added section about zone transfer protocol interoperability issues

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Andreas Gustafsson 2001-04-25 17:35:10 +00:00
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3. Interoperability Impact of New Protocol Features
3.1. EDNS0
BIND 9 uses EDNS0 (RFC2671) to advertise its receive buffer size. It
also sets an EDNS flag bit in queries to indicate that it wishes to
receive DNSSEC responses; this flag bit usage is not yet standardized,
@ -126,6 +128,19 @@ authoritative servers use this server will be very slow or fail
completely. We have contacted the manufacturer of the name server in
case, and they are working on a solution.
3.2. Zone transfers
Outgoing zone transfers now use the "many-answers" format by default.
This format is not understood by certain old versions of BIND 4.
You can work around this problem using the option "transfer-format
one-answer;", but since these old versions all have known security
problems, the correct fix is to upgrade the slave servers.
Some BIND 9 users have reported interoperability problems with zone
transfers to Microsoft DNS servers that were solved by specifying
"transfer-format one-answer;", but we are still lacking detailed
information about this issue.
4. Unrestricted Character Set
@ -185,4 +200,4 @@ directing queries for a given domain to a particular set of name
servers.
$Id: migration,v 1.28 2001/03/27 23:59:53 bwelling Exp $
$Id: migration,v 1.29 2001/04/25 17:35:10 gson Exp $