H06.05 Release Version Update Compendium

H06.05 Release Version Update Compendium—541761-001

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8 Networking Products

The H06.05 RVU contains new features for this networking product:

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DNS 9.3.0

Domain Name System (DNS) 9.3.0 provides these new features:

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Based on BIND 9.3

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Security features, including:

RFC 2845 Secret Key Transaction Authentication Transaction Signatures for

DNS (TSIG)

RFC 3658 Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Record (RR)

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DNS dynamic updates, including Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR) and NOTIFY

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Support for IPv6 address resolution using A6 Resource Records (RR), DNAME

RRs, and Bitstring labels

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A means to bind a name server with the user-specified TCP/IP process during run

time

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A means to enable applications to choose a resolver configuration file other than

the default

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The flexibility to add multiple sections in the resolv.conf file, where each

section comprises a domain name and set of name servers

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Support for all features available in the previous DNS 4.8.3 without regression

For more information, see the DNS Configuration and Management Manual.

Migration

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While DNS 4.8.3 runs in the Guardian environment, DNS 9.3.0 runs in the OSS

environment. You must start the DNS server from the OSS rather than from the

Guardian environment.

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Configuration files must be modified. For instructions, see the DNS Configuration

and Management Manual.