This directory contains contributed scripts, tools, libraries,

and other useful additions to BIND 9. It includes:

- 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)

- dlz/modules

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

- dlz/drivers

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 (These are no longer actively maintained and are expected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

- idn/

Contains source for 'idnkit', which provides support for

Internationalized Domain Name processing.

- nslint-3.0a2

A lint-like tool for checking DNS files

- query-loc-0.4.0

A tool for retrieving location information stored in the DNS

- zkt-1.1.2

DNSSEC Zone Key Tools, an alternate method for managing keys

and signatures