This directory contains contributed scripts, tools, libraries, and other
useful accessories to BIND 9. Contrib software is not supported by ISC,
but reported bugs will be fixed as time permits.
- scripts/
Assorted useful scripts, including 'nanny' which monitors
named and restarts it in the event of a crash, 'zone-edit'
which enables editing of a dynamic zone, and others
- queryperf/
A DNS query performance testing tool
- perftcpdns/
A performance testing tool for DNS over TCP
- dane/
mkdane.sh generates TLSA records for use with DNS-based
Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
- dnspriv/
Sample configuration for setting up a DNS-over-TLS server
using BIND with Nginx as a TLS proxy
Dynamically linkable DLZ modules that can be configured into
named at runtime, enabling access to external data sources including
LDAP, MySQL, Berkeley DB, perl scripts, etc
Old-style DLZ drivers that can be linked into named at compile
time. (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected
to be deprecated eventually.)
- sdb/
SDB drivers: another mechanism for accessing external data
sources. (These are no longer actively maintained and are
expected to be deprecated eventually.)
- idn/
Contains source for 'idnkit', which provides support for
Internationalized Domain Name processing.
- dnsperf-2.1.0.0-1/
- dnsperf-patches/
DNS server performance testing tools, like 'queryperf' but more
advanced: 'dnsperf' focuses on authoritative server performance
and 'resperf' on recursive server performance. The patch that
adds support for EDNS Client Subnet can be found in dnsperf-patches
directory.
Formerly, there was more software included in this directory, but we
have removed it in favour of using canonical upstream locations. You
can find the links to the nslint, query-loc and zkt, and other software
we find useful but do not necessarily support, at: