From d977bc350499c07fc36d150849edde4ceb70b0f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Hunt Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:09:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [master] reorder README, add catalog zones and minimal-any --- README | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index d1df141c85..d338698f93 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -56,8 +56,12 @@ BIND 9.11.0 BIND 9.11.0 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.10 and earlier releases. New features include: - - Added nsip-wait-recurse switch to rpz. - - Added python RNDC module. + - Added support for Catalog Zones, a new method for provisioning + servers: a list of zones to be served is stored in a DNS zone, + along with their configuration parameters. Changes to the + catalog zone are propagated to slaves via normal AXFR/IXFR, + whereupon the zones that are listed in it are automatically + added, deleted or reconfigured. - Added support for "dnstap", a fast and flexible method of capturing and logging DNS traffic. - Added support for "dyndb", a new API for loading zone data @@ -91,6 +95,12 @@ BIND 9.11.0 (defaulting to 1 second, with an upper limit of 30). This can reduce the frequency of retries when a query is persistently failing. + - Added an "nsip-wait-recurse" switch to RPZ. This causes NSIP + rules to be skipped if a name server IP address isn't in the + cache yet; the address will be looked up and the rule will be + applied on future queries. + - Added a Python RNDC module. This allows multiple commands to + sent over a persistent RNDC channel, which saves time. - The "controls" block in named.conf can now grant read-only "rndc" access to specified clients or keys. Read-only clients could, for example, check "rndc status" but could not @@ -135,6 +145,9 @@ BIND 9.11.0 and deletion times of CDS and CDNSKEY parent-synchronization records. Both named and dnssec-signzone can now publish and remove these records at the scheduled times. + - A new "minimal-any" option reduces the size of UDP responses + for query type ANY by returning a single arbitrarily selected + RRset instead of all RRsets. - A new "masterfile-style" zone option controls the formatting of text zone files: When set to "full", a zone file is dumped in single-line-per-record format.