BIND 9.7.3 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (761997-001, January 2014)
Table Of Contents
- BIND 9.7.3 Release Notes
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- 1 BIND 9.7.3 release notes
- Announcement
- What is in this version?
- Fully automatic signing of zones by "named"
- Simplified configuration of DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV)
- Simplified configuration of Dynamic DNS, using the "ddns-confgen" command line tool or the "local” update-policy option (As a side effect, this also makes it easier to configure automatic zone re-signing)
- New named option "attach-cache" that allows multiple views to share a single cache
- DNS rebinding attack prevention
- New default values for dnssec-keygen parameters
- Support for RFC 5011 automated trust anchor maintenance
- Smart signing: simplified tools for zone signing and key maintenance
- Named and other binaries can now print out a stack backtrace on assertion failure, to aid in debugging
- Full NSEC3 support
- Automatic zone re-signing
- Default PID file location
- Default TTL with nsupdate
- Randomize server selection on queries
- Specify max sockets on named command line
- GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645)
- More detailed statistics counters
- Faster ACL processing and efficient LRU cache cleaning mechanism
- NSID support (RFC 5001)
- Implementation of "additional section caching"
- Convenient syntax for already existing options like query-source, server statement in rndc.conf
- New acl option “allow-query-cache”
- Additional fields for already existing options like ixfr-from-differences
- Journal file names are configurable
- New control options for rndc like notify, sign, validation and querylog
- Error messages are now more informative
- Scope of some ACL (e.g. allow-update) was changed in named.conf.
- New options to control behavior of DNS NOTIFY
- UNIX domain controls channel are now supported
- Introduction of new zonefile format to enhance loading performance
- Extended post zone load checks. New configuration options for same
- Dig now has new options
- Recursive clients for same query can now be controlled with new configuration options
- Automatic empty zone are now fully covered as mentioned in RFC 1918 zones
- New update-policy fields added
- New algorithms support
- The EDNS response / reply sizes can now be configured
- Defaults have been changed for some configuration and binary options
- DNSSEC validation is set by default and can be unset explicitly
- SPF (Sender Policy Framework) support
- Support for new resource records
- New binaries have been added
- Changed features
- Installing BIND 9.7.3
- Prerequisites
- Installation instructions
- Verifying the BIND 9.7.3 installation
- Unsupported features
- Known problems
- Related information
- Manpages
- Product documentation
- Defects fixed in this release
- Defects fixed in the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system
- HP specific changes
- Defects for which fixes were ported from ISC:
- New deliverables in BIND 9.7.3 and their locations
Related information
The following sections discuss the documentation available for BIND 9.7.3
Manpages
Table 2 (page 16) describes the manpages distributed with the BIND 9.7.3 depot.
Table 2 BIND 9.7.3 Manpage
DescriptionManpage
Utility to translate IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) to the
corresponding IN-ADDR.ARPA or IP6.ARPA names.
arpaname(1)
Tool to generate a key for use by nsupdate and named.ddns-confgen(1)
DNSSEC DS RR generation tool.dnssec-dsfromkey(1)
Tool to set the key timing metadata for a DNSSEC key.dnssec-settime(1)
Tool to generate a file containing random data.genrandom(1)
Fixes HMAC keys generated by older versions of BIND.isc-hmac-fixup(1)
Utility to print zone journal in human-readable form.named-journalprint(1)
Tool to generate an NSEC3 hash based on a set of NSEC3
parameters.
nsec3hash(1)
Tool to set the REVOKED bit on a DNSSEC keydnssec-revoke(1)
Tool to sign the DNSSEC zonednssec-signzone(1)
Tool to generate keys for DNSSECdnssec-keygen(1)
Utility for DNS lookuphost(1)
Program used to translate host table to name server file
format.
hosts_to_na(1M)
Tool to check the syntax of the named configuration filenamed-checkconf(1)
Tool to check the validity of a zonenamed-checkzone(1)
Utility to update the DNS dynamicallynsupdate(1)
Tool to generate the rndc keyrndc-confgen(1)
Utility to control the name server controlrndc(1)
Tool to interrogate DNS serversdig(1M)
Daemon to provide name lookup services to clients that
use the BIND9 lightweight resolver library
lwresd(1M)
Daemon that reads the BIND configuration
file,/etc/named.conf for initial data on resource records,
named(1M)
and listens for queries. The named daemon is the Internet
domain name server, and it requires super user privileges
to execute.
Configuration file for name daemonnamed.conf(4)
Configuration file rndcrndc.conf(4)
The nslookup(1), dig(1M), and host(1) can be used to troubleshoot BIND 9.7.3. For
detailed information and examples of utilities and commands listed in Table 2 (page 16), see the
respective manpages.
16 BIND 9.7.3 release notes