diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index e69de29bb2..5eda97062f 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -0,0 +1,245 @@ + ### +Functional enhancements from prior major releases of BIND 9 + +BIND 9.8.0 + +BIND 9.8.0 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.7 and earlier +releases. New features include: + + * Built-in trust anchor for the root zone, which can be switched on via + "dnssec-validation auto;" + * Support for DNS64. + * Support for response policy zones (RPZ). + * Support for writable DLZ zones. + * Improved ease of configuration of GSS/TSIG for interoperability with + Active Directory + * Support for GOST signing algorithm for DNSSEC. + * Removed RTT Banding from server selection algorithm. + * New "static-stub" zone type. + * Allow configuration of resolver timeouts via "resolver-query-timeout" + option. + * The DLZ "dlopen" driver is now built by default. + * Added a new include file with function typedefs for the DLZ "dlopen" + driver. + * Made "--with-gssapi" default. + * More verbose error reporting from DLZ LDAP. + +BIND 9.7.0 + +BIND 9.7.0 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.6 and earlier +releases. Most are intended to simplify DNSSEC configuration. New features +include: + + * Fully automatic signing of zones by "named". + * Simplified configuration of DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV). + * Simplified configuration of Dynamic DNS, using the "ddns-confgen" + command line tool or the "local" update-policy option. (As a side + effect, this also makes it easier to configure automatic zone + re-signing.) + * New named option "attach-cache" that allows multiple views to share a + single cache. + * DNS rebinding attack prevention. + * New default values for dnssec-keygen parameters. + * Support for RFC 5011 automated trust anchor maintenance + * Smart signing: simplified tools for zone signing and key maintenance. + * The "statistics-channels" option is now available on Windows. + * A new DNSSEC-aware libdns API for use by non-BIND9 applications + * On some platforms, named and other binaries can now print out a stack + backtrace on assertion failure, to aid in debugging. + * A "tools only" installation mode on Windows, which only installs dig, + host, nslookup and nsupdate. + * Improved PKCS#11 support, including Keyper support and explicit + OpenSSL engine selection. + +BIND 9.6.0 + + * Full NSEC3 support + * Automatic zone re-signing + * New update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self + * The BIND 8 resolver library, libbind, has been removed from the BIND 9 + distribution and is now available as a separate download. + * Change the default pid file location from /var/run to /var/run/ + {named,lwresd} for improved chroot/setuid support. + +BIND 9.5.0 + + * GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645). + * DHCID support. + * Experimental http server and statistics support for named via xml. + * More detailed statistics counters including those supported in BIND 8. + * Faster ACL processing. + * Use Doxygen to generate internal documentation. + * Efficient LRU cache-cleaning mechanism. + * NSID support. + +BIND 9.4.0 + + * Implemented "additional section caching (or acache)", an internal + cache framework for additional section content to improve response + performance. Several configuration options were provided to control + the behavior. + * New notify type 'master-only'. Enable notify for master zones only. + * Accept 'notify-source' style syntax for query-source. + * rndc now allows addresses to be set in the server clauses. + * New option "allow-query-cache". This lets "allow-query" be used to + specify the default zone access level rather than having to have every + zone override the global value. "allow-query-cache" can be set at both + the options and view levels. If "allow-query-cache" is not set then + "allow-recursion" is used if set, otherwise "allow-query" is used if + set unless "recursion no;" is set in which case "none;" is used, + otherwise the default (localhost; localnets;) is used. + * rndc: the source address can now be specified. + * ixfr-from-differences now takes master and slave in addition to yes + and no at the options and view levels. + * Allow the journal's name to be changed via named.conf. + * 'rndc notify zone [class [view]]' resend the NOTIFY messages for the + specified zone. + * 'dig +trace' now randomly selects the next servers to try. Report if + there is a bad delegation. + * Improve check-names error messages. + * Make public the function to read a key file, dst_key_read_public(). + * dig now returns the byte count for axfr/ixfr. + * allow-update is now settable at the options / view level. + * named-checkconf now checks the logging configuration. + * host now can turn on memory debugging flags with '-m'. + * Don't send notify messages to self. + * Perform sanity checks on NS records which refer to 'in zone' names. + * New zone option "notify-delay". Specify a minimum delay between sets + of NOTIFY messages. + * Extend adjusting TTL warning messages. + * Named and named-checkzone can now both check for non-terminal wildcard + records. + * "rndc freeze/thaw" now freezes/thaws all zones. + * named-checkconf now check acls to verify that they only refer to + existing acls. + * The server syntax has been extended to support a range of servers. + * Report differences between hints and real NS rrset and associated + address records. + * Preserve the case of domain names in rdata during zone transfers. + * Restructured the data locking framework using architecture dependent + atomic operations (when available), improving response performance on + multi-processor machines significantly. x86, x86_64, alpha, powerpc, + and mips are currently supported. + * UNIX domain controls are now supported. + * Add support for additional zone file formats for improving loading + performance. The masterfile-format option in named.conf can be used to + specify a non-default format. A separate command named-compilezone was + provided to generate zone files in the new format. Additionally, the + -I and -O options for dnssec-signzone specify the input and output + formats. + * dnssec-signzone can now randomize signature end times (dnssec-signzone + -j jitter). + * Add support for CH A record. + * Add additional zone data constancy checks. named-checkzone has + extended checking of NS, MX and SRV record and the hosts they + reference. named has extended post zone load checks. New zone options: + check-mx and integrity-check. + * edns-udp-size can now be overridden on a per server basis. + * dig can now specify the EDNS version when making a query. + * Added framework for handling multiple EDNS versions. + * Additional memory debugging support to track size and mctx arguments. + * Detect duplicates of UDP queries we are recursing on and drop them. + New stats category "duplicates". + * "USE INTERNAL MALLOC" is now runtime selectable. + * The lame cache is now done on a basis as some servers only appear to + be lame for certain query types. + * Limit the number of recursive clients that can be waiting for a single + query () to resolve. New options clients-per-query and + max-clients-per-query. + * dig: report the number of extra bytes still left in the packet after + processing all the records. + * Support for IPSECKEY rdata type. + * Raise the UDP recieve buffer size to 32k if it is less than 32k. + * x86 and x86_64 now have seperate atomic locking implementations. + * named-checkconf now validates update-policy entries. + * Attempt to make the amount of work performed in a iteration self + tuning. The covers nodes clean from the cache per iteration, nodes + written to disk when rewriting a master file and nodes destroyed per + iteration when destroying a zone or a cache. + * ISC string copy API. + * Automatic empty zone creation for D.F.IP6.ARPA and friends. Note: RFC + 1918 zones are not yet covered by this but are likely to be in a + future release. + * New options: empty-server, empty-contact, empty-zones-enable and + disable-empty-zone. + * dig now has a '-q queryname' and '+showsearch' options. + * host/nslookup now continue (default)/fail on SERVFAIL. + * dig now warns if 'RA' is not set in the answer when 'RD' was set in + the query. host/nslookup skip servers that fail to set 'RA' when 'RD' + is set unless a server is explicitly set. + * Integrate contibuted DLZ code into named. + * Integrate contibuted IDN code from JPNIC. + * libbind: corresponds to that from BIND 8.4.7. + +BIND 9.3.0 + + * DNSSEC is now DS based (RFC 3658). + * DNSSEC lookaside validation. + * check-names is now implemented. + * rrset-order is more complete. + * IPv4/IPv6 transition support, dual-stack-servers. + * IXFR deltas can now be generated when loading master files, + ixfr-from-differences. + * It is now possible to specify the size of a journal, max-journal-size. + * It is now possible to define a named set of master servers to be used + in masters clause, masters. + * The advertised EDNS UDP size can now be set, edns-udp-size. + * allow-v6-synthesis has been obsoleted. + * Zones containing MD and MF will now be rejected. + * dig, nslookup name. now report "Not Implemented" as NOTIMP rather than + NOTIMPL. This will have impact on scripts that are looking for + NOTIMPL. + * libbind: corresponds to that from BIND 8.4.5. + +BIND 9.2.0 + + * The size of the cache can now be limited using the "max-cache-size" + option. + * The server can now automatically convert RFC1886-style recursive + lookup requests into RFC2874-style lookups, when enabled using the new + option "allow-v6-synthesis". This allows stub resolvers that support + AAAA records but not A6 record chains or binary labels to perform + lookups in domains that make use of these IPv6 DNS features. + * Performance has been improved. + * The man pages now use the more portable "man" macros rather than the + "mandoc" macros, and are installed by "make install". + * The named.conf parser has been completely rewritten. It now supports + "include" directives in more places such as inside "view" statements, + and it no longer has any reserved words. + * The "rndc status" command is now implemented. + * rndc can now be configured automatically. + * A BIND 8 compatible stub resolver library is now included in lib/bind. + * OpenSSL has been removed from the distribution. This means that to use + DNSSEC, OpenSSL must be installed and the --with-openssl option must + be supplied to configure. This does not apply to the use of TSIG, + which does not require OpenSSL. + * The source distribution now builds on Windows. See win32utils/ + readme1.txt and win32utils/win32-build.txt for details. + * This distribution also includes a new lightweight stub resolver + library and associated resolver daemon that fully support forward and + reverse lookups of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This library is + considered experimental and is not a complete replacement for the BIND + 8 resolver library. Applications that use the BIND 8 res_* functions + to perform DNS lookups or dynamic updates still need to be linked + against the BIND 8 libraries. For DNS lookups, they can also use the + new "getrrsetbyname()" API. + * BIND 9.2 is capable of acting as an authoritative server for DNSSEC + secured zones. This functionality is believed to be stable and + complete except for lacking support for verifications involving + wildcard records in secure zones. + * When acting as a caching server, BIND 9.2 can be configured to perform + DNSSEC secure resolution on behalf of its clients. This part of the + DNSSEC implementation is still considered experimental. For detailed + information about the state of the DNSSEC implementation, see the file + doc/misc/dnssec. + diff --git a/OPTIONS b/OPTIONS index e69de29bb2..5660c5b7b7 100644 --- a/OPTIONS +++ b/OPTIONS @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + +Setting the STD_CDEFINES environment variable before running configure can +be used to enable certain compile-time options that are not explicitly +defined in configure. + +Some of these settings are: + +Setting Description + Don't ovewrite memory when allocating or freeing +-DISC_MEM_FILL=0 it; this improves performance but makes + debugging more difficult. + Don't track memory allocations by file and line +-DISC_MEM_TRACKLINES=0 number; this improves performance but makes + debugging more difficult. +-DISC_FACILITY=LOG_LOCAL0 Change the default syslog facility for named +-DNS_CLIENT_DROPPORT=0 Disable dropping queries from particular + well-known ports: +-DCHECK_SIBLING=0 Don't check sibling glue in named-checkzone +-DCHECK_LOCAL=0 Don't check out-of-zone addresses in + named-checkzone +-DNS_RUN_PID_DIR=0 Create default PID files in ${localstatedir}/run + rather than ${localstatedir}/run/{named,lwresd}/ + Enable DNSSEC signature chasing support in dig. +-DDIG_SIGCHASE=1 (Note: This feature is deprecated. Use delv + instead.) + diff --git a/README b/README index e69de29bb2..53f9e0f017 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,439 @@ + # +BIND 9 + +Contents + + 1. Introduction + 2. Reporting bugs and getting help + 3. Contributing to BIND + 4. BIND 9.9 features + 5. Building BIND + 6. Compile-time options + 7. Automated testing + 8. Documentation + 9. Change log +10. Acknowledgments + +Introduction + +BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a complete, highly portable +implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocol. + +The BIND name server, named, is able to serve as an authoritative name +server, recursive resolver, DNS forwarder, or all three simultaneously. It +implements views for split-horizon DNS, automatic DNSSEC zone signing and +key management, catalog zones to facilitate provisioning of zone data +throughout a name server constellation, response policy zones (RPZ) to +protect clients from malicious data, response rate limiting (RRL) and +recursive query limits to reduce distributed denial of service attacks, +and many other advanced DNS features. BIND also includes a suite of +administrative tools, including the dig and delv DNS lookup tools, +nsupdate for dynamic DNS zone updates, rndc for remote name server +administration, and more. + +BIND 9 is a complete re-write of the BIND architecture that was used in +versions 4 and 8. Internet Systems Consortium (https://www.isc.org), a 501 +(c)(3) public benefit corporation dedicated to providing software and +services in support of the Internet infrastructure, developed BIND 9 and +is responsible for its ongoing maintenance and improvement. BIND is open +source software licenced under the terms of the Mozilla Public License, +version 2.0. + +For a summary of features introduced in past major releases of BIND, see +the file HISTORY. + +For a detailed list of changes made throughout the history of BIND 9, see +the file CHANGES. See below for details on the CHANGES file format. + +For up-to-date release notes and errata, see http://www.isc.org/software/ +bind9/releasenotes + +Reporting bugs and getting help + +Please report assertion failure errors and suspected security issues to +security-officer@isc.org. + +General bug reports can be sent to bind9-bugs@isc.org. + +Feature requests can be sent to bind-suggest@isc.org. + +Please note that, while ISC's ticketing system is not currently publicly +readable, this may change in the future. Please do not include information +in bug reports that you consider to be confidential. For example, when +sending the contents of your configuration file, it is advisable to +obscure key secrets; this can be done automatically by using +named-checkconf -px. + +Professional support and training for BIND are available from ISC at +https://www.isc.org/support. + +To join the BIND Users mailing list, or view the archives, visit https:// +lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users. + +If you're planning on making changes to the BIND 9 source code, you may +also want to join the BIND Workers mailing list, at https://lists.isc.org/ +mailman/listinfo/bind-workers. + +Contributing to BIND + +A public git repository for BIND is maintained at http://www.isc.org/git/, +and also on Github at https://github.com/isc-projects. + +Information for BIND contributors can be found in the following files: - +General information: doc/dev/contrib.md - BIND 9 code style: doc/dev/ +style.md - BIND architecture and developer guide: doc/dev/dev.md + +Patches for BIND may be submitted either as Github pull requests or via +email. When submitting a patch via email, please prepend the subject +header with "[PATCH]" so it will be easier for us to find. If your patch +introduces a new feature in BIND, please submit it to bind-suggest@isc.org +; if it fixes a bug, please submit it to bind9-bugs@isc.org. + +BIND 9.9 features + +BIND 9.9.0 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.8 and earlier +releases. New features include: + + * Inline signing, allowing automatic DNSSEC signing of master zones + without modification of the zonefile, or "bump in the wire" signing in + slaves. + * NXDOMAIN redirection. + * New rndc flushtree command clears all data under a given name from the + DNS cache. + * New rndc sync command dumps pending changes in a dynamic zone to disk + without a freeze/thaw cycle. + * New rndc signing command displays or clears signing status records in + auto-dnssec zones. + * NSEC3 parameters for auto-dnssec zones can now be set prior to + signing, eliminating the need to initially sign with NSEC. + * Startup time improvements on large authoritative servers. + * Slave zones are now saved in raw format by default. + * Several improvements to response policy zones (RPZ). + * Improved hardware scalability by using multiple threads to listen for + queries and using finer-grained client locking + * The also-notify option now takes the same syntax as masters, so it can + used named masterlists and TSIG keys. + * dnssec-signzone -D writes an output file containing only DNSSEC data, + which can be included by the primary zone file. + * dnssec-signzone -R forces removal of signatures that are not expired + but were created by a key which no longer exists. + * dnssec-signzone -X allows a separate expiration date to be specified + for DNSKEY signatures from other signatures. + * New -L option to dnssec-keygen, dnssec-settime, and + dnssec-keyfromlabel sets the default TTL for the key. + * dnssec-dsfromkey now supports reading from standard input, to make it + easier to convert DNSKEY to DS. + * RFC 1918 reverse zones have been added to the empty-zones table per + RFC + +6303. + + * Dynamic updates can now optionally set the zone's SOA serial number to + the current UNIX time. + * DLZ modules can now retrieve the source IP address of the querying + client. + * request-ixfr option can now be set at the per-zone level. + * dig +rrcomments turns on comments about DNSKEY records, indicating + their key ID, algorithm and function + * Simplified nsupdate syntax and added readline support + +BIND 9.9.1 + +BIND 9.9.1 is a maintenance release. + +BIND 9.9.2 + +BIND 9.9.2 is a maintenance release, and addresses the security flaw +described in CVE-2012-4244. + +BIND 9.9.3 + +BIND 9.9.3 is a maintenance release and addresses the security flaws +described in CVE-2012-5688, CVE-2012-5689 and CVE-2013-2266. + +BIND 9.9.4 + +BIND 9.9.4 is a maintenance release, and addresses the security flaws +described in CVE-2013-3919 and CVE-2013-4854. It also introduces DNS +Response Rate Limiting (DNS RRL) as a compile-time option. To use this +feature, configure with the --enable-rrl option. + +BIND 9.9.5 + +BIND 9.9.5 is a maintenance release, and addresses the security flaws +described in CVE-2013-6320 and CVE-2014-0591. It also includes the +following functional enhancements: + + * named now preserves the capitalization of names when responding to + queries. + * new dnssec-importkey command allows the use of offline DNSSEC keys + with automatic DNSKEY management. + * When re-signing a zone, the new dnssec-signzone -Q option drops + signatures from keys that are still published but are no longer + active. + * named-checkconf -px will print the contents of configuration files + with the shared secrets obscured, making it easier to share + configuration (e.g. when submitting a bug report) without revealing + private information. + +BIND 9.9.6 + +BIND 9.9.6 is a maintenance release, and also includes the following new +functionality. + + * The former behavior with respect to capitalization of names (prior to + BIND 9.9.5) can be restored for specific clients via the new + no-case-compress ACL. + +BIND 9.9.7 + +BIND 9.9.7 is a maintenance release, and addresses the security flaws +described in CVE-2014-8500 and CVE-2015-1349. + +BIND 9.9.8 + +BIND 9.9.8 is a maintenance release, and addresses the security flaws +described in CVE-2015-4620, CVE-2015-5477, CVE-2015-5722, and +CVE-2015-5986. + +It also makes the following new features available via a compile-time +option: + + * New "fetchlimit" quotas are now available for the use of recursive + resolvers that are are under high query load for domains whose + authoritative servers are nonresponsive or are experiencing a denial + of service attack. + + fetches-per-server limits the number of simultaneous queries that + can be sent to any single authoritative server. The configured + value is a starting point; it is automatically adjusted downward + if the server is partially or completely non-responsive. The + algorithm used to adjust the quota can be configured via the + fetch-quota-params option. + + fetches-per-zone limits the number of simultaneous queries that + can be sent for names within a single domain. (Note: Unlike + fetches-per-server, this value is not self-tuning.) + + New stats counters have been added to count queries spilled due to + these quotas. NOTE: These options are NOT built in by default; use + configure --enable-fetchlimit to enable them. + +BIND 9.9.9 + +BIND 9.9.9 is a maintenance release and addresses bugs found in BIND 9.9.8 +and earlier, as well as the security flaws described in CVE-2015-8000, +CVE-2015-8461, CVE-2015-8704, CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286, CVE-2016-2775 +and CVE-2016-2776. + +BIND 9.9.10 + +BIND 9.9.10 is a maintenance release and addresses the security flaws +disclosed in CVE-2016-2775, CVE-2016-2776, CVE-2016-6170, CVE-2016-8864, +CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444, CVE-2017-3135, CVE-2017-3136, +CVE-2017-3137, and CVE-2017-3138. + +Building BIND + +BIND requires a UNIX or Linux system with an ANSI C compiler, basic POSIX +support, and a 64-bit integer type. Successful builds have been observed +on many versions of Linux and UNIX, including RedHat, Fedora, Debian, +Ubuntu, SuSE, Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, +HP-UX, AIX, SCO OpenServer, and OpenWRT. + +BIND is also available for Windows XP, 2003, 2008, and higher. See +win32utils/readme1st.txt for details on building for Windows systems. + +To build on a UNIX or Linux system, use: + + $ ./configure + $ make + +If you're planning on making changes to the BIND 9 source, you should run +make depend. If you're using Emacs, you might find make tags helpful. + +Several environment variables that can be set before running configure +will affect compilation: + +Variable Description +CC The C compiler to use. configure tries to figure out the + right one for supported systems. + C compiler flags. Defaults to include -g and/or -O2 as +CFLAGS supported by the compiler. Please include '-g' if you need + to set CFLAGS. + System header file directories. Can be used to specify +STD_CINCLUDES where add-on thread or IPv6 support is, for example. + Defaults to empty string. + Any additional preprocessor symbols you want defined. +STD_CDEFINES Defaults to empty string. For a list of possible settings, + see the file OPTIONS. +LDFLAGS Linker flags. Defaults to empty string. +BUILD_CC Needed when cross-compiling: the native C compiler to use + when building for the target system. +BUILD_CFLAGS Optional, used for cross-compiling +BUILD_CPPFLAGS +BUILD_LDFLAGS +BUILD_LIBS + +Compile-time options + +To see a full list of configuration options, run configure --help. + +On most platforms, BIND 9 is built with multithreading support, allowing +it to take advantage of multiple CPUs. You can configure this by +specifying --enable-threads or --disable-threads on the configure command +line. The default is to enable threads, except on some older operating +systems on which threads are known to have had problems in the past. +(Note: Prior to BIND 9.10, the default was to disable threads on Linux +systems; this has now been reversed. On Linux systems, the threaded build +is known to change BIND's behavior with respect to file permissions; it +may be necessary to specify a user with the -u option when running named.) + +To build shared libraries, specify --with-libtool on the configure command +line. + +Certain compiled-in constants and default settings can be increased to +values better suited to large servers with abundant memory resources (e.g, +64-bit servers with 12G or more of memory) by specifying --with-tuning= +large on the configure command line. This can improve performance on big +servers, but will consume more memory and may degrade performance on +smaller systems. + +For the server to support DNSSEC, you need to build it with crypto +support. To use OpenSSL, you should have OpenSSL 1.0.2e or newer +installed. If the OpenSSL library is installed in a nonstandard location, +specify the prefix using "--with-openssl=/prefix" on the configure command +line. To use a PKCS#11 hardware service module for cryptographic +operations, specify the path to the PKCS#11 provider library using +"--with-pkcs11=/prefix", and configure BIND with "--enable-native-pkcs11". + +To support the HTTP statistics channel, the server must be linked with +libxml2 http://xmlsoft.org If this is installed at a nonstandard location, +specify the prefix using --with-libxml2=/prefix. + +Python requires the 'argparse' module to be available. 'argparse' is a +standard module as of Python 2.7 and Python 3.2. + +On some platforms it is necessary to explicitly request large file support +to handle files bigger than 2GB. This can be done by using +--enable-largefile on the configure command line. + +Support for the "fixed" rrset-order option can be enabled or disabled by +specifying --enable-fixed-rrset or --disable-fixed-rrset on the configure +command line. By default, fixed rrset-order is disabled to reduce memory +footprint. + +If your operating system has integrated support for IPv6, it will be used +automatically. If you have installed KAME IPv6 separately, use --with-kame +[=PATH] to specify its location. + +make install will install named and the various BIND 9 libraries. By +default, installation is into /usr/local, but this can be changed with the +--prefix option when running configure. + +You may specify the option --sysconfdir to set the directory where +configuration files like named.conf go by default, and --localstatedir to +set the default parent directory of run/named.pid. For backwards +compatibility with BIND 8, --sysconfdir defaults to /etc and +--localstatedir defaults to /var if no --prefix option is given. If there +is a --prefix option, sysconfdir defaults to $prefix/etc and localstatedir +defaults to $prefix/var. + +Automated testing + +A system test suite can be run with make test. The system tests require +you to configure a set of virtual IP addresses on your system (this allows +multiple servers to run locally and communicate with one another). These +IP addresses can be configured by by running the script bin/tests/system/ +ifconfig.sh up as root. + +Some tests require Perl and the Net::DNS and/or IO::Socket::INET6 modules, +and will be skipped if these are not available. Some tests require Python +and the 'dnspython' module and will be skipped if these are not available. +See bin/tests/system/README for further details. + +Unit tests are implemented using Automated Testing Framework (ATF). To run +them, use configure --with-atf, then run make test or make unit. + +Documentation + +The BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual is included with the source +distribution, in DocBook XML, HTML and PDF format, in the doc/arm +directory. + +Some of the programs in the BIND 9 distribution have man pages in their +directories. In particular, the command line options of named are +documented in bin/named/named.8. + +Frequently (and not-so-frequently) asked questions and their answers can +be found in the ISC Knowledge Base at https://kb.isc.org. + +Additional information on various subjects can be found in other README +files throughout the source tree. + +Change log + +A detailed list of all changes that have been made throughout the +development BIND 9 is included in the file CHANGES, with the most recent +changes listed first. Change notes include tags indicating the category of +the change that was made; these categories are: + +Category Description +[func] New feature +[bug] General bug fix +[security] Fix for a significant security flaw +[experimental] Used for new features when the syntax or other aspects of + the design are still in flux and may change +[port] Portability enhancement +[maint] Updates to built-in data such as root server addresses and + keys +[tuning] Changes to built-in configuration defaults and constants to + improve performance +[performance] Other changes to improve server performance +[protocol] Updates to the DNS protocol such as new RR types +[test] Changes to the automatic tests, not affecting server + functionality +[cleanup] Minor corrections and refactoring +[doc] Documentation +[contrib] Changes to the contributed tools and libraries in the + 'contrib' subdirectory + Used in the master development branch to reserve change +[placeholder] numbers for use in other branches, e.g. when fixing a bug + that only exists in older releases + +In general, [func] and [experimental] tags will only appear in new-feature +releases (i.e., those with version numbers ending in zero). Some new +functionality may be backported to older releases on a case-by-case basis. +All other change types may be applied to all currently-supported releases. + +Acknowledgments + + * The original development of BIND 9 was underwritten by the following + organizations: + + Sun Microsystems, Inc. + Hewlett Packard + Compaq Computer Corporation + IBM + Process Software Corporation + Silicon Graphics, Inc. + Network Associates, Inc. + U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency + USENIX Association + Stichting NLnet - NLnet Foundation + Nominum, Inc. + + * This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for + use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. http://www.OpenSSL.org/ + * This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young + (eay@cryptsoft.com) + * This product includes software written by Tim Hudson + (tjh@cryptsoft.com) +