BIND 8.2.2 (T4B) is available for general testing

[Peter Bunclark]

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.