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4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<a name="id2542126"></a>Release Notes for BIND Version 9.11.0pre-alpha</h2></div></div></div>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="sect2" lang="en">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<a name="relnotes_intro"></a>Introduction</h3></div></div></div>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync This document summarizes changes since the last production release
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync of BIND on the corresponding major release branch.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
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4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="sect2" lang="en">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<a name="relnotes_download"></a>Download</h3></div></div></div>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found at
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <a href="http://www.isc.org/downloads/" target="_top">http://www.isc.org/downloads/</a>.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync There you will find additional information about each release,
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync operating systems.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync</div>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="sect2" lang="en">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<a name="relnotes_security"></a>Security Fixes</h3></div></div></div>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync A flaw in delegation handling could be exploited to put
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> into an infinite loop, in which
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync each lookup of a name server triggered additional lookups
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync of more name servers. This has been addressed by placing
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync limits on the number of levels of recursion
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> will allow (default 7), and
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync on the number of queries that it will send before
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync terminating a recursive query (default 50).
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The recursion depth limit is configured via the
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <code class="option">max-recursion-depth</code> option, and the query limit
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync via the <code class="option">max-recursion-queries</code> option.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The flaw was discovered by Florian Maury of ANSSI, and is
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync disclosed in CVE-2014-8500. [RT #37580]
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync</li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync Two separate problems were identified in BIND's GeoIP code that
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync could lead to an assertion failure. One was triggered by use of
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync both IPv4 and IPv6 address families, the other by referencing
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync a GeoIP database in <code class="filename">named.conf</code> which was
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync not installed. Both are covered by CVE-2014-8680. [RT #37672]
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync [RT #37679]
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync A less serious security flaw was also found in GeoIP: changes
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync to the <span><strong class="command">geoip-directory</strong></span> option in
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <code class="filename">named.conf</code> were ignored when running
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <span><strong class="command">rndc reconfig</strong></span>. In theory, this could allow
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> to allow access to unintended clients.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync</li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync</ul></div>
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4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="sect2" lang="en">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<a name="relnotes_features"></a>New Features</h3></div></div></div>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc">
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li><p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The serial number of a dynamically updatable zone can
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync now be set using
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <span><strong class="command">rndc signing -serial <em class="replaceable"><code>number</code></em> <em class="replaceable"><code>zonename</code></em></strong></span>.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync This is particularly useful with <code class="option">inline-signing</code>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync zones that have been reset. Setting the serial number to a value
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync larger than that on the slaves will trigger an AXFR-style
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync transfer.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p></li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li><p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync When answering recursive queries, SERVFAIL responses can now be
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync cached by the server for a limited time; subsequent queries for
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync the same query name and type will return another SERVFAIL until
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync the cache times out. This reduces the frequency of retries
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync when a query is persistently failing, which can be a burden
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync on recursive serviers. The SERVFAIL cache timeout is controlled
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync by <code class="option">servfail-ttl</code>, which defaults to 10 seconds
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync and has an upper limit of 30.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p></li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li><p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The new <span><strong class="command">rndc nta</strong></span> command can now be used to
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync set a "negative trust anchor" (NTA), disabling DNSSEC validation for
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync a specific domain; this can be used when responses from a domain
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync are known to be failing validation due to administrative error
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync rather than because of a spoofing attack. NTAs are strictly
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync temporary; by default they expire after one hour, but can be
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync configured to last up to one week. The default NTA lifetime
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync can be changed by setting the <code class="option">nta-lifetime</code> in
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync <code class="filename">named.conf</code>. When added, NTAs are stored in a
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync file (<code class="filename"><em class="replaceable"><code>viewname</code></em>.nta</code>)
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync in order to persist across restarts of the named server.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p></li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li><p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option is now supported for
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync authoritative servers; if a query contains an ECS option then
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync ACLs containing <code class="option">geoip</code> or <code class="option">ecs</code>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync elements can match against the the address encoded in the option.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync This can be used to select a view for a query, so that different
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync answers can be provided depending on the client network.
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync </p></li>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync<li><p>
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync The EDNS EXPIRE option has been implemented on the client
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync side, allowing a slave server to set the expiration timer
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync correctly when transferring zone data from another slave
4fd606d1f5abe38e1f42c38de1d2e895166bd0f4vboxsync server.
</p></li>
<li><p>
A new <code class="option">masterfile-style</code> zone option controls
the formatting of text zone files: When set to
<code class="literal">full</code>, the zone file will dumped in
single-line-per-record format.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +ednsopt</strong></span> can now be used to set
arbitrary EDNS options in DNS requests.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +ednsflags</strong></span> can now be used to set
yet-to-be-defined EDNS flags in DNS requests.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +[no]ednsnegotiation</strong></span> can now be used enable /
disable EDNS version negotiation.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +header-only</strong></span> can now be used to send
queries without a question section.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +ttlunits</strong></span> causes <span><strong class="command">dig</strong></span>
to print TTL values with time-unit suffixes: w, d, h, m, s for
weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +zflag</strong></span> can be used to set the last
unassigned DNS header flag bit. This bit in normally zero.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig +dscp=<em class="replaceable"><code>value</code></em></strong></span>
can now be used to set the DSCP code point in outgoing query
packets.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<code class="option">serial-update-method</code> can now be set to
<code class="literal">date</code>. On update, the serial number will
be set to the current date in YYYYMMDDNN format.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dnssec-signzone -N date</strong></span> also sets the serial
number to YYYYMMDDNN.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">named -L <em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em></strong></span>
causes named to send log messages to the specified file by
default instead of to the system log.
</p></li>
<li><p>
The rate limiter configured by the
<code class="option">serial-query-rate</code> option no longer covers
NOTIFY messages; those are now separately controlled by
<code class="option">notify-rate</code> and
<code class="option">startup-notify-rate</code> (the latter of which
controls the rate of NOTIFY messages sent when the server
is first started up or reconfigured).
</p></li>
<li><p>
The default number of tasks and client objects available
for serving lightweight resolver queries have been increased,
and are now configurable via the new <code class="option">lwres-tasks</code>
and <code class="option">lwres-clients</code> options in
<code class="filename">named.conf</code>. [RT #35857]
</p></li>
<li><p>
Log output to files can now be buffered by specifying
<span><strong class="command">buffered yes;</strong></span> when creating a channel.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">delv +tcp</strong></span> will exclusively use TCP when
sending queries.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> will now check to see whether
other name server processes are running before starting up.
This is implemented in two ways: 1) by refusing to start
if the configured network interfaces all return "address
in use", and 2) by acquiring a file lock on
<code class="filename">/var/run/named/named.lock</code>, or on a different
file specified via the <span><strong class="command">named -X</strong></span> command
line option.
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">rndc delzone</strong></span> can now be applied to zones
which were configured in <code class="filename">named.conf</code>;
it is no longer restricted to zones which were added by
<span><strong class="command">rndc addzone</strong></span>. (Note, however, that
this does not edit <code class="filename">named.conf</code>; the zone
must be removed from the configuration or it will return
when <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> is restarted or reloaded.)
</p></li>
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">rndc showzone</strong></span> displays the current
configuration for a specified zone.
</p></li>
</ul></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="relnotes_changes"></a>Feature Changes</h3></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc">
<li><p>
ACLs containing <span><strong class="command">geoip asnum</strong></span> elements were
not correctly matched unless the full organization name was
specified in the ACL (as in
<span><strong class="command">geoip asnum "AS1234 Example, Inc.";</strong></span>).
They can now match against the AS number alone (as in
<span><strong class="command">geoip asnum "AS1234";</strong></span>).
</p></li>
<li><p>
When using native PKCS#11 cryptography (i.e.,
<span><strong class="command">configure --enable-native-pkcs11</strong></span>) HSM PINs
of up to 256 characters can now be used.
</p></li>
<li><p>
NXDOMAIN responses to queries of type DS are now cached separately
from those for other types. This helps when using "grafted" zones
of type forward, for which the parent zone does not contain a
delegation, such as local top-level domains. Previously a query
of type DS for such a zone could cause the zone apex to be cached
as NXDOMAIN, blocking all subsequent queries. (Note: This
change is only helpful when DNSSEC validation is not enabled.
"Grafted" zones without a delegation in the parent are not a
recommended configuration.)
</p></li>
<li><p>
Update forwarding performance has been improved by allowing
a single TCP connection to be shared between multiple updates.
</p></li>
<li><p>
By default, <span><strong class="command">nsupdate</strong></span> will now check
the correctness of hostnames when adding records of type
A, AAAA, MX, SOA, NS, SRV or PTR. This behavior can be
disabled with <span><strong class="command">check-names no</strong></span>.
</p></li>
<li><p>
Added support for OPENPGPKEY type.
</p></li>
<li><p>
The names of the files used to store managed keys and added
zones for each view are no longer based on the SHA256 hash
of the view name, except when this is necessary because the
view name contains characters that would be incompatible with use
as a file name. For views whose names do not contain forward
slashes ('/'), backslashes ('\'), or capital letters - which
could potentially cause namespace collision problems on
case-insensitive filesystems - files will now be named
after the view (for example, <code class="filename">internal.mkeys</code>
or <code class="filename">external.nzf</code>). However, to ensure
consistent behavior when upgrading, if a file using the old
name format is found to exist, it will continue to be used.
</p></li>
<li><p>
"rndc" can now return text output of arbitrary size to
the caller. (Prior to this, certain commands such as
"rndc tsig-list" and "rndc zonestatus" could return
truncated output.)
</p></li>
<li><p>
Errors reported when running <span><strong class="command">rndc addzone</strong></span>
(e.g., when a zone file cannot be loaded) have been clarified
to make it easier to diagnose problems.
</p></li>
<li><p>
When encountering an authoritative name server whose name is
an alias pointing to another name, the resolver treats
this as an error and skips to the next server. Previously
this happened silently; now the error will be logged to
the newly-created "cname" log category.
</p></li>
<li><p>
If named is not configured to validate the answer then
allow fallback to plain DNS on timeout even when we know
the server supports EDNS. This will allow the server to
potentially resolve signed queries when TCP is being
blocked.
</p></li>
</ul></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="relnotes_bugs"></a>Bug Fixes</h3></div></div></div>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc">
<li><p>
<span><strong class="command">dig</strong></span>, <span><strong class="command">host</strong></span> and
<span><strong class="command">nslookup</strong></span> aborted when encountering
a name which, after appending search list elements,
exceeded 255 bytes. Such names are now skipped, but
processing of other names will continue. [RT #36892]
</p></li>
<li><p>
The error message generated when
<span><strong class="command">named-checkzone</strong></span> or
<span><strong class="command">named-checkconf -z</strong></span> encounters a
<code class="option">$TTL</code> directive without a value has
been clarified. [RT #37138]
</p></li>
<li><p>
Semicolon characters (;) included in TXT records were
incorrectly escaped with a backslash when the record was
displayed as text. This is actually only necessary when there
are no quotation marks. [RT #37159]
</p></li>
<li><p>
When files opened for writing by <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span>,
such as zone journal files, were referenced more than once
in <code class="filename">named.conf</code>, it could lead to file
corruption as multiple threads wrote to the same file. This
is now detected when loading <code class="filename">named.conf</code>
and reported as an error. [RT #37172]
</p></li>
<li><p>
When checking for updates to trust anchors listed in
<code class="option">managed-keys</code>, <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span>
now revalidates keys based on the current set of
active trust anchors, without relying on any cached
record of previous validation. [RT #37506]
</p></li>
<li><p>
Large-system tuning
(<span><strong class="command">configure --with-tuning=large</strong></span>) caused
problems on some platforms by setting a socket receive
buffer size that was too large. This is now detected and
corrected at run time. [RT #37187]
</p></li>
<li><p>
When NXDOMAIN redirection is in use, queries for a name
that is present in the redirection zone but a type that
is not present will now return NOERROR instead of NXDOMAIN.
</p></li>
<li><p>
Due to an inadvertent removal of code in the previous
release, when <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> encountered an
authoritative name server which dropped all EDNS queries,
it did not always try plain DNS. This has been corrected.
[RT #37965]
</p></li>
<li><p>
A regression caused nsupdate to use the default recursive servers
rather than the SOA MNAME server when sending the UPDATE.
</p></li>
<li><p>
Adjusted max-recursion-queries to accommodate the smaller
initial packet sizes used in BIND 9.10 and higher when
contacting authoritative servers for the first time.
</p></li>
<li><p>
Built-in "empty" zones did not correctly inherit the
"allow-transfer" ACL from the options or view. [RT #38310]
</p></li>
</ul></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="end_of_life"></a>End of Life</h3></div></div></div>
<p>
The end of life for BIND 9.11 is yet to be determined but
will not be before BIND 9.13.0 has been released for 6 months.
<a href="https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/" target="_top">https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="sect2" lang="en">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="relnotes_thanks"></a>Thank You</h3></div></div></div>
<p>
Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible.
If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in continuing to
make quality open source software, please visit our donations page at
<a href="http://www.isc.org/donate/" target="_top">http://www.isc.org/donate/</a>.
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