BIND Patch

[Jens Wagner]

> In response to high demand from our users, ISC is releasing a patch for BIND 
> to support the declaration of "delegation-only" zones in caching/recursive 
> name servers.  Briefly, a zone which has been declared "delegation-only" will 
> be effectively limited to containing NS RRs for subdomains, but no actual 
> data outside its apex (for example, its SOA RR and apex NS RRset).  This can 
> be used to filter out "wildcard" or "synthesized" data from NAT boxes or from 
> authoritative name servers whose undelegated (in-zone) data is of no interest. 
I hope this patch does not filter out glue records for nameserver hosts?! 

Best regards, 

Jens Wagner 
CTO Key-Systems GmbH