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INTRODUCTION Infoblox NIOS 7.2.x software, coupled with Infoblox appliance platforms, enables customers to deploy large, robust, manageable and cost-effective Infoblox Grids. This next-generation solution enables distributed delivery of core network services—including DNS, DHCP, IPAM, TFTP, and FTP—with the nonstop availability and real-time service management required for today’s 24x7 advanced IP networks and applications.
Please note the following: • NIOS 7.2.x is not supported on the following appliances: IB-250, IB-250-A, IB-500, IB-550, IB-550-A, IB-1000, IB-1050, IB-1050-A, IB-1550, IB-1550-A, IB-1552, IB-1552-A, IB-1852-A, IB-2000, IB-2000-A, IB-VM-250, IB-VM-550, IB-VM-1050, IB-VM-1550, IB-VM-1850, IB-VM-2000, and Trinzic Reporting TR-2000 and TR-2000-A series appliances. You cannot upgrade to NIOS 7.2.x on these appliances. See Upgrade Guidelines on page 19 for additional upgrade information.
RESOLVED ISSUES
The following issues were reported in previous NIOS releases and resolved in this release. The resolved issues are listed by severity. For descriptions of the severity levels, refer to Severity Levels on page 33.
Fixed in 7.2.4
ID
Severity
Summary
NIOS-56643
Critical
Grid members communicating with the Grid Master through the MGMT port that was hardcoded with port speed and duplex settings might fail to join the Grid after upgrading to the latest NIOS 7.2.x from earlier releases.
NIOS-56423
Critical
Addressed the following vulnerability:
CVE-2015-8000: If responses from upstream servers contained an invalid class parameter for certain record types, DNS service might terminate with an assertion failure.
NIOS-55882
Critical
When logging in from the serial console, the primary TACACS authentication failed while using an RSA token.
NIOS-55872
Critical
Observed a reduction in GUI performance for superusers.
NIOS-55757
Critical
This release addresses the change of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for the DNS root zone H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
ID
Severity
Summary
NIOS-56218
Major
Some IB-4030 appliances in the Grid experienced intermittent latency peaks in DNS query responses.
For more details about fixes in this release please read the attached release notes
