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36983956d7c3d9e294903eeda29548f67ac17daeBob HalleyBIND 9
40d01ce8f3a1889f5799d9b22b26d5398fa75a1bBob Halley
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt underlying BIND architecture. Some of the important features of
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt BIND 9 are:
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - DNS Security
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt DNSSEC (signed zones)
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt TSIG (signed DNS requests)
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - IP version 6
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Answers DNS queries on IPv6 sockets
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt IPv6 resource records (AAAA)
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Experimental IPv6 Resolver Library
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - DNS Protocol Enhancements
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Improved standards conformance
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Views
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt One server process can provide multiple "views" of
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt the DNS namespace, e.g. an "inside" view to certain
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt clients, and an "outside" view to others.
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Multiprocessor Support
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Improved Portability Architecture
16803617e47c83272013e45ba8eb83a3b11983edAndreas Gustafsson
b90dd6c0a9df584619d3c47be7c9417f55d5ccf6Bob Halley
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt BIND version 9 development has been underwritten by the following
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt organizations:
b90dd6c0a9df584619d3c47be7c9417f55d5ccf6Bob Halley
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Sun Microsystems, Inc.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Hewlett Packard
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Compaq Computer Corporation
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt IBM
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Process Software Corporation
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Silicon Graphics, Inc.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Network Associates, Inc.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt USENIX Association
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Stichting NLnet - NLnet Foundation
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt Nominum, Inc.
40d01ce8f3a1889f5799d9b22b26d5398fa75a1bBob Halley
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt For a summary of functional enhancements in previous
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt releases, see the HISTORY file.
b497531c76ea5f9aeed0c1707b6156c104c633ddEvan Hunt
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt For a detailed list of user-visible changes from
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt previous releases, see the CHANGES file.
b497531c76ea5f9aeed0c1707b6156c104c633ddEvan Hunt
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt For up-to-date release notes and errata, see
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt http://www.isc.org/software/bind9/releasenotes
62714accee7c8d96e02f40d58751422972e2ed41Evan Hunt
06a05efc07ac7b6ff1973a6463291f5d48ece6ebMark AndrewsBIND 9.11.0
06a05efc07ac7b6ff1973a6463291f5d48ece6ebMark Andrews
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt BIND 9.11.0 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.10 and earlier
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt releases. New features include:
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt
9d1f3953d3226a9e85d26bc59e62b29c16d14e77Evan Hunt - A new "masterfile-style" zone option controls the formatting
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt of text zone files: When set to "full", a zone file is dumped
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt in single-line-per-record format.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt - "dig" now supports sending arbitary EDNS options by specifying
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt them on the command line.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt - "dig +ttlunits" causes dig to print TTL values with time-unit
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt suffixes: w, d, h, m, s for weeks, days, hours, minutes, and
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt seconds.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt - "serial-update-format" can now be set to "date". On update,
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt the serial number will be set to the current date in YYYYMMDDNN
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt format.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt - "dnssec-signzone -N date" sets the serial number to YYYYMMDDNN.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt - "named -L <filename>" causes named to send log messages to
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt the specified file by default instead of to the system log.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt This release addresses the security flaw described in
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt CVE-2014-3214.
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan HuntBIND 9.10.0
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt BIND 9.10.0 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.9 and earlier
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt releases. New features include:
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt - DNS Response-rate limiting (DNS RRL), which blunts the
45e74d65bd981a97c5da2f86e8557c9843a0c7c0Evan Hunt impact of reflection and amplification attacks, is always
45e74d65bd981a97c5da2f86e8557c9843a0c7c0Evan Hunt compiled in and no longer requires a compile-time option
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt to enable it.
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt - An experimental "Source Identity Token" (SIT) EDNS option
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt is now available. Similar to DNS Cookies as invented by
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt Donald Eastlake 3rd, these are designed to enable clients
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt to detect off-path spoofed responses, and to enable servers
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt to detect spoofed-source queries. Servers can be configured
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt to send smaller responses to clients that have not identified
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt themselves using a SIT option, reducing the effectiveness of
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt amplification attacks. RRL processing has also been updated;
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt clients proven to be legitimate via SIT are not subject to
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt rate limiting. Use "configure --enable-sit" to enable this
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt feature in BIND.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - A new zone file format, "map", stores zone data in a
9d1f3953d3226a9e85d26bc59e62b29c16d14e77Evan Hunt format that can be mapped directly into memory, allowing
9d1f3953d3226a9e85d26bc59e62b29c16d14e77Evan Hunt significantly faster zone loading.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - "delv" (domain entity lookup and validation) is a new tool
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt with dig-like semantics for looking up DNS data and performing
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt internal DNSSEC validation. This allows easy validation in
45e74d65bd981a97c5da2f86e8557c9843a0c7c0Evan Hunt environments where the resolver may not be trustworthy, and
45e74d65bd981a97c5da2f86e8557c9843a0c7c0Evan Hunt assists with troubleshooting of DNSSEC problems. (NOTE:
daa098822e9798fa22fa704cfb1dddf96c8f253bJeremy C. Reed In previous development releases of BIND 9.10, this utility
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt was called "delve". The spelling has been changed to avoid
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt confusion with the "delve" utility included with the Xapian
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt search engine.)
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Improved EDNS(0) processing for better resolver performance
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt and reliability over slow or lossy connections.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - A new "configure --with-tuning=large" option tunes certain
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt compiled-in constants and default settings to values better
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt suited to large servers with abundant memory. This can
fdca88d789f2eed80950edce1ec444c7e9e45771Evan Hunt improve performance on such servers, but will consume more
1736709296d81b06230f073543e95d70bd7cfe7cEvan Hunt memory and may degrade performance on smaller systems.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Substantial improvement in response-policy zone (RPZ)
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt performance. Up to 32 response-policy zones can be
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt configured with minimal performance loss.
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt - To improve recursive resolver performance, cache records
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt which are still being requested by clients can now be
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt automatically refreshed from the authoritative server
db955e6f01e7a40c7c69b21495e316a9f29102a8Evan Hunt before they expire, reducing or eliminating the time
e94261f0bcfb42a33128f27809d7c36f32f703f5Evan Hunt window in which no answer is available in the cache.
e94261f0bcfb42a33128f27809d7c36f32f703f5Evan Hunt - New "rpz-client-ip" triggers and drop policies allowing
e94261f0bcfb42a33128f27809d7c36f32f703f5Evan Hunt response policies based on the IP address of the client.
e94261f0bcfb42a33128f27809d7c36f32f703f5Evan Hunt - ACLs can now be specified based on geographic location
e94261f0bcfb42a33128f27809d7c36f32f703f5Evan Hunt using the MaxMind GeoIP databases. Use "configure
e94261f0bcfb42a33128f27809d7c36f32f703f5Evan Hunt --with-geoip" to enable.
35f6a21f5f8114542c050bfcb484b39ce513d4bdEvan Hunt - Zone data can now be shared between views, allowing
35f6a21f5f8114542c050bfcb484b39ce513d4bdEvan Hunt multiple views to serve the same zones authoritatively
35f6a21f5f8114542c050bfcb484b39ce513d4bdEvan Hunt without storing multiple copies in memory.
35f6a21f5f8114542c050bfcb484b39ce513d4bdEvan Hunt - New XML schema (version 3) for the statistics channel
fc73ba3528e8ceaa30ab4c2f74c991d08f4e2cedEvan Hunt includes many new statistics and uses a flattened XML tree
fc73ba3528e8ceaa30ab4c2f74c991d08f4e2cedEvan Hunt for faster parsing. The older schema is now deprecated.
fc73ba3528e8ceaa30ab4c2f74c991d08f4e2cedEvan Hunt - A new stylesheet, based on the Google Charts API, displays
7adf0928b92d742b727c9d032044c22f4fc8ebe7Evan Hunt XML statistics in charts and graphs on javascript-enabled
7adf0928b92d742b727c9d032044c22f4fc8ebe7Evan Hunt browsers.
7adf0928b92d742b727c9d032044c22f4fc8ebe7Evan Hunt - The statistics channel can now provide data in JSON
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt format as well as XML.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - New stats counters track TCP and UDP queries recieved
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt per zone, and EDNS options received in total.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - The internal and export versions of the BIND libraries
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt (libisc, libdns, etc) have been unified so that external
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt library clients can use the same libraries as BIND itself.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - A new compile-time option, "configure --enable-native-pkcs11",
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt allows BIND 9 cryptography functions to use the PKCS#11 API
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt natively, so that BIND can drive a cryptographic hardware
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt service module (HSM) directly instead of using a modified
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt OpenSSL as an intermediary. (Note: This feature requires an
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt HSM to have a full implementation of the PKCS#11 API; many
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt current HSMs only have partial implementations. The new
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt "pkcs11-tokens" command can be used to check API completeness.
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt Native PKCS#11 is known to work with the Thales nShield HSM
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt and with SoftHSM version 2 from the Open DNSSEC project.)
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt - The new "max-zone-ttl" option enforces maximum TTLs for
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt zones. This can simplify the process of rolling DNSSEC keys
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt by guaranteeing that cached signatures will have expired
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt within the specified amount of time.
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt - "dig +subnet" sends an EDNS CLIENT-SUBNET option when
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt querying.
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt - "dig +expire" sends an EDNS EXPIRE option when querying.
f6f88198067c260f92bae36bd564bd68e929d6b3Evan Hunt When this option is sent with an SOA query to a server
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt that supports it, it will report the expiry time of
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt a slave zone.
83d59691e3d25938474ea1e0b8a0385e1a77da40Evan Hunt - New "dnssec-coverage" tool to check DNSSEC key coverage
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt for a zone and report if a lapse in signing coverage has
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt been inadvertently scheduled.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Signing algorithm flexibility and other improvements
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt for the "rndc" control channel.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - "named-checkzone" and "named-compilezone" can now read
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt journal files, allowing them to process dynamic zones.
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt - Multiple DLZ databases can now be configured. Individual
b751788932cf1a6d98ae83355f38a080125c2f3eEvan Hunt zones can be configured to be served from a specific DLZ
c9221313204f9720b3ae54c3ef1d89743180223aEvan Hunt database. DLZ databases now serve zones of type "master"
c9221313204f9720b3ae54c3ef1d89743180223aEvan Hunt and "redirect".
c9221313204f9720b3ae54c3ef1d89743180223aEvan Hunt - "rndc zonestatus" reports information about a specified zone.
c9221313204f9720b3ae54c3ef1d89743180223aEvan Hunt - "named" now listens on IPv6 as well as IPv4 interfaces
c9221313204f9720b3ae54c3ef1d89743180223aEvan Hunt by default.
06a05efc07ac7b6ff1973a6463291f5d48ece6ebMark Andrews - "named" now preserves the capitalization of names
e4c4cf5177d23e144897e0e26ae210cfdb9612ebEvan Hunt when responding to queries: for instance, a query for
e4c4cf5177d23e144897e0e26ae210cfdb9612ebEvan Hunt "example.com" may be answered with "example.COM" if the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt name was configured that way in the zone file. Some
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt clients have a bug causing them to depend on the older
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt behavior, in which the case of the answer always matched
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt the case of the query, rather than the case of the name
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt configured in the DNS. Such clients can now be specified
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt in the new "no-case-compress" ACL; this will restore the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt older behavior of "named" for those clients only.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - new "dnssec-importkey" command allows the use of offline
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt DNSSEC keys with automatic DNSKEY management.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - New "named-rrchecker" tool to verify the syntactic
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt correctness of individual resource records.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - When re-signing a zone, the new "dnssec-signzone -Q" option
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt drops signatures from keys that are still published but are
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt no longer active.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - "named-checkconf -px" will print the contents of configuration
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt files with the shared secrets obscured, making it easier to
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt share configuration (e.g. when submitting a bug report)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt without revealing private information.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - "rndc scan" causes named to re-scan network interfaces for
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt changes in local addresses.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - On operating systems with support for routing sockets,
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt network interfaces are re-scanned automatically whenever
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt they change.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - "tsig-keygen" is now available as an alternate command
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt name to use for "ddns-confgen".
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan HuntBuilding
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt BIND 9 currently requires a UNIX system with an ANSI C compiler,
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt basic POSIX support, and a 64 bit integer type.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt We've had successful builds and tests on the following systems:
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX 5.1B
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Fedora Core 6
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt FreeBSD 4.10, 5.2.1, 6.2
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt HP-UX 11.11
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Mac OS X 10.5
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt NetBSD 3.x, 4.0-beta, 5.0-beta
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt OpenBSD 3.3 and up
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Solaris 8, 9, 9 (x86), 10
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10
e4c4cf5177d23e144897e0e26ae210cfdb9612ebEvan Hunt Windows XP/2003/2008
40d01ce8f3a1889f5799d9b22b26d5398fa75a1bBob Halley
40d01ce8f3a1889f5799d9b22b26d5398fa75a1bBob Halley NOTE: As of BIND 9.5.1, 9.4.3, and 9.3.6, older versions of
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Windows, including Windows NT and Windows 2000, are no longer
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt supported.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt We have recent reports from the user community that a supported
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt version of BIND will build and run on the following systems:
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt AIX 4.3, 5L
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt CentOS 4, 4.5, 5
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Darwin 9.0.0d1/ARM
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Debian 4, 5, 6
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Fedora Core 5, 7, 8
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt FreeBSD 6, 7, 8
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt HP-UX 11.23 PA
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt MacOS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt SCO OpenServer 5.0.6
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Slackware 9, 10
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt SuSE 9, 10
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To build, just
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt ./configure
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt make
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Do not use a parallel "make".
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Several environment variables that can be set before running
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt configure will affect compilation:
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt CC
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt The C compiler to use. configure tries to figure
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt out the right one for supported systems.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt CFLAGS
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt C compiler flags. Defaults to include -g and/or -O2
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt as supported by the compiler. Please include '-g'
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt if you need to set CFLAGS.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt STD_CINCLUDES
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt System header file directories. Can be used to specify
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt where add-on thread or IPv6 support is, for example.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Defaults to empty string.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt STD_CDEFINES
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Any additional preprocessor symbols you want defined.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Defaults to empty string.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Possible settings:
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Change the default syslog facility of named/lwresd.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DISC_FACILITY=LOG_LOCAL0
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Enable DNSSEC signature chasing support in dig.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DDIG_SIGCHASE=1 (sets -DDIG_SIGCHASE_TD=1 and
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DDIG_SIGCHASE_BU=1)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Disable dropping queries from particular well known ports.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DNS_CLIENT_DROPPORT=0
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Sibling glue checking in named-checkzone is enabled by default.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To disable the default check set. -DCHECK_SIBLING=0
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt named-checkzone checks out-of-zone addresses by default.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To disable this default set. -DCHECK_LOCAL=0
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To create the default pid files in ${localstatedir}/run rather
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt than ${localstatedir}/run/{named,lwresd}/ set.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DNS_RUN_PID_DIR=0
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Enable workaround for Solaris kernel bug about /dev/poll
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH=1
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt The watch timeout is also configurable, e.g.,
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DISC_SOCKET_POLLWATCH_TIMEOUT=20
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt LDFLAGS
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Linker flags. Defaults to empty string.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt The following need to be set when cross compiling.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt BUILD_CC
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt The native C compiler.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt BUILD_CFLAGS (optional)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt BUILD_CPPFLAGS (optional)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Possible Settings:
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt -DNEED_OPTARG=1 (optarg is not declared in <unistd.h>)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt BUILD_LDFLAGS (optional)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt BUILD_LIBS (optional)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt On most platforms, BIND 9 is built with multithreading
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt support, allowing it to take advantage of multiple CPUs.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt You can configure this by specifying "--enable-threads" or
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt "--disable-threads" on the configure command line. The default
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt is to enable threads, except on some older operating systems
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt on which threads are known to have had problems in the past.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt (Note: Prior to BIND 9.10, the default was to disable threads on
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Linux systems; this has been reversed. On Linux systems, the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt threaded build is known to change BIND's behavior with respect
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt to file permissions; it may be necessary to specify a user with
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt the -u option when running named.)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To build shared libraries, specify "--with-libtool" on the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt configure command line.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Certain compiled-in constants and default settings can be
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt increased to values better suited to large servers with abundant
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt memory resources (e.g, 64-bit servers with 12G or more of memory)
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt by specifying "--with-tuning=large" on the configure command
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt line. This can improve performance on big servers, but will
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt consume more memory and may degrade performance on smaller
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt systems.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt For the server to support DNSSEC, you need to build it
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt with crypto support. You must have OpenSSL 0.9.5a
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt or newer installed and specify "--with-openssl" on the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt configure command line. If OpenSSL is installed under
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt a nonstandard prefix, you can tell configure where to
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt look for it using "--with-openssl=/prefix".
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To support the HTTP statistics channel, the server must
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt be linked with at least one of the following: libxml2
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt (http://xmlsoft.org) or json-c (https://github.com/json-c).
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt If these are installed at a nonstandard prefix, use
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt "--with-libxml2=/prefix" or "--with-libjson=/prefix".
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt On some platforms it is necessary to explicitly request large
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt file support to handle files bigger than 2GB. This can be
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt done by "--enable-largefile" on the configure command line.
6a3fa181d1253db5191139e20231512eebaddeebEvan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Support for the "fixed" rrset-order option can be enabled
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt or disabled by specifying "--enable-fixed-rrset" or
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt "--disable-fixed-rrset" on the configure command line.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt The default is "disabled", to reduce memory footprint.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt If your operating system has integrated support for IPv6, it
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt will be used automatically. If you have installed KAME IPv6
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt separately, use "--with-kame[=PATH]" to specify its location.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt "make install" will install "named" and the various BIND 9 libraries.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt By default, installation is into /usr/local, but this can be changed
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt with the "--prefix" option when running "configure".
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
daa098822e9798fa22fa704cfb1dddf96c8f253bJeremy C. Reed You may specify the option "--sysconfdir" to set the directory
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt where configuration files like "named.conf" go by default,
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt and "--localstatedir" to set the default parent directory
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt of "run/named.pid". For backwards compatibility with BIND 8,
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt --sysconfdir defaults to "/etc" and --localstatedir defaults to
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt "/var" if no --prefix option is given. If there is a --prefix
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt option, sysconfdir defaults to "$prefix/etc" and localstatedir
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt defaults to "$prefix/var".
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt To see additional configure options, run "configure --help".
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Note that the help message does not reflect the BIND 8
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt compatibility defaults for sysconfdir and localstatedir.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt If you're planning on making changes to the BIND 9 source, you
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt should also "make depend". If you're using Emacs, you might find
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt "make tags" helpful.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt If you need to re-run configure please run "make distclean" first.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt This will ensure that all the option changes take.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Building with gcc is not supported, unless gcc is the vendor's usual
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt compiler (e.g. the various BSD systems, Linux).
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Known compiler issues:
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt * gcc-3.2.1 and gcc-3.1.1 is known to cause problems with solaris-x86.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt * gcc prior to gcc-3.2.3 ultrasparc generates incorrect code at -02.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt * gcc-3.3.5 powerpc generates incorrect code at -02.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt * Irix, MipsPRO 7.4.1m is known to cause problems.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt A limited test suite can be run with "make test". Many of
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt the tests require you to configure a set of virtual IP addresses
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt on your system, and some require Perl; see bin/tests/system/README
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt for details.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt SunOS 4 requires "printf" to be installed to make the shared
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt libraries. sh-utils-1.16 provides a "printf" which compiles
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt on SunOS 4.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan HuntKnown limitations
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Linux requires kernel build 2.6.39 or later to get the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt performance benefits from using multiple sockets.
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3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan HuntDocumentation
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt The BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual is included with the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt source distribution in DocBook XML and HTML format, in the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt doc/arm directory.
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3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Some of the programs in the BIND 9 distribution have man pages
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt in their directories. In particular, the command line
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt options of "named" are documented in /bin/named/named.8.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt There is now also a set of man pages for the lwres library.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
276a77c22af98c78403883b16a82646a0d5b29abPaul Vixie If you are upgrading from BIND 8, please read the migration
c5e2e93f62e83ff6e3d85ea05ab5a9f468300a32Mark Andrews notes in doc/misc/migration. If you are upgrading from
c5e2e93f62e83ff6e3d85ea05ab5a9f468300a32Mark Andrews BIND 4, read doc/misc/migration-4to9.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Frequently asked questions and their answers can be found in
151bab91952de38e6b7cadf29d391a2790df5fddEvan Hunt FAQ.
413d5565ba2af24f12dc54d6e6807af7f1a39867Andreas Gustafsson
413d5565ba2af24f12dc54d6e6807af7f1a39867Andreas Gustafsson Additional information on various subjects can be found
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt in the other README files.
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413d5565ba2af24f12dc54d6e6807af7f1a39867Andreas GustafssonChange Log
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt A detailed list of all changes to BIND 9 is included in the
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt file CHANGES, with the most recent changes listed first.
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt Change notes include tags indicating the category of the
413d5565ba2af24f12dc54d6e6807af7f1a39867Andreas Gustafsson change that was made; these categories are:
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3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [func] New feature
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
36983956d7c3d9e294903eeda29548f67ac17daeBob Halley [bug] General bug fix
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [security] Fix for a significant security flaw
68dacf121428ad8d1160d19d018e028f676ae47aMark Andrews
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [experimental] Used for new features when the syntax
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt or other aspects of the design are still
306b36adb61f375b697419a9775e33398eb21563Evan Hunt in flux and may change
413d5565ba2af24f12dc54d6e6807af7f1a39867Andreas Gustafsson
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt [port] Portability enhancement
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [maint] Updates to built-in data such as root
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt server addresses and keys
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [tuning] Changes to built-in configuration defaults
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt and constants to improve performance
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt [protocol] Updates to the DNS protocol such as new
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3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [test] Changes to the automatic tests, not
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt affecting server functionality
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3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt [cleanup] Minor corrections and refactoring
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
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b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt [contrib] Changes to the contributed tools and
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt libraries in the 'contrib' subdirectory
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b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt [placeholder] Used in the master development branch to
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt reserve change numbers for use in other
daa098822e9798fa22fa704cfb1dddf96c8f253bJeremy C. Reed branches, e.g. when fixing a bug that only
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt exists in older releases
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt In general, [func] and [experimental] tags will only appear
b375b22fb0342f549d6d3a428644292e7c812e3aEvan Hunt in new-feature releases (i.e., those with version numbers
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt ending in zero). Some new functionality may be backported to
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36983956d7c3d9e294903eeda29548f67ac17daeBob Halley
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan HuntAcknowledgments
36983956d7c3d9e294903eeda29548f67ac17daeBob Halley
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
36983956d7c3d9e294903eeda29548f67ac17daeBob Halley for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric
469a5f80aebc46e720b073e3a2cceb70709797b6Mark Andrews Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
3b1b34f762cf4a9a4e09d3ef03becc0d08acddb9Evan Hunt - This product includes software written by Tim Hudson
469a5f80aebc46e720b073e3a2cceb70709797b6Mark Andrews (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
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