BIND Version 8.2.x Highlights

BIND 8.2.2 Highlights

• Interoperability with MS-Win2K has been improved.
• Server-side IXFR is now known to work even under high load.
• 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 "transfer-source" and "also-notify".
• $GENERATE now supports more record types, and options.

BIND 8.2.1 Highlights

• Bug fixes, especially to DNSSEC, TSIG, IXFR, and selective forwarding.
• Portability improvements and lint removal.
• Use best SOA rather than first-better when selecting an AXFR master.
• $TTL now accepts symbolic time values (such as "$TTL 1h30m").
• "ndc reload" now accepts a zone argument, for single-zone reloads.
• ndc is better behaved; is verbose or quiet when appropriate.
• Event and error reporting improvements.

BIND 8.2 Highlights

• RFC 2308 (Negative Caching)
• RFC 2181 (DNS Clarifications)
• RFC 2065 (DNS Security)
• TSIG (Transaction SIGnatures)
• Support for multiple virtual name servers
• ndc uses a "control channel" now (no more signals)
• "Split DNS" via zone type "forward".
• Many bug fixes
• Documentation improvements
• Performance enhancements

Bug Reports and Comments

Send bug reports to bind-bugs@isc.org.

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