BIND 9.9.4 is now available. Do we still need RRL & RPZ patches?

[Brian Conry]

On 09/19/2013 07:36 PM, jen142 at promessage.com wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.

You're welcome.  Unfortunately, sometimes the reply suffers from the
quickness.

> The fact that at 
> 
>   http://ss.vix.su/~vjs/rrlrpz.html
> 
> There was a patch for 9.9.4rc1
> 
>   Multiple Zone Response Policy Zone (RPZ2) Speed Improvement with
>   Response Rate Limiting (RRL)
>     BIND9 9.9.4rc1
>       file rpz2+rl-9.9.4rc1.patch
>         version 9.9.4rc1-rpz2+rl.13214.22Version 9.9.4rc1 includes RRL
>         with ./configure --enable-rrl so this patch only affects RPZ.
> 
> seemed to me to suggest that RRL was going to be included, but not RPZ.

In my haste to reply I missed the vix.su 9.9.4 patchsets and forgot that
some of the features were added to 9.10.0 (which is currently unreleased
pre-alpha) instead of 9.9.4.

> Oh, and just to be sure, RPZ*2* isn't different than 'just RPZ' included
> in BIND, is it?

I have to confess that I do not know what differentiates RPZ2 from "just
RPZ", especially considering the fact that the RPZ2 link on that page
points to the RPZ category in our knowledge base...

I can confirm that those patches do include several minor functionality
differences in addition to potentially significant performance improvements.

I apologize for the confusion.

Thanks,
Brian