Approved by: re (gjb)
Notable new features: * Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm keys and signatures in DNSSEC are now supported per RFC 6605. [RT #21918] * Introduces a new tool "dnssec-verify" that validates a signed zone, checking for the correctness of signatures and NSEC/NSEC3 chains. [RT #23673] * BIND now recognizes the TLSA resource record type, created to support IETF DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) [RT #28989] * The new "inline-signing" option, in combination with the "auto-dnssec" option that was introduced in BIND 9.7, allows named to sign zones completely transparently. Approved by: delphij (mentor) MFC after: 3 days Sponsored by: DK Hostmaster A/S
New Features Adds a new configuration option, "check-spf"; valid values are "warn" (default) and "ignore". When set to "warn", checks SPF and TXT records in spf format, warning if either resource record type occurs without a corresponding record of the other resource record type. [RT #33355] Adds support for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) resource records. [RT #23386] Adds support for the EUI48 and EUI64 RR types. [RT #33082] Adds support for the RFC 6742 ILNP record types (NID, LP, L32, and L64). [RT #31836] Feature Changes Changes timing of when slave zones send NOTIFY messages after loading a new copy of the zone. They now send the NOTIFY before writing the zone data to disk. This will result in quicker propagation of updates in multi-level server structures. [RT #27242] "named -V" can now report a source ID string. (This is will be of most interest to developers and troubleshooters). The source ID for ISC's production versions of BIND is defined in the "srcid" file in the build tree and is normally set to the most recent git hash. [RT #31494] Response Policy Zone performance enhancements. New "response-policy" option "min-ns-dots". "nsip" and "nsdname" now enabled by default with RPZ. [RT #32251] Approved by: delphij (mentor) Sponsored by: DK Hostmaster A/S
Security Fixes Prevents named from aborting with a require assertion failure on servers with DNS64 enabled. These crashes might occur as a result of specific queries that are received. New Features * Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm keys and signatures in DNSSEC are now supported per RFC 6605. [RT #21918] Feature Changes * Improves OpenSSL error logging [RT #29932] * nslookup now returns a nonzero exit code when it is unable to get an answer. [RT #29492] Other critical bug fixes are included. Approved by: delphij (mentor) MFC after: 3 days Security: CVE-2012-5688 Sponsored by: DK Hostmaster A/S
This includes a structural change regarding atomic ops. Previously they were enabled on all platforms unless we had knowledge that they did not work. However both work performed by marius@ on sparc64 and the fact that the 9.8.x branch is fussier in this area has demonstrated that this is not a safe approach. So I've modified a patch provided by marius to enable them for i386, amd64, and ia64 only.
All 9.6 users with DNSSEC validation enabled should upgrade to this
version, or the latest version in the 9.7 branch, prior to 2011-03-31
in order to avoid validation failures for names in .COM as described
here:
https://www.isc.org/announcement/bind-9-dnssec-validation-fails-new-ds-record
In addition the fixes for this and other bugs, there are also the
following:
* Various fixes to kerberos support, including GSS-TSIG
* Various fixes to avoid leaking memory, and to problems that could
prevent a clean shutdown of named
lots of new features compared to 9.4.x, including: Full NSEC3 support Automatic zone re-signing New update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self DHCID support. More detailed statistics counters including those supported in BIND 8. Faster ACL processing. Efficient LRU cache-cleaning mechanism. NSID support.
The libbind library is no longer distributed as part of the main BIND package, and we never built it in any case.