446 Squier at ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2447
2448- Missing non-optional failover peer configurations will now result in a soft
2449 error rather than a null dereference.
2450
2451 Changes since 3.0.1rc9
2452
2453- A format string was corrected to fix compiler warnings.
2454
2455- A number of spelling corrections were made in the man pages.
2456
2457- The dhclient.conf.5 man page was changed to refer to do-forward-updates
2458 rather than a configuration option that doesn't exist.
2459
2460- A FreeBSD-specific bug in the interface removal handling was fixed.
2461
2462- A Linux-specific Token Ring detection problem was fixed.
2463
2464- Hashes removed from as-yet-unknown agent options, having those options
2465 appear in reality before we know about them will no longer produce
2466 self-corrupting lease databases.
2467
2468- dhclient will use the proper port numbers now when using the -g option.
2469
2470- A order-of-operations bug with 2 match clauses in 1 class statement is
2471 fixed thanks to a patch from Andrew Matheson.
2472
2473- Compilation problems on Solaris were fixed.
2474
2475- Compilation problems when built with DEBUG or DEBUG_PACKET were repaired.
2476
2477- A fix to the dhcp ack process which makes certain group options will be
2478 included in the first DHCPOFFER message was made thanks to a patch from
2479 Ling Gou.
2480
2481- A few memory leaks were repaired thanks to patches from Bill Squier at
2482 ReefEdge, Inc. (groo@reefedge.com).
2483
2484- A fix for shared-networks that sometimes give clients options for the
2485 wrong subnets (in particular, 'option routers') was applied, thanks to
2486 Ted Lemon for the patch.
2487
2488- Omshell's handling of dotted octets as values was changed such that dots
2489 one after the other produce zero values in the integer string.
2490
2491 Changes since 3.0.1rc8
2492
2493- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
2494 remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
2495
2496- Add additional support for NetBSD/sparc64.
2497
2498- Fix a bug in the command-line parsing of the client. Also, resolve
2499 a memory leak.
2500
2501- Add better support for shells other than bash in the Linux client
2502 script.
2503
2504- Various build fixes for modern versions of FreeBSD and Linux.
2505
2506- Fix a bad bounds check when printing binding state names.
2507
2508- Clarify documentation about fixed-address and multiple addresses.
2509
2510- Fix a typo in the authoritative error message.
2511
2512- Make a log entry when we can't write a billing class.
2513
2514- Use conversion targets that are the right size on all architectures.
2515
2516- Increment the hop count when relaying.
2517
2518- Log a message when lease state is changed through OMAPI.
2519
2520- Don't rerun the shared_network when evaluating the pool.
2521
2522- Fix a reversed test in the parser.
2523
2524- Change the type of rbuf_max.
2525
2526- Make FTS_LAST a manifest constant to quiet warnings.
2527
2528 Changes since 3.0.1rc7
2529
2530- Fix two compiler warnings that are generated when compiling on Solaris
2531 with gcc. These stop the build, even though they weren't actually
2532 errors, because we prefer that our builds generate no warnings.
2533
2534 Changes since 3.0.1rc6
2535
2536- Don't allow a lease that's in the EXPIRED, RELEASED or RESET state
2537 to be renewed.
2538
2539- Implement lease stealing for cases where the primary has fewer leases
2540 than the secondary, as called for by the standard.
2541
2542- Add a fudge factor to the lease expiry acceptance code, (suggested
2543 by Kevin Miller of CMU).
2544
2545- Fix a bug in permit_list_match that made it much too willing to say
2546 that two permit lists matched.
2547
2548- Unless DEBUG_DNS_UPDATES is defined, print more user-friendly (and
2549 also more compact) messages about DNS updates.
2550
2551- Fix a bug in generating wire-format domain names for the FQDN option.
2552
2553- Fix a bug where the FQDN option would not be returned if the client
2554 requested it, contrary to the standard.
2555
2556- On Darwin, use the FreeBSD DHCP client script.
2557
2558- On NetBSD/sparc, don't check for casting warnings.
2559
2560- Add a flag in the DHCP client to disable updating the client's A
2561 record when sending an FQDN option indicating that the client is
2562 going to update its A record.
2563
2564- In the client, don't attempt a DNS update until one second after
2565 configuring the new IP address, and if the update times out, keep
2566 trying until a response, positive or negative, is received from the
2567 DNS server.
2568
2569- Fix an uninitialized memory bug in the DHCP client.
2570
2571- Apply some FreeBSD-specific bug fixes suggested by Murray Stokely.
2572
2573- Fix a bug in ns_parserr(), where it was returning the wrong sort
2574 of result code in some cases (suggested by Ben Harris of the
2575 NetBSD project).
2576
2577- Fix a bug in is_identifier(), where it was checking against EOF
2578 instead of the END_OF_FILE token (also suggested by Ben Harris).
2579
2580- Fix a bug where if an option universe contained no options, the
2581 DHCP server could dump core (Walter Steiner).
2582
2583- Fix a bug in the handling of encapsulated options.
2584
2585- Fix a bug that prevented NWIP suboptions from being processed.
2586
2587- Delete the FTS_BOOTP and FTS_RESERVED states and implement them
2588 as modifier flags to the FTS_ACTIVE state, as called for in the
2589 failover protocol standard.
2590
2591- Fix bugs in the pool merging code that resulted in references and
2592 dereferences of null pointers. This bug had no impact unless the
2593 POINTER_DEBUG flag was defined.
2594
2595- In the server, added a do-forward-updates flag that can be used to
2596 disable forward updates in all cases, so that sites that want the
2597 clients to take sole responsibility for updating their A record can
2598 do so.
2599
2600- Make it possible to disable optimization of PTR record updates.
2601
2602 Changes since 3.0.1rc5
2603
2604- Include some new documentation and changes provided by Karl Auer.
2605
2606- Add a workaround for some Lexmark printers that send a double-NUL-
2607 terminated host-name option, which would break DNS updates.
2608
2609- Fix an off-by-one error in the MAC-address checking code for
2610 DHCPRELEASE that was added in 3.0.1rc5.
2611
2612- Fix a bug where client-specific information was not being discarded
2613 from the lease when it expired or was released, resulting in
2614 problems if the lease was reallocated to a different client.
2615
2616- If more than one allocation pool is specified that has the same set
2617 of constraints as another allocation pool on the same shared
2618 network, merge the two pools.
2619
2620- Don't print an error in fallback_discard, since this just causes
2621 confusion and does not appear to be helping to encourage anyone to
2622 fix this bug.
2623
2624 Changes since 3.0.1rc4
2625
2626- Fix a bug that would cause the DHCP server to spin if asked to parse
2627 a certain kind of incorrect statement.
2628
2629- Fix a related bug that would prevent an error from being reported in
2630 the same case.
2631
2632- Additional documentation.
2633
2634- Make sure that the hardware address matches the lease when
2635 processing a DHCPRELEASE message.
2636
2637 Changes since 3.0.1rc3
2638
2639- A minor bug fix in the arguments to a logging function call.
2640- Documentation update for dhcpd.conf.
2641
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2643
2644- Allow the primary to send a POOLREQ message. This isn't what the current
2645 failover draft says to do, so we may have to back it out if I can't get the
2646 authors to relent, but the scheme for balancing that's specified in the
2647 current draft seems needlessly hairy, so I'm floating a trial balloon.
2648 The rc1 code did not implement the method described in the draft either.
2649
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2651
2652- Treat NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET as success when we are trying to delete a
2653 domain or RRSET. This allows the DHCP server to forget about a name
2654 it added to the DNS once it's been removed, even if the DHCP server
2655 wasn't the one that removed it.
2656
2657- Install defaults for failover maximum outstanding updates and maximum
2658 silent time. This prevents problems that might occur if these values
2659 were not configured.
2660
2661- Don't do DDNS deletes if ddns-update-style is none.
2662
2663- Return relay agent information options in DHCPNAK. This prevents DHCPNAK
2664 messages from being dropped when the relay agent information option contains
2665 routing information.
2666
2667- Fix a problem where coming up in recover wouldn't result in an update
2668 request being sent.
2669
2670- Add some more chatty messages when we start a recovery update and when it's
2671 done.
2672
2673- Fix a possible problem where some state might have been left around
2674 after the peer lost contact and regained contact about how many updates
2675 were pending.
2676
2677- Don't nix a lease update because of a lease conflict. This test has
2678 never (as far as I know) prevented a mistake, and it appears to cause
2679 problems with failover.
2680
2681- Add support in rc history code for keeping a selective history, rather
2682 than a history of all references and dereferences. This code is only used
2683 when extensive additional debugging is enabled.
2684
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98311e4b
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2686
2687- Make allocators for hash tables. As a side effect, this fixes a memory
2688 smash in the subclass allocation code.
2689
2690- Fix a small bug in omshell where if you try to close an object when
2691 no object is open, it dumps core.
2692
2693- Fix an obscure coredump that could occur on shutdown.
2694
2695- Fix a bug in the recording of host declaration rubouts in the lease file.
2696
2697- Fix two potential spins in the host deletion code.
2698
2699- Fix a core dump that would happen if an application tried to update
2700 a host object attribute with a null value.
2701
2702 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
2703
2704- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
2705
2706- Fix an obscure core dump.
2707
2708- Print a couple of new warnings when parsing the configuration file
2709 when crucial information is left out.
2710
2711- Log "no free leases" as an error.
2712
2713- Documentation updates.
2714
2715 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 11
2716
2717- Always return a subnet selection option if one is sent.
2718
2719- Fix a warning that was being printed because an automatic data
2720 structure wasn't zeroed.
2721
2722- Fix some failover state transitions that were being handled
2723 incorrectly.
2724
2725- When supersede_lease is called on a lease whose end time has already
2726 expired, but for which a state transition has not yet been done, do
2727 a state transition. This fixes the case where if the secondary
2728 allocated a lease to a client and the lease "expired" while the
2729 secondary was in partner-down, no expiry event would actually
2730 happen, so the lease would remain active until the primary was
2731 restarted.
2732
2733 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 10
2734
2735- Fix a bug that was preventing released leases from changing state
2736 in failover-enabled pools.
2737
2738- Fix a core dump in the client identifier finder code (for host
2739 declarations).
2740
2741- Finish fixing a bug where bogus data would sometimes get logged to
2742 the dhclient.leases file because it was opened as descriptor 2.
2743
2744- Fix the Linux dhclient-script according to suggestions made by
2745 several people on the dhcp-client mailing list.
2746
2747- Log successful DNS updates at LOG_INFO, not LOG_ERROR.
2748
2749- Print an error message and refuse to run if a failover peer is
2750 defined but not referenced by any pools.
2751
2752- Correct a confusing error message in failover.
2753
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2754 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 9
2755
2756- Fix a bug in lease allocation for Dynamic BOOTP clients.
2757
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2758 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 2
2759
2760- Fix a bug that prevented update-static-leases from working.
2761
2762- Document failover-state OMAPI object.
2763
2764- Fix a compilation error on SunOS 4.
2765
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2766 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8 Patchlevel 1
2767
2768- Fix a parsing bug that broke dns updates (both interim and ad-hoc).
2769 This was introduced in rc8pl1 as an unintended result of the memory
2770 leakage fixes that were in pl1.
2771
2772- Fix a long-standing bug where the server would record that an update
2773 had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
2774 been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
2775 that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
2776 string.
2777
2778- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
2779
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2780 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 8
2781
2782- Fix a bug that could cause the DHCP server to spin if
2783 one-lease-per-client was enabled.
2784
2785- Fix a bug that was causing core dumps on BSD/os in the presence of
2786 malformed packets.
2787
2788- In partner-down state, don't restrict lease lengths to MCLT.
2789
2790- On the failover secondary, record the MCLT received from the primary
2791 so that if we come up without a connection to the primary we don't
2792 wind up giving out zero-length leases.
2793
2794- Fix some compilation problems on BSD/os.
2795
2796- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
2797
2798- Fix a couple of bugs in the option printer.
2799
2800- Fix an obscure error reporting bug in the dns update code, and also
2801 make the message clearer when a key algorithm isn't supported.
2802
2803- Fix a bug in the tracing code that prevented trace runs that used
2804 tcp connections from being played back.
2805
2806- Add some additional debugging capability for catching memory leaks
2807 on exit.
2808
2809- Make the client release the lease correctly on shutdown.
2810
2811- Add some configurability to the build system.
2812
2813- Install omshell manual page in man1, not man8.
2814
2815- Craig Gwydir sent in a patch that fixes a long-standing bug in the
2816 DHCP client that could cause core dumps, but that for some reason
2817 hadn't been noticed until now.
2818
2819 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 7
2820
2821- Fix a bug in failover where we weren't sending updates after a
2822 transition from communications-interrupted to normal.
2823
2824- Handle expired/released/reset -> free transition according to the
2825 protocol specification (this works - the other way not only wasn't
2826 conformant, but also didn't work).
2827
2828- Add a control object in both client and server that allows either
2829 daemon to be shut down cleanly.
2830
2831- When writing a lease, if we run out of disk space, shut down the
2832 output file and insist on writing a new one before proceeding.
2833
2834- In the server, if the OMAPI listener port is occupied, keep trying
2835 to get it, rather than simply giving up and exiting.
2836
2837- Support fetching variables from leases and also updating and adding
2838 variables to leases via OMAPI.
2839
2840- If two failover peers have wildly different clocks, refuse to start
2841 doing failover.
2842
2843- Fix a bug in the DNS update code that could cause core dumps when
2844 running on alpha processors.
2845
2846- Fixed a bug in ddns updates for static lease entries, thanks to a
2847 patch from Andrey M Linkevitch.
2848
2849- Add support for Darwin/MacOS X
2850
2851- Install omshell (including new documentation).
2852
2853- Support DNS updates in the client (this is a very obscure feature
2854 that most DHCP client users probably will not be able to use).
2855
2856- Somewhat cleaner status logging in the client.
2857
2858- Make OMAPI key naming syntax compatible with the way keys are
2859 actually named (key names are domain names).
2860
2861- Fix a bug in the lease file writer.
2862
2863- Install DHCP ISC headers in a different place than BIND 9 ISC
2864 headers, to avoid causing trouble in BIND 9 builds.
2865
2866- Don't send updates for attributes on an object when the attributes
2867 haven't changed. Support deleting attributes on remote objects.
2868
2869- Fix a number of bugs in omshell, and add the unset and refresh
2870 statements.
2871
2872- Handle disconnects in OMAPI a little bit more intelligently (so that
2873 the caller gets ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL).
2874
2875- Fix a bunch of bugs in the handling of clients that have existing
2876 leases when the try to renew their leases while failover is
2877 operating.
2878
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2879 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 6
2880
2881- Fix a core dump that could happen when processing a DHCPREQUEST from
2882 a client that had a host declaration that contained both a
2883 fixed-address declaration and a dhcp-client-identifier option
2884 declaration, if the client identifier was longer than nine bytes.
2885
2886- Fix a memory leak that could happen in certain obscure cases when
2887 using omapi to manipulate leases.
2888
2889- Fix some bugs and omissions in omshell.
2890
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2891 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 5
2892
2893- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that prevented objects in
2894 chains from having their reference counts decreased on dereference.
2895
2896- Fix a bug in omapi_object_dereference that would prevent object
2897 chains from being freed upon removal of the last reference external
2898 to the chain.
2899
2900- Fix a number of other memory leaks in the OMAPI protocol subsystem.
2901
2902- Add code in the OMAPI protocol handler to trace memory leakage.
2903
2904- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
2905
98311e4b 2906- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
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2907 attribute values in omshell.
2908
98311e4b 2909- Fix a typo in the Linux interface discovery code.
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2910
2911- Conditionalize a piece of trace code that wasn't conditional.
2912
2913 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 4
2914
2915- Fix a bug that would prevent leases from being abandoned properly on
2916 DHCPDECLINE.
2917
2918- Fix failover peer OMAPI support.
2919
2920- In failover, correctly handle expiration of leases. Previously,
2921 leases would never be reclaimed because they couldn't make the
2922 transition from EXPIRED to FREE.
2923
2924- Fix some broken failover state transitions.
2925
2926- Documentation fixes.
2927
2928- Take out an unnecessary check in DHCP relay agent information option
2929 stashing code that was preventing REBINDING clients from rebinding.
2930
2931- Prevent failover peers from allocating leases in DHCPREQUEST
2932 processing if the lease belongs to the other server.
2933
2934- Record server version in lease file introductory comment.
2935
2936- Correctly report connection errors in OMAPI and failover.
2937
2938- Make authentication signature algorithm name comparisons in OMAPI
2939 case-insensitive.
2940
2941- Fix compile problem on SunOS 4.x
2942
98311e4b 2943- If a signature algorithm is not terminated with '.', terminate it so
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2944 that comparisons between fully-qualified names will work
2945 consistently.
2946
2947- Different SIOCGIFCONF probe code, may "fix" problem on some Linux
2948 systems with the probe not working correctly.
2949
2950- Don't allow user to type omapi key on command line of omshell.
2951
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2952 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 3
2953
2954- Do lease billing on startup in a way that I *think* will finally do
2955 the billing correctly - the previous method could overbill as a
2956 result of duplicate leases.
2957
2958- Document OMAPI server objects.
2959
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2960 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Patchlevel 1
2961
2962- Fix some problems in the DDNS update code. Thanks to Albert
2963 Herranz for figuring out the main problem.
2964
2965- Fix some reference counting errors on host entries that were causing
2966 core dumps.
2967
2968- Fix a byte-swap bug in the token ring code, thanks to Jochen
2969 Friedrich.
2970
2971- Fix a bug in lease billing, thanks to Jonas Bulow.
2972
2973 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 2
2974
2975- Change the conditions under which a DHCPRELEASE is actually
2976 committed to be consistent with lease binding states rather than
98311e4b 2977 using the lease end time. This may fix some problems with the
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2978 billing class code.
2979
2980- Fix a bug where lease updates would fail on Digital Unix (and maybe
2981 others) because malloc was called with a size of zero.
2982
2983- Fix a core dump that happens when the DHCP server can't create its
2984 trace file.
2985
79ea3de8 2986 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Patchlevel 1
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2988- Fix the dhcp_failover_put_message to not attempt to allocate a
2989 zero-length buffer. Some versions of malloc() fail if you try to
2990 allocate a zero-length buffer, and this was causing problems on,
2991 e.g., Digital Unix.
2992
2993- Fix a case where the failover code was printing an error message
2994 when no error had occurred.
2995
2996- Fix a problem where when a server went down and back up again, the
2997 peer would not see a state transition and so would stay in the
2998 non-communicating state.
2999
3000- Be smart about going into recover_wait.
3001
3002- Fix a problem in the failover implementation where peers would fail
3003 to come into sync if interrupted in the RECOVER state. This could
3004 have been the cause of some problems people have reported recently.
3005
3006- Fix a problem with billing classes where they would not be unbilled
3007 when the client lease expired.
3008
3009- If select fails, figure out which descriptor is bad, and cut it out
3010 of the I/O loop. This prevents a potentially nasty spin. I
3011 haven't heard any report it in a while, but it came up consistently
3012 in testing.
3013
3014- Fix a bug in the relay agent where if you specified interfaces on
3015 the command line, it would fail.
3016
3017- Fix a couple of small bugs in the omapi connection object (no known
3018 user impact).
3019
3020- Add the missing 3.0 Beta 1 lease conversion script.
3021
3022- Read dhcp client script hooks if they exist, rather than only if
3023 they're executable.
3024
3025 Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 1
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3026
3027- Fix a memory smash that happens when fixed-address leases are used.
3028 ANY SITE AT WHICH FIXED-ADDRESS STATEMENTS ARE BEING USED SHOULD
3029 UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. This has been a long-standing bug - thanks to
3030 Alvise Nobile for discovering it and helping me to find it!
3031
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3032- Fix a small bug in binary-to-ascii, thanks to H. Peter Anvin of
3033 Transmeta.
3034
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3035- There is a known problem with the DHCP server doing failover on
3036 Compaq Alpha systems. This patchlevel is not a release candidate
3037 because of this bug. The bug should be straightforward to fix, so
3038 a new release candidate is expected shortly.
3039
3040- There is a known problem in the DDNS update code that is probably a
3041 bug, and is not, as far as we know, fixed in this patchlevel.
3042
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3043 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 24
3044
3045- Went over problematic failover state transitions and made them all
3046 work, so that failover should now much less fragile.
3047
3048- Add some dhcpctl and omapi documentation
3049
3050- Fix compile errors when compiling with unusual predefines.
3051
3052- Make Token Ring work on Linux 2.4
3053
3054- Fix the Digital Unix BPF_WORDALIGN bug.
3055
3056- Fix some dhcp client documentation errors.
3057
3058- Update some parts of the README file.
3059
3060- Support GCC on SCO.
3061
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3063
3064- Fix a bug in the DNS update code where a status code was not being
3065 checked. This may have been causing core dumps.
3066
3067- When parsing the lease file, if a lease declaration includes a
3068 billing class statement, and the lease already has a billing class,
3069 unbill the old class.
3070
3071- When processing failover transactions, where acks will be deferred,
3072 process the state transition immediately.
3073
3074- Don't try to use the new SIOCGIFCONF buffer size detection code on
3075 Linux 2.0, which doesn't provide this functionality.
3076
3077- Apply a patch suggested by Tuan Uong for a problem in dlpi.c.
3078
3079- Fix a problem in using the which command in the configure script.
3080
3081- Fix a parse error in the client when setting up an omapi listener.
3082
3083- Document the -n and -g flags to the client.
3084
3085- Make sure there is always a stdin and stdout on startup. This
3086 prevents shell scripts from accidentally writing error messages into
3087 configuration files that happen to be opened as stderr.
3088
3089- If an interface is removed, the client will now notice that it is
3090 gone rather than spinning. This has only been tested on NetBSD.
3091
3092- The client will attempt to get an address even if it can't create a
3093 lease file.
3094
3095- Don't overwrite tracefiles.
3096
3097- Fix some memory allocation bugs in failover.
2aa36519 3098
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3100
3101- Apply some patches suggested by Cyrille Lefevre, who is maintaining
3102 the FreeBSD ISC DHCP Distribution port.
3103
3104- Fix a core dump in DHCPRELEASE.
3105
adbef119 3106 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 21
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3107
3108- This time for sure: fix the spin described in the changes for pl20.
3109
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3111
3112- Fix a problem with Linux detecting large numbers of interfaces (Ben)
3113
3114- Fix a memory smash in the quotify code, which was introduced in
3115 pl19.
3116
3117- Actually fix the spin described in the changes for pl20. The
3118 previous fix only partially fixed the problem - enough to get it
3119 past the regression test.
3120
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3122
3123- Fix a bug that could cause the server to abort if compiled with
3124 POINTER_DEBUG enabled.
3125
3126- Fix a bug that could cause the server to spin when responding to a
3127 DHCPREQUEST.
3128
3129- Apply Joost Mulders' suggested patches for DLPI on x86.
3130
3131- Support NUL characters in quoted strings.
3132
3133- Install unformatted man pages on SunOS.
3134
adbef119 3135 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 18
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3137- Allow the server to be placed in partner-down state using OMAPI.
3138 (Damien Neil)
3139
3140- Implement omshell, which can be used to do arbitrary things to the
3141 server (in theory). (Damien Neil)
3142
3143- Fix a case where if a client had two different leases the server could
3144 actually dereference the second one when it hadn't been referenced,
3145 leading to memory corruption and a core dump. (James Brister)
3146
3147- Fix a case where a client could request the address of another client's
3148 lease, but find_lease wouldn't detect that the other client had it, and
3149 would attempt to allocate it to the client, resulting in a lease conflict
3150 message.
3151
3152- Fix a case where a client with more than one client identifier could be
3153 given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
3154 identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
3155
98311e4b 3156- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
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3157 hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
3158 The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
3159 non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So
3160 a file written the old way still won't work, but new files written
3161 this way will work.
3162
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3163- Fix documentation for sending non-standard options.
3164
3165- Use unparsable names for unknown options. WARNING: this will
3166 break any configuration files that use the option-nnn convention.
3167 If you want to continue to use this convention for some options,
3168 please be sure to write a definition, like this:
3169
3170 option option-nnn code nnn = string;
3171
3172 You can use a descriptive name instead of option-nnn if you like.
3173
3174- Fix a problem where we would see a DHCPDISCOVER/DHCPOFFER/
3175 DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK/DHCPREQUEST/DHCPNAK sequence. This was the
3176 result of a deceptively silly bug in supersede_lease.
3177
3178- Fix client script exit status check, according to a fix supplied by
3179 Hermann Lauer.
3180
3181- Fix an endianness bug in the tracefile support, regarding ICMP
3182 messages.
3183
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3184- Fix a bug in the client where the medium would not work correctly if
3185 it contained quoted strings.
3186
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3187 ** there was no pl17 **
3188
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3191- Add support for transaction tracing. This allows the state of the
3192 DHCP server on startup, and all the subsequent transactions, to be
3193 recorded in a file which can then be played back to reproduce the
3194 behaviour of the DHCP server. This can be used to quickly
3195 reproduce bugs that cause core dumps or corruption, and also for
3196 tracking down memory leaks.
3197
3198- Incorporate some bug fixes provided by Joost Mulders for the DLPI
3199 package which should clear up problems people have been seeing on
3200 Solaris.
3201
3202- Fix bugs in the handling of options stored as linked lists (agent
3203 options, fqdn options and nwip options) that could cause memory
3204 corruption and core dumps.
3205
3206- Fix a bug in DHCPREQUEST handling that resulted in DHCPNAK messages
3207 not being send in some cases when they were needed.
3208
3209- Make the lease structure somewhat more compact.
3210
3211- Make initial failover startup *much* faster. This was researched
3212 and implemented by Damien Neil.
3213
3214- Add a --version flag to all executables, which prints the program
3215 name and version to standard output.
3216
3217- Don't rewrite the lease file every thousand leases.
3218
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3219- A bug in nit.c for older SunOS machines was fixed by a patch sent in
3220 by Takeshi Hagiwara.
3221
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3222- Fix a memory corruption bug in the DHCP client.
3223
3224- Lots of documentation updates.
3225
3226- Add a feature allowing environment variables to be passed to the
3227 DHCP client script on the DHCP client command line.
3228
3229- Fix client medium support, which had been broken for some time.
3230
3231- Fix a bug in the DHCP client initial startup backoff interval, which
3232 would cause two DHCPDISCOVERS to be sent back-to-back on startup.
3233
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3235
3236- Some documentation tweaks.
3237
3238- Maybe fix a problem in the DLPI code.
3239
3240- Fix some error code space inconsistencies in ddns update code.
3241
3242- Support relay agents that intercept unicast DHCP messages to stuff
3243 agent options into them.
3244
3245- Fix a small memory leak in the relay agent option support code.
3246
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3247- Fix a core dump that would occur if a packet was sent with no
3248 options.
3249
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3251
3252- Finish fixing a long-standing bug in the agent options code. This
3253 was causing core dumps and failing to operate correctly - in
3254 particular, agent option stashing wasn't working. Agent option
3255 stashing should now be working, meaning that agent options can be
3256 used in class statements to control address allocation.
3257
3258- Fix up documentation.
3259
3260- Fix a couple of small memory leaks that would have added up
3261 significantly in a high-demand situation.
3262
3263- Add a log-facility configuration parameter.
3264
3265- Fix a compile error on some older operating systems.
3266
3267- Add the ability in the client to execute certain statements before
3268 transmitting packets to the server. Handy for debugging; not much
3269 practical use otherwise.
3270
3271- Don't send faked-out giaddr when renewing or bound - again, useful
3272 for debugging.
3273
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3275
3276- Fixed a problem where the fqdn decoder would sometimes try to store
3277 an option with an (unsigned) negative length, resulting in a core
3278 dump on some systems.
3279
3280- Work around the Win98 DHCP client, which NUL-terminates the FQDN
3281 option.
3282
3283- Work around Win98 and Win2k clients that will claim they want to do
3284 the update even when they don't have any way to do it.
3285
3286- Fix some log messages that can be printed when failover is operating
3287 that were not printing enough information.
3288
3289- It was possible for a DHCPDISCOVER to get an allocation even when
3290 the state machine said the server shouldn't be responding.
3291
3292- Don't load balance DHCPREQUESTs from clients in RENEWING and
3293 REBINDING, since in RENEWING, if we heard it, it's for us, and in
3294 REBINDING, the client wouldn't have got to REBINDING if its primary
3295 were answering.
3296
3297- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
3298 the transition.
3299
3300
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3302
3303- Fixed a couple of silly compile errors.
3304
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3305 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 11
3306
3307- Albert Herranz tracked down and fixed a subtle bug in the base64
3308 decoder that would prevent any key with an 'x' in its base64
3309 representation from working correctly.
3310
3311- Thanks to Chris Cheney and Michael Sanders, we have a fix for the
3312 hang that they both spotted in the DHCP server - when
3313 one-lease-per-client was set, the code to release the "other" lease
3314 could spin.
3315
3316- Fix a problem with alignment of the input buffer in bpf in cases
3317 where two packets arrive in the same bpf read.
3318
3319- Fix a problem where the relay agent would crash if you specified an
3320 interface name on the command line.
3321
3322- Add the ability to conditionalize client behaviour based on the
3323 client state.
3324
3325- Add support for the FQDN option, and added support for a new way of
3326 doing ddns updates (ddns update style interim) that allows more than
3327 one DHCP server to update the DNS for the same network(s). This
3328 was implemented by Damien Neil with some additional functionality
3329 added by Ted Lemon.
3330
3331- Damien added a "log" statement, so that the configuration file can
3332 be made to log debugging information and other information.
3333
3334- Fixed a bug that caused option buffers not to be terminated with an
3335 end option.
3336
3337- Fixed a long-standing bug in the support for option spaces where the
3338 options are stored as an ordered list rather than in a hash table,
3339 which could theoretically result in memory pool corruption.
3340
3341- Prevent hardware declarations with no actual hardware address from
3342 being written as something unparsable, and behave correctly in the
3343 face of a null hardware address on input.
3344
3345- Allow key names to be FQDNs, and qualify the algorithm name if it is
3346 specified unqualified.
3347
3348- Modify the DDNS update code so that it never prints the "resolver
3349 failed" message, but instead says *why* the resolver failed.
3350
3351- Officially support the subnet selection option, which now has an
3352 RFC.
3353
3354- Fix a build bug on MacOS X.
3355
3356- Allow administrator to disable ping checking.
3357
3358- Clean up dhcpd.conf documentation and add more information about how
3359 it works.
3360
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3361 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 10
3362
3363- Fix a bug introduced during debugging (!) and accidentally committed
3364 to CVS.
3365
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3366 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 9
3367
3368- Fix DHCP client handling of vendor encapsulated options.
3369
3370- Fix a bug in the handling of relay agent information options introduced
3371 in patchlevel 9.
3372
3373- Stash agent options on client leases by default, and use the stashed
3374 options at renewal time.
3375
3376- Add the ability to test the client's binding state in the client
3377 configuration language.
3378
3379- Fix a core dump in the DNS update code.
3380
3381- Fix some expression evaluation bugs that were causing updates to be
3382 done when no client hostname was received.
3383
3384- Fix expression evaluation debugging printfs.
3385
3386- Teach pretty_print_option to print options in option spaces other than
3387 the DHCP option space.
3388
3389- Add a warning message if the RHS of a not is not boolean.
3390
3391- Never select for more than a day, because some implementations of
3392 select will just fail if the timeout is too long (!).
3393
3394- Fix a case where a DHCPDISCOVER from an unknown network would be
3395 silently dropped.
3396
3397- Fix a bug where if a client requested an IP address for which a different
3398 client had the lease, the DHCP server would reallocate it anyway.
3399
3400- Fix the DNS update code so that if the client changes its name, the DNS
3401 will be correctly updated.
3402
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3403 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 8
3404
3405- Oops, there was another subtle math error in the header-length
3406 bounds-checking.
3407
3408 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 7
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3409
3410- Oops, forgot to byte-swap udp header length before bounds-checking it.
3411
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3414- Fix a possible DoS attack where a client could cause the checksummer
3415 to dump core. This was a read, not a write, so it shouldn't be
3416 possible to exploit it any further than that.
3417
3418- Implement client- and server-side support for using the Client FQDN
3419 option.
3420
3421- Support for other option spaces in the client has been added. This
3422 means that it is now possible to define a vendor option space on the
3423 client, request options in that space from the server (which must
3424 define the same option space), and then use those options in the
3425 client. This also allows NWIP and Client FQDN options to be used
3426 meaningfully.
3427
3428- Add object initializer support. This means that objects can now be
3429 initialized to something other than all-zeros when allocated, which
3430 makes, e.g., the interface object support code a little more robust.
3431
3432- Fix an off-by-one bug in the host stuffer. This was causing host
3433 deletes not the work, and may also have been causing OMAPI
3434 connections to get dropped. Thanks to James Brister for tracking
3435 this one down!
3436
3437- Fixed a core dump in the interface discovery code that is triggered
3438 when there is no subnet declaration for an interface, but the server
3439 decides to continue running. Thanks to Shane Kerr for tracking
3440 down and fixing this problem.
3441
3442 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 5
3443
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3444- Fix a bug in the recent enhancement to the interface discovery code
3445 to support arbitrary-length interface lists.
3446
3447- Support NUL-terminated DHCP options when initializing client-script
3448 environment.
3449
3450- Fix suffix operator.
3451
3452- Fix NetWare/IP option parsing.
3453
3454- Better error/status checking in dhcpctl initialization and omapi
3455 connection code.
3456
3457- Fix a potential memory smash in dhcpctl code.
3458
3459- Fix SunOS4 and (maybe) Ultrix builds.
3460
3461- Fix a bug where a certain sort of incoming packet could cause a core
3462 dump on Solaris (and probably elsewhere).
3463
3464- Add some more safety checks in error logging code.
3465
3466- Add support for ISC_R_INCOMPLETE in OMAPI protocol connection code.
3467
3468- Fix relay agent so that if an interface is specified on the command
3469 line, the relay agent does not dump core.
3470
3471- Fix class matching so that match if can be combined with match or
3472 spawn with.
3473
3474- Do not allow spurious leases in the lease database to introduce
3475 potentially bogus leases into the in-memory database.
3476
3477- Fix a byte-order problem in the client hardware address type code
3478 for OMAPI.
3479
3480- Be slightly less picky about what sort of hardware addresses OMAPI
3481 can install in host declarations.
3482
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3483 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 4
3484
3485- Incorporated Peter Marschall's proposed change to array/record
3486 parsing, which allows things like the slp-agent option to be encoded
3487 correctly. Thanks very much to Peter for taking the initiative to
3488 do this, and for doing such a careful job of it (e.g., updating the
3489 comments)!
3490
3491- Added an encoding for the slp-agent option. :')
3492
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3493- Fixed SunOS 4 build. Thanks to Robert Elz for responding to my
3494 request for help on this with patches!
3495
3496- Incorporated a change that should fix a problem reported by Philippe
3497 Jumelle where when the network connection between two servers is
3498 lost, they never reconnect.
3499
3500- Fix client script files other than that for NetBSD to actually use
3501 make_resolv_conf as documented in the manual page.
3502
3503- Fix a bug in the packet handling code that could result in a core
3504 dump.
3505
3506- Fix a bug in the bootp code where responses on the local net would
3507 be sent to the wrong MAC address. Thanks to Jerry Schave for
3508 catching this one.
3509
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3510 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 3
3511
3512- In the DHCP client, execute client statements prior to using the values
45d545f0 3513 of options, so that the client configuration can overridden, e.g., the
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3514 lease renewal time.
3515
3516- Fix a reference counting error that would result in very reproducible
3517 failures in updates, as well as occasional core dumps, if a zone was
3518 declared without a key.
3519
3520- Fix some Linux 2.0 compilation problems.
3521
3522- Fix a bug in scope evaluation during execution of "on" statements that
3523 caused values not to be recorded on leases.
3524
3525- If the dhcp-max-message-size option is specified in scope, and the
3526 client didn't send this option, use the one specified in scope to
3527 determine the maximum size of the response.
3528
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3529 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 2
3530
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3531- Fix a case where spawning subclasses were being allocated
3532 incorrectly, resulting in a core dump.
3533
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3534- Fix a case where the DHCP server might inappropriately NAK a
3535 RENEWING client.
3536
3537- Fix a place dhcprequest() where static leases could leak.
3538
3539- Include memory.h in omapip_p.h so that we don't get warnings about
3540 using memcmp().
3541
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3542 Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 1
3543
3544- Notice when SIOCFIGCONF returns more data than fit in the buffer -
3545 allocate a larger buffer, and retry. Thanks to Greg Fausak for
3546 pointing this out.
3547
3548- In the server, if no interfaces were configured, report an error and
3549 exit.
3550
3551- Don't ever record a state of 'startup'.
3552
3553- Don't try to evaluate the local failover binding address if none was
3554 specified. Thanks to Joseph Breu for finding this.