BIND 8.2.2 (T4B) is available for general testing
Peter Bunclark
psb at ast.cam.ac.uk
Fri Sep 24 13:00:29 UTC 1999
Paul A Vixie wrote:
> Confidence: moderate. This is running on part of F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and
> on all of our local production servers. The only reasons it's not a full
> release candidate are that IXFR is still disabled and we're still tinkering
> with the NT support and with the UPDATE api.
>
> Highlights vs. BIND 8.2.1:
>
> Preliminary support for Windows/NT (thanks to BayNetworks).
> More fixes, especially to DNSSEC, TSIG, IXFR, and selective forwarding.
> More portability improvements and lint removal (A/UX 3.1.1, SCO 5.0).
> Better NOTIFY behaviour, especially with large update volume.
> Better UPDATE handling, including SRV RR support and RFC compliance.
> Fix for "ndc reload ZONENAME" (specific zone reload) problems.
> Fix for round robin when multiple CNAMEs are in use.
> New "min-roots" (MINROOTS) and "serial-queries" (MAXQSERIAL) options.
> Log files are no longer auto-rotated every time the server starts up.
> New "ndc reconfig" command only finds new/deleted zones, no stat()ing.
> New global options for "update-source" and "also-notify".
> $GENERATE now supports more record types, and options.
>
> the distribution files are:
>
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-src.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-doc.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-contrib.tar.gz
>
> the pgp signature files are:
>
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-src.tar.gz.asc
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-doc.tar.gz.asc
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/testing/t4b/bind-contrib.tar.gz.asc
>
> the md5 checksums are:
In order to get it to build on Solaris 7 IPv6_Prototype-01 I had
to add
#include <sys/sockio.h>
to gethostent.c
so it could find SIOCGIFCONF and friends.
Peter.
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