BIND 9.7.1-P1 planned to address issues in BIND 9.7.0 and 9.7.1

[Chris Thompson]

On Jun 29 2010, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

>On 28.06.10 13:31, Larissa Shapiro wrote:
>> We have received reports that BIND 9.7.0 and 9.7.1 are failing to
>> resolve certain zones. These zones are resolved correctly by earlier
>> versions of BIND.
>> 
>> BIND 9.7.0 and 9.7.1 follows the DNS protocol more strictly than
>> earlier versions.  We felt that this change created added safety for
>> certain types of responses from potentially misconfigured servers, but
>> now believe it is hurting more than helping.
>> 
>> We are planning a patch release to revert to previous behavior.  We
>> hope to get BIND 9.7.1-P1 released to our forum members this week and
>> to the public shortly after.  This patch will also include an unrelated
>> compatibility fix for responses from some non-BIND servers.
>
>What were those issues?
>Will this change be configurable?

Can I echo Matus' questions (especially the first) here? It would be
very helpful for those of us contemplating a move from BIND 9.6 to 9.7
to know more about this.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk